Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, INDUSTRY NEWS: Litigators Joseph Armao and Paul Alfieri join Reed Smith in New York, (Sep 13, 2013)
Organizations Mentioned:ITT Corp. | Linklaters, LLP | New York University | O'Melveny & Myers, LLP | Reed Smith, LLP | Tufts University | U.S. Department of Justice | White & Case, LLP
High profile government investigations and litigation attorneys Joseph P. Armao and Paul Alfieri have joined Reed Smith as partners in the New York office, according to a recent announcement. The two come from Linklaters LLP, where Armao was Head of U.S. Litigation in the firm’s New York office.
A veteran courtroom advocate, Armao has acted as lead counsel in white-collar and government regulatory proceedings. He has handled international price fixing investigations across a full spectrum of industries, complex accounting and securities fraud matters, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) cases, and the enforcement of U.S. economic sanctions.
Alfieri, who has worked closely with Armao for many years, is highly regarded in FCPA and antitrust investigations, as well as accounting and securities fraud matters. Over the years, he has handled major shareholder securities class actions and derivative suits, and price fixing litigation, before various federal and state courts.
A sampling of Armao’s and Alfieri’s matters include their representation of The Yokohama Rubber Company, Ltd. in a global investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice, European Commission, UK Office of Fair Trading, and other competition agencies around the world, into an alleged price-fixing cartel involving marine products. They have acted as lead counsel for ITT Corporation in a joint Department of Justice and SEC investigation into allegations of violations of the FCPA.
Prior to joining Linklaters, Armao was a partner at White & Case from 2002 to 2006. Before that, from 1994 to 2002, he was a partner at Squadron, Elenoff, Plesent & Sheinfeld LLP, where he met, and began his long collaboration with, Alfieri. He is a graduate of Columbia University (B.A.), University of Oxford (M.A.), and Harvard Law School (J.D.).
Before Linklaters, Alfieri was at Mudge Rose and Webster & Sheffield from 1990 to 1994; with O’Melveny & Myers from 1994 to 2001; with Elenoff, Plesent & Sheinfeld from 2001 to 2002; and with White & Case from 2002 to 2006. He is a graduate of Tufts University (B.A.) and New York University School of Law (J.D.).
Reed Smith is a global law firm with more than 1,800 lawyers in 25 offices throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
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