Steven Peikin, Head of S&C’s Securities & Commodities Investigations Practice, was named to Securities Docket’s “Enforcement Elite” list for 2024. The list honors the best securities enforcement defense counsel in the industry.
Steve is the only practitioner in the country to have held what are widely considered to be the two most important government positions in securities enforcement: Chief of the Securities Fraud Unit in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and Co-Director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement.
Steve is a go-to lawyer for handling a wide variety of high-profile securities investigation, including those relating to digital assets, market manipulation, insider trading, issuer disclosure and accounting, private funds matters. He also has served for more than a decade as Adjunct Professor at NYU Law School, where he teaches on the criminal enforcement of the Securities and Commodities Laws.