Stefanos Touzos

Stefanos Touzos is a litigator specializing in white collar defense and corporate investigations. He regularly represents individuals and companies in internal investigations, securities enforcement and regulatory matters, and white collar criminal defense. Stefanos frequently counsels clients with respect to government investigations, including those by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the United States Department of Justice, and the New York State Attorney General’s Office.

He also regularly represents financial institutions, corporations, and government entities in connection with complex commercial cases and bankruptcy litigation, including representing the Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority in Title III restructuring proceedings in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy.

Stefanos also devotes significant time to the Firm’s pro bono efforts. His recent pro bono work includes representing an individual prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York involving alleged drug-related violations of federal supervised release and representing a Guatemalan refugee applying for asylum to flee violence and death threats based on her membership to a persecuted social group.

Experience:

• Representing a major financial institution in multiple government investigations of foreign bribery relating to hiring, training, and entertainment practices.
• Representing individuals in criminal antitrust investigations conducted by the United States Department of Justice.
• Representing the Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority in Title III restructuring proceedings in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico’s unprecedented bankruptcy.
• Representing a financial institution in connection with an NYAG and SEC investigation into allegations of fraud involving a private exchange for trading securities.
• Representing pro bono clients in United States non-immigrant status petitions.
• Represented individual prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York involving alleged drug-related violations of federal supervised release.
• Represented a large company in an SEC accounting inquiry.
• Represented a financial institution in connection with an investigation into its brokers’ compliance with securities laws.
• Represented Guatemalan refugee applying for asylum to flee violence and death threats based on her membership to a persecuted social group.

Admissions:

• New York
• US District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York

Education:

• New York University, J.D.: Senior Executive Editor, NYU Journal of Law & Liberty
• College of the Holy Cross, B.A., Philosophy: cum laude