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Weil takes litigator from US Attorney's office

14 Feb 2012

First name: Christopher

Surname: Garcia

Practice area: Litigation

Firm/company (from): Government

Firm/company (to): Weil Gotshal & Manges

City (from): New York

City (to): New York

Country (from): USA

Country (to): USA

Region: North America




Weil Gotshal & Manges has further strengthened its financial sector practice by recruiting a ranking official of the US Attorney’s office in New York.
 
Christopher Garcia joins Weil's litigation department having previously acted as chief of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force at the US Attorney’s office.
 
During his tenure at the height of the financial crisis, Garcia played a critical role in prosecuting some of the most notorious cases ever to shake the financial sector. Targets of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force included Bernard Madoff’s ponzi scheme as well as the insider trading scandal involving Raj Rajaratnam’s hedge fund, Galleon Group. Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison in June 2009. Rajaratnam received an 11-year sentence in October of last year.
 
Before joining the US Attorney’s office, Garcia served as an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell.
 
Garcia’s move to Weil comes just days after the firm appointed Heath Tarbert, a former special counsel to the US Senate Banking Committee and a former presidential advisor, as a partner.
   
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