Hagens Berman represents successful whistleblowers under the SEC whistleblower program—we beat the odds for our clients, several of whom have received maximum awards from the SEC.

99% percent of SEC whistleblower complaints result in no award to whistleblowers–our attorneys represent the one percent that catch the SEC’s attention.

Hagens Berman’s legal team represented SEC whistleblowers even before the first day that the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program launched in 2011. In fact, our law firm’s first whistleblower case twice became front-page news in The Wall Street Journal and resulted in the largest fine ever levied against a financial exchange. Our SEC whistleblower client was deservedly awarded. Hagens Berman’s attorneys have since represented dozens of SEC whistleblowers, including additional record-setting cases. 

Hagens Berman represents dozens of current whistleblowers from around the world with cases under investigation by SEC Enforcement Division offices across the country.

Unlike most SEC whistleblower law practices, many of which have literally no experience litigating securities cases or financial fraud cases at all, Hagens Berman is one of a handful of the top plaintiffs’ and securities litigation firms in the world, and we have been among the most successful and respected in representing SEC whistleblowers.

TYPES OF SEC WHISTLEBLOWER FRAUD

The SEC has taken action on our whistleblower complaints in numerous areas of federal securities law. These include cases involving material misrepresentations and omissions in financial filings; accounting fraud; insider trading; market manipulation; market structure and trading violations; pricing fraud; offering fraud; foreign bribery; investment fraud; and various other reporting violations reported as fraud by our whistleblower clients.

SELECTING AN SEC LAW FIRM FOR YOUR WHISTLEBLOWER CLAIM

The responsibilities of an SEC whistleblower are vast, and the risks faced by a whistleblower are significant. Anyone considering bringing a whistleblower case to the SEC needs to know the complete set of legal and other ramifications involved, including what protections are available and what the SEC will and will not do to protect you.

The SEC has limited resources and can only pursue whistleblower claims that are actionable, timely, clearly reasoned and well-presented. In order to properly present a fraud claim to the SEC, a whistleblower needs to make sure that the SEC whistleblower law firm retained has a well-established reputation of success in securities law and is known as an expert in in representing whistleblowers before the SEC.

Hagens Berman’s SEC whistleblower attorneys have:

  • Successfully litigated hundreds of cases against America’s largest companies for almost 30 years.
  • Experience in litigating securities and financial fraud cases against such giants as Visa, MasterCard, Charles Schwab, NYSE, Cargill, entities implicated by the Madoff scandal, and other large public and private companies, including cases involving accounting fraud and complex financial instruments and investments, such as mortgage-backed securities.
  • One of the few firms to represent several successful SEC whistleblowers around the world who have received maximum awards for their complaints. 
  • We have secured billions of dollars in settlements and fines often working with the government and regulators for nearly 30 years, often retained by those governments, helping our firm establish the credibility necessary to bring important cases to the SEC.
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