Lance Croffoot-Suede

Profession

Member of the New York Bar, Member of the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, Member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Experience

Lance handles white‑collar criminal, government regulatory and complex civil litigation matters. He has particular experience in securities and antitrust matters and class action defense. He has also handled a variety of shareholder derivative, bankruptcy and media litigations. He has extensive experience representing clients involved in government and internal investigations.

Lance has successfully represented broker-dealers, banks, other financial institutions and their corporate executives in criminal investigations and prosecutions by the U.S. Department of Justice and State criminal authorities. He also has successfully represented broker-dealers and banks in civil matters pending before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Reserve Bank, New York Stock Exchange, Financial Regulatory Authority (fka National Association of Securities Dealers) and New York State Banking Department.

Recent experience includes representation of:

Fortune 100 Company in its internal investigation into cross-border Foreign Corrupt Practices Act issues and concurrent investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

prominent financial institution in numerous state and federal civil litigations regarding derivative products

prominent financial institution in internal investigation into cross-border securities law issues

Lance is the Americas head of the global community investment committee. He has a distinguished record of pro bono service, including appointment to the Criminal Justice Act panel in the Southern District of New York to represent indigent federal criminal defendants and work to make changes in criminal law that benefit all criminal defendants. He served as lead counsel in the precedent-setting case of United States v. Fernandez, where the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit expanded a sentencing court’s ability to consider a defendant’s cooperation efforts, even if those efforts are not credited by the prosecution.

Lance also co-authored the report, “Camfed Governance: Accounting to the Girl – Working Towards a Standard for Governance in the International Development Sector”, which was published and launched in April 2010 at the opening plenary of the 2010 Skoll World Forum for Social Entrepreneurs, and honored at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. The report seeks to promote debate around standards for governance in the international development sector. The report, which was produced on behalf of Camfed, was the result of three fact-gathering trips to sub-Saharan Africa and more than 4,000 pro bono hours committed by teams of Linklaters’ lawyers and support staff.