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Pravin Rao is a partner in the Litigation practice at Perkins Coie law firm and Chair of the firm's Investigations & White Collar Defense practice. He is uniquely positioned as a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, as well as an SEC Enforcement Branch Chief, to provide comprehensive representation and counseling to clients on a wide variety of complex criminal and civil regulatory matters, including assisting individuals and FORTUNE 500 companies respond to government inquiries and conduct internal investigations. Recently, Pravin was appointed to be FCPA Monitor of a large multinational corporation to oversee its governance reforms in connection with a deferred prosecution agreement and settlement with the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Pravin has also served as a court-appointed examiner in a federal bankruptcy proceeding where he was tasked with investigating a company managing over $100 million in pension assets.. Pravin developed a unique perspective from conducting parallel investigations with the SEC, CFTC, and other regulators in complex cases involving large publicly traded companies, officers and directors, broker-dealers and hedge funds. Pravin has tried 10 jury trials and argued 11 appeals in federal courts, and served as “first chair” in numerous trials and over 25 appeals in state courts. Before becoming a federal prosecutor, Pravin served as an Enforcement Branch Chief with the SEC, where he directed numerous high profile investigations and litigation involving revenue recognition, financial statement and disclosure fraud, insider trading, investment advisory fraud, prime bank and Ponzi schemes, market manipulation, failure to supervise, broker dealer misconduct, and record-keeping, reporting and registration violations. He has maintained his ties to the SEC, having served as Regional Chair of the Association of SEC Alumni.Pravin is a frequent commentator in the press on the government's fraud enforcement efforts and the SEC, especially where these topics intersect the criminal arena, and has been quoted in BusinessWeek, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, and other TV and print media.  He writes regularly on these same subject areas and is regularly invited to speak to in-house counsel and industry groups.  Pravin has also been retained as an expert witness in civil litigation involving securities issues and in a FINRA arbitration

IRA N. HELFGOT is a sole practitioner in Chicago, where he concentrates his practice in commercial litigation, including the following types of disputes, employment, mechanic's liens, contracts, mortgage foreclosure, partition, brokerage commission, partnership, corporate, injunctions, commercial forcible entry and detainer, sale of businesses, class actions, fraud, consumer fraud, and commodities and securities fraud, business collections, including collections for law firms, and professional liability law. Ira has published extensively on debtor-creditor issues and professional liability law topics for among others, IICLE, the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, and the Illinois Creditors Bar Association and has lectured on debtor-creditor issues for the Illinois Creditors Bar Association and the Illinois Credit Union League. Ira is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, formerly serving on its Committee on Judicial Evaluations and as a CLE Coordinator for the Commercial Banking, Collections & Bankruptcy Section Council, the Decalogue Society of Lawyers, where he formerly served as a member of the CLE Committee and as a member of the Board of Directors, and the Illinois Creditors Bar Association, formerly serving as president and as a member of the Board of Directors. Ira is also currently serving as a member of the Board of Directors of the Lawyers’ Assistance Program, pursuant to an appointment by the Illinois Supreme Court and has been elected as president of the Board of Directors.

Daniel A. Edelman is a member  of the firm of Edelman, Combs, Latturner & Goodwin, LLC.  He is a 1976 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School.  From 1976 to 1981 he was an associate at the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis.   In 1981 he became an associate at Reuben & Proctor and was made a partner there in 1982.  From the end of 1985 he has been in private practice in downtown Chicago.  Virtually all of his 14-attorney firm’s practice involves litigation on behalf of consumers, including individual and class actions under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, Telephone Consumer Protection Act, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, and Truth in Lending Act, and debt collection defense.  Mr. Edelman argued for the consumer in Heintz v. Jenkins, 514 U.S. 291 (1995), establishing  FDCPA coverage of attorneys.. Mr. Edelman is the author or coauthor of numerous publications on class actions and consumer protection law, including Predatory Mortgage Lending (Ill. Inst. for Cont. Legal. Educ. 2008), author of Chapter 6, “Predatory Lending and Potential Class Actions,” in Real Estate Litigation (Ill. Inst. For Cont. Legal Educ. 2008), Chapter 4-1, “Truth in Lending Act,” in Illinois Causes of Action (Ill. Inst. For Cont. Legal Educ. 2008), Predatory Lending and Potential Class Actions, ch. 6 of Illinois Mortgage Foreclosure Practice (Ill. Inst. For Cont. Legal );  Predatory Lending and Potential Class Actions, ch. 5 of Real Estate Litigation (Ill. Inst. For Cont. Legal ); Illinois Consumer Law, in Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act and Related Areas Update (Chicago Bar Ass’n 2002); Predatory Lending Litigation in Illinois (2001); Consumer Class Action Manual (2d-5th editions), National Consumer Law Center 1990-2002; Payday Loans:  Big Interest Rates and Little Regulation, 11 L.Rptr. 14 (1999); Fair Debt Collection Practices Act Update --  1999, Chicago Bar Ass’n 1999; An Overview of The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, in Financial Services Litigation, Practicing Law Institute (1999); Consumer Fraud and Insurance Claims, in Bad Faith and Extracontractual Damage Claims in Insurance Litigation, Chicago Bar Ass'n 1992; Chapter 8, "Fair Debt Collection Practices Act," Ohio Consumer Law (1995 ed.); Fair Debt Collection:  The Need for Private Enforcement, 7 L.Rptr. 89 (1995); The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act:  Recent Developments, 8 L. Rptr. 303 (1996); Residential Mortgage Litigation, in Financial Services Litigation, Practicing Law Institute (1996); Automobile Leasing:  Problems and Solutions, 7 L.Rptr. 14 (1994); Current Trends in Residential Mortgage Litigation, 12 Rev. of Banking & Financial Services 71 (1996); Applicability of Illinois Consumer Fraud Act in Favor of Out-of-State Consumers, 8 L.Rptr. 27 (1996); Illinois Consumer Law (Chicago Bar Ass'n 1996).  He has testified before the Federal Trade Commission and legislative committees on consumer related issues.. Mr. Edelman is licensed in Illinois state court and in all federal courts in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan, as well as others.

Andrew Stoltmann, attorney and investor advocate, exclusively concentrates his practice in representing investors who are the victims of investment fraud. He has represented over one thousand individuals in lawsuits and securities arbitration actions against brokerage firms like Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Wachovia, Linsco, Prudential, Baird, Edward Jones, AG Edwards and Smith Barney and has tried approximately 80 cases (please see Stoltmann Arbitration Awards for some of his decisions). Previous to opening the Stoltmann Law Offices P.C. he was a partner in a law firm concentrating its practice in the representation of investors in lawsuits, arbitration claims and class actions against brokerage firms. Mr. Stoltmann is currently an adjunct securities law professor at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago.. Mr. Stoltmann was the Editor-In-Chief of the PIABA (Public Investor Arbitration Bar Association) Bar Journal, a law journal for the national association of securities attorneys who represent investors in claims against brokerage firms and stockbrokers, from 2001 through 2005. Mr. Stoltmann is also the co-author of the book “Investor Rights for the Year 2000 and Beyond.” He was voted an Illinois legal Rising Star from 2008 through 2012 and voted a 2014 Super Lawyer by his legal peers. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin (Madison) with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, Mr. Stoltmann worked as a licensed stockbroker for Olde Discount and Merrill in law school at DePaul University, Mr. Stoltmann clerked at the Chicago NASD Dispute Resolution office, where 95% of securities arbitration cases are decided.

Experienced Securities attorney serving clients in Chicago and surrounding areas.

Experienced Securities attorney serving clients in Chicago and surrounding areas.

Experienced Securities attorney serving clients in Chicago and surrounding areas.

Experienced Securities attorney serving clients in Chicago and surrounding areas.

Experienced Securities attorney serving clients in Chicago and surrounding areas.

Experienced Securities attorney serving clients in Chicago and surrounding areas.

Experienced Securities attorney serving clients in Chicago and surrounding areas.

Experienced Securities attorney serving clients in Chicago and surrounding areas.

Experienced Securities attorney serving clients in Chicago and surrounding areas.