Mark Mandel

Mark Mandel is a partner in Chapman's Banking and Financial Services Department and Litigation Group. Mark represents banks, broker-dealers, public companies, investment advisers, market makers, individual officers and directors, and hedge funds in securities litigation matters, as well as a broad range of investigations involving the SEC, DOJ, FINRA, CFTC, and state attorneys general. He has extensive experience representing such clients in securities class actions and parallel investigations and has been involved in numerous high-profile cases concerning, among other things, VIX index, exchange-traded funds, high frequency trading, CDOs, structured and complex products, insider trading, internal investigations, the Squawk Box investigations, auction-rate securities, options back-dating, and NYSE and SEC specialists investigations.

Prior to joining Chapman, Mark spent two decades as a litigation partner at Am Law-ranked firms. Prior to that, he served as chief of the New York office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Broker-Dealer Enforcement, where he successfully prosecuted a wide range of securities cases.