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NELSON A. BOXER

Nelson A. Boxer represents both corporations and individuals in federal, state and local criminal investigations and trials, as well as in regulatory investigations, including investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, Mr. Boxer represents corporations and individuals in complex civil litigation in federal and State courts. He has tried numerous criminal and civil cases, and arbitrations, to verdict. Mr. Boxer also has extensive experience conducting corporate internal investigations.

Mr. Boxer's practice has focused on securities, health care, banking, tax, accounting, the FCPA and antitrust. For example, Mr. Boxer has represented clients in recent, high-profile matters concerning:

insider trading
international banking
OFAC regulations
tax shelters
healthcare sales and marketing
medical insurance
auction rate securities
municipal bond derivatives
mortgage backed securities
options backdating

Mr. Boxer has acted as lead counsel serving as independent review organization of a major pharmaceutical corporation. He has also been appointed by the Department of Investigation for the City of New York to serve as an independent monitor of a City contractor.

Before joining Petrillo Klein & Boxer, Mr. Boxer was co-leader of the Government Investigations Practice at the prominent national law firm Alston & Bird LLP.

From 1991 to 1998, Mr. Boxer served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he investigated, prosecuted and tried numerous cases and handled appeals in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In September 1997, he received the U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys, Director's Award, and in October 1994 was awarded a Special Tribute in the U.S. Department of Justice Inspector General's Report to Congress.

Mr. Boxer is listed in The Best Lawyers in New York.

Mr. Boxer graduated from the University of Michigan magna cum laude in 1984, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and earned his law degree from New York University School of Law in 1987. Boxer served as a law clerk for The Honorable Arthur D. Spatt of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, from 1989-1991.