Crudo, Timothy P.
Crudo, Timothy P.
Tim Crudo heads the firm’s White Collar Defense and Government Enforcement Practice Group. Tim is a trial lawyer focusing on investigations and cases brought by criminal prosecutors, government regulators, and shareholders in white collar, securities, and corporate governance matters. He also defends clients in trade regulation, unfair competition, and other complex business and civil cases brought by regulators, consumers, and competitors. Tim has extensive criminal and civil jury, bench, and arbitration trial experience, including some of the most prominent white collar criminal trials in the Bay Area, the longest civil trial (a securities fraud class action) in the history of the Northern District of California, and the then-largest arbitration award ($250 million) in the history of the International Chamber of Commerce. His clients have included corporations, Boards of Directors and their committees, and individuals in a range of industries, including banking and financial services, audit and accounting, communications, life sciences, clean technology, the Internet, and the automotive industry.
From 2003 to 2009, Tim served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Securities Fraud Section of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, where he investigated, prosecuted, and tried white collar and securities fraud crimes, including complex accounting fraud, insider trading, market manipulation, investment fraud, and bankruptcy fraud cases. During his career with the Department of Justice, Tim was the lead trial lawyer on a number of high-profile securities and corporate fraud matters, including the nation’s first two stock option backdating trials; the trials of the Board Chairman, CFO, and General Counsel of a Fortune 50 company on charges of accounting fraud; the investment fraud trial of one of the largest real estate developers in northern California; a $100 million ponzi scheme operated by the owner of a major sports franchise; insider trading investigations arising from the acquisition of a large financial institution and conduct at a major global private investment firm; and numerous investigations of companies and individuals based in Silicon Valley and beyond. He also argued several cases before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Tim was named Chief of the Securities Fraud Section in 2007. Prior to joining Coblentz, Tim was a partner at Latham & Watkins LLP.
