Arlen Pyenson

White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement

• A former executive at an investment bank charged in a civil FIRREA case in the EDNY relating to fraud in the sale of RMBS. Secured favorable settlement involving no admission of wrongdoing.
• Securing a declination from DOJ of a senior executive at a large global financial institution in connection with a criminal investigation of a complex foreign exchange (FX) transaction.
• An executive at a pharmaceutical company in connection with an investigation by DOJ’s Antitrust Division into alleged price-fixing in the generic pharmaceuticals space.
• A power plant construction company in an internal investigation related to a public corruption prosecution in the SDNY.
• A leading publicly-traded international retailer in connection with an internal investigation and high-profile DOJ and SEC investigation related to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
• A senior executive at an investment bank in connection with an internal investigation and related criminal and regulatory inquiries by the DOJ, SEC, and Federal Reserve Bank of New York into alleged bribery and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations arising from the bank’s hiring practices in Asia.
• A global engineering company in an internal investigation of potential bid-rigging in violation of federal criminal antitrust laws at several construction projects.
• Multiple senior-level traders and executives at financial institutions in connection with global investigations of LIBOR, foreign exchange, and other products.
• A global engineering company in connection with a WDTX public corruption investigation.
• A pool of current and former employees of an investment bank in connection with multiple regulatory and related civil matters concerning the marketing and sales of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS).
• A senior executive in connection with a major federal securities fraud prosecution in the Eastern District of New York (EDNY).
• A prominent broker-dealer in a FINRA enforcement investigation regarding allegations of trading unregistered securities without appropriate money-laundering detection capabilities in place.
• A financial analyst at a real estate investment trust in connection with an accounting fraud investigation in the SDNY and SEC.
• A former hedge fund trader in connection with a major federal insider trading trial in the SDNY.

International Dispute Resolution

• An Italian wine manufacturer in an ICDR/AAA arbitration against its U.S. importer, under New York law.
• An Italian investor in an UNCITRAL arbitration against Lithuania, under the Italy-Lithuania BIT, relating to Lithuania's unfair and inequitable treatment of the investor's investment in the country's alcohol industry.
• A British soccer player in an arbitration in the Dispute Resolution Chamber of FIFA, in a dispute with an Egyptian soccer club.
• A Fortune 500 international hotel operating company in an ICC arbitration under United Arab Emirates law, relating to a dispute with owners of a U.A.E. hotel under a hotel management agreement.
• A U.S. distributor of audio-visual products in an ICC arbitration against claims of breach of a patent licensing agreement by a South Korean global electronics company, under New York law.