04 May 2011
International law firm Weil Gotshal & Manges named Christian Bartholomew, a former senior prosecutor with the Securities and Exchange Commission and leading securities litigation defense attorney, as a partner in its Washington DC office. He also will keep an office in Weil’s downtown Miami location.
Bartholomew will lead the firm’s SEC enforcement and litigation efforts in Washington and maintain his long-time presence in Florida.
At the SEC, Bartholomew litigated and tried some of the commission’s highest profile matters, including the SEC's first “earnings management” case.
After leaving the SEC in 2000, he has focused on representing financial institutions and public company clients in securities enforcement investigations conducted by the SEC, state regulators and attorneys general, and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and in related securities class actions. He now represents several major financial institutions in billion-dollar matters involving multi-regulator investigations and related securities class actions.
Over the course of his career, his clients have included TD Ameritrade, SunTrust banks and Raymond James.
Bartholomew earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from McGill University in Canada, and his law degree from the University of Virginia, where he was articles editor of the Virginia Journal of International Law.
Before joining Weil, he led Washington litigation and was vice chair for securities enforcement and litigation at Morgan, Lewis & Brockius LLP. He also has twice been named by U.S. District judges to act as a receiver in SEC enforcement cases.
Weil, Gotshal & Manges has more than 1,200 lawyers including about 300 partners worldwide. Based in New York, the firm has offices in Beijing, Boston, Budapest, Dallas, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Miami, Munich, Paris, Prague, Providence, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, Warsaw, Washington DC and Wilmington.
For more information on the law firm, visit www.weil.com.