Brandon Roker is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Los Angeles office. As a member of the Trial Department, Brandon focuses his practice on white-collar criminal defense, securities litigation, commercial litigation, and the representation of clients in investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Cal/OSHA.
Representative matters handled by Brandon include:
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Represents a former executive officer of a publicly-traded mortgage company which is currently the subject of parallel SEC and criminal investigations related to sub-prime lending
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Conducted an internal investigation for a special committee of the Board of Directors of a public company into allegations of revenue recognition fraud and other accounting irregularities in connection with the company’s SEC filings
- Represented numerous potential defendants employed by a public corporation in an SEC investigation involving allegations that the corporation filed false and misleading financial reports with the SEC
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Successfully represented at trial the former Controller of a large, publicly-traded, computer company in an SEC civil action alleging improper revenue recognition
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Prepared successful Wells Submission for a Big Five auditor in connection with an SEC investigation into the auditor's role in an audit that failed to uncover improper revenue recognition by an audit client
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Conducted an internal investigation for the Board of Directors of a public company into allegations of insider trading
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Represented manufacturing company in parallel criminal and Cal/OSHA investigation of multi-fatality workplace accident, and in appeal of Cal/OSHA citations
Brandon also has significant experience assisting on appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the California Courts of Appeal. Brandon is licensed to practice in California and before the U.S. District Courts in the Central, Southern and Northern Districts of California.
Education
- University of California-Los Angeles School of Law, J.D., 1999
- University of California-San Diego, B.A., 1996
