K&L Gates : Professionals : Rebecca L. Kline Dubill

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Rebecca L. Kline Dubill	Partner
Washington DC +1.202.778.9064	Fax +1.202.778.9100
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Areas of Practice • Representative Experience • Professional/Civic Activities • Speaking Engagements • Court Admissions • Bar Admissions • Education

Areas of Practice

Ms. Kline Dubill concentrates her practice in the areas of securities enforcement, internal investigations and securities litigation and arbitrations. In cases involving a wide array of subject matters, she has represented broker-dealers, investment companies, investment advisers, hedge funds, corporate officers and directors and other individuals before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, FINRA and state securities regulators, as well as in complex litigation, including class actions and customer arbitrations. In addition, Ms. Kline Dubill has conducted internal investigations relating to various substantive areas involving the application of state and federal law, including, among others, financial accounting, corporate governance, SEC reporting and disclosure obligations, and e-discovery management. Through these varied engagements, Ms. Kline Dubill has developed significant experience in the areas of electronic information retention and discovery.

Representative Experience

Ms. Kline Dubill's recent experience includes:

Government Investigations and Litigation

Representing large public company in SEC investigation relating to adequacy of disclosures;
Advising hedge fund advisers regarding litigation and regulatory risk associated with exposure to various Ponzi schemes, including Bernard Madoff;
Successfully defending portfolio manager in SEC investigation relating to portfolio selection;
Representing CFO of public company in investigations and civil litigation relating to reinsurance arrangements;
Representing large broker-dealers in regulatory investigations related to electronic data retention and supervision; the provision of gifts and gratuities to institutional clients; revenue sharing and directed brokerage practices; market timing and the potential conflicts of interest between the research and investment banking; and
Successfully defending large broker-dealer in class action lawsuit relating to sweep accounts.

Internal Investigations

Conducting internal investigations for various clients ranging from large public corporations to smaller private companies regarding possible accounting and financial reporting issues;
Serving as counsel to the Examiner in the New Century Financial Corp. bankruptcy proceeding in a complex investigation that focused on accounting and financial reporting at the subprime mortgage company; and
Serving as counsel to the Independent Review Panel for CBS in its investigation of the September 8, 2004 60 Minutes Wednesday segment concerning President Bush's Texas Air National Guard Service.

Professional/Civic Activities

District of Columbia Bar Association
Maryland State Bar Association
Florida Bar Association

Speaking Engagements

Guest Lecturer, SEC Regulation and Portfolio Management, Crummer Graduate School of Business, December 2009
Priorities and Cost-Saving Strategies for Internal Investigations, More Enforcers at Your Door Conference, November 2009
Corporate Internal Investigations, Stafford Publications Teleconference, May 2007

Court Admissions

District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Maryland Court of Appeals
Florida Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and Fourth Circuits
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

Bar Admissions

Bar of District of Columbia
Bar of Florida
Bar of Maryland

Education

J.D., University of Michigan Law School (1998) (Executive Editor, Michigan Journal of Race & Law)
B.A., Williams College (1993) (cum laude)