Stavroula E. Lambrakopoulos

Stavroula Lambrakopoulos concentrates her practice in securities enforcement matters, securities and financial services litigation, internal investigations, and broker-dealer regulation. As a partner in the firm's Investigations, Enforcement, and White Collar practice group, she represents corporate and individual clients in enforcement proceedings before the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice, FINRA, and state securities regulators. She also represents financial institutions, corporations, and their officers in complex financial services and securities class actions and individual litigation before federal and state courts at the trial and appellate level. She has first-chaired jury and bench trials in federal and state courts, and defends FINRA securities arbitrations. Her clients include banks and other financial institutions, broker-dealers, investment advisers, hedge funds, trust companies, colleges and universities, and their directors, officers, and employees.

Stavroula served for 10 years in various senior-level positions on Capitol Hill and in state government, concentrating on federal and state legislative initiatives in the areas of energy, environment, health care, and appropriations. As legislative director and staff to the Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and Competitiveness, she focused her efforts on energy, consumer protection, and environmental legislation including reauthorizations of Superfund, the Clean Air Act, and RCRA. She also served as the chief lobbyist for the Governor and state of New Jersey.