Timothy P. Crudo

Practice Areas

White collar defense and investigations

Career

A trial lawyer and former federal prosecutor, Tim Crudo helps companies and individuals in investigations and cases brought by federal and state criminal authorities and government enforcement agencies. Tim also counsels and defends clients in securities, corporate governance, and other complex business and civil matters involving shareholders, consumers, and competitors. In addition, he is tasked by companies and Boards of Directors to lead sensitive internal investigations.

Tim’s extensive criminal and civil jury, bench, and arbitration trial experience includes several prominent white collar criminal trials, the longest civil trial (a securities fraud class action) in the Northern District of California, the then-largest arbitration award in the history of the International Chamber of Commerce, and one of the largest regulatory enforcement trials in U.S. banking history. Over the years his matters have covered the gamut of substantive areas including securities and investment fraud, tax fraud, healthcare fraud, antitrust violations, audit and accounting misconduct, and public corruption.

From 2003 to 2009, Tim served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Securities Fraud Section of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, where he investigated, prosecuted, and tried white collar and securities fraud crimes, including complex accounting fraud, insider trading, market manipulation, investment fraud, and bankruptcy fraud cases. During his career with the Department of Justice, Tim was the lead trial lawyer on a number of prominent securities and corporate fraud matters, including the nation’s first two stock option backdating trials; the trials of the Board Chairman, CFO, and General Counsel of a Fortune 50 company on charges of accounting fraud; the investment fraud trial of a high-profile real estate developer in northern California; a $100 million Ponzi scheme operated by the owner of a major sports franchise; insider trading investigations arising from the acquisition of a large financial institution and conduct at a major global private investment firm; and numerous investigations of companies and individuals based in Silicon Valley and beyond. He also argued several cases before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Tim was named Chief of the Securities Fraud Section in 2007.

Professional Memberships

Tim is a member of the American Bar Association, the California Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association, and the Association of Business Trial Lawyers. He also is a member of the Executive Committees of the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Securities Litigation Section and Criminal Justice Section.