Russell Capone

Cooley navigated Nishad Singh, former FTX director of engineering, through the highest-profile and fastest-moving financial fraud investigation in decades. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York said that he was “persuaded” by Singh’s cooperation in the investigation, and that he was put in a difficult position by Sam Bankman-Fried. Kaplan ordered Singh to contribute funds to the $11.2 billion forfeiture tab and spend three years on supervision. In addition to representing Singh in the investigation by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, Cooley also represents Singh before the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the New York Attorney General’s Office in the highly visible criminal and civil investigation. The Cooley team was led by partners Andrew Goldstein and Russell Capone, with support from associates Anu Dhillon and Jorge Sarmiento.

Cooley has been representing the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Mallinckrodt during Mallinckrodt’s ongoing bankruptcy proceedings, in which the pharmaceutical company’s Chapter 11 plan of reorganization was recently confirmed after a contentious multiweek trial, marking a defining moment in the case. Cooley partners Cullen Speckhart, Ian Shapiro, Philip Bowman, Michael Klein, Cathy Hershcopf and Jonathan Kim led the team advising the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors.