Claudius B. Modesti

Claudius offers extensive enforcement experience across a broad range of capital market regulatory and corporate governance matters, including representing corporations, accounting and other professional services firms and financial firms before the DOJ, SEC, PCAOB and other regulators. He also conducts internal investigations on behalf of board of directors, audit committees and senior management. Claudius’s practice builds on 25 years of government and regulatory service, including as a DOJ prosecutor, an SEC enforcement attorney and, most recently, as the PCAOB’s first enforcement director. As PCAOB enforcement director, he led investigations of U.S.- and foreign-based accounting firms, many of which involved parallel SEC investigations. He also played a key role in the PCAOB’s collaboration with its foreign audit regulator counterparts. To learn more about Claudius, please visit his full profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/claudius-b-modesti.html · Akin

United StatesSecurities Enforcement, Corporate Governance

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Claudius B. Modesti is a Partner at Akin in the Disputes & Investigations department. He has over 25 years of experience in enforcement and regulatory matters, representing corporations, accounting firms, and financial institutions before the DOJ, SEC, PCAOB, and other regulators, and conducting internal investigations.

Practice areas

Securities EnforcementCorporate GovernanceInternal InvestigationsRegulatory Compliance

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United States

Akin · Claudius offers extensive enforcement experience across a broad range of capital market regulatory and corporate governance matters, including representing corporations, accounting and other professional services firms and financial firms before the DOJ, SEC, PCAOB and other regulators. He also conducts internal investigations on behalf of board of directors, audit committees and senior management. Claudius’s practice builds on 25 years of government and regulatory service, including as a DOJ prosecutor, an SEC enforcement attorney and, most recently, as the PCAOB’s first enforcement director. As PCAOB enforcement director, he led investigations of U.S.- and foreign-based accounting firms, many of which involved parallel SEC investigations. He also played a key role in the PCAOB’s collaboration with its foreign audit regulator counterparts. To learn more about Claudius, please visit his full profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/claudius-b-modesti.html

United States

Expertise

Capital MarketsCorporate GovernanceAccounting FirmsProfessional ServicesFinancial Institutions

Education

J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, magna cum laude, 1991
B.S., Georgetown University, 1986