Value proposition

Financial services law firm advising clients on the cutting edge of tech innovation.

McGonigle serves the regulatory counseling, enforcement defense, and litigation needs of clients across the full spectrum of financial services – from investment banks, broker-dealers, investment advisers, hedge funds, commodity trading advisors and pool operators, blockchain companies and entrepreneurs to national and international securities markets and exchanges, including crypto exchanges. Many of the Firm’s partners formerly served in senior positions at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), CME Group, and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), and several served in senior executive positions in major financial institutions on Wall Street.

Currently, there are 16 lawyers at McGonigle who previously served in leadership roles at the SEC. Two additional lawyers held roles at the CFTC, and one of them served as Chief Compliance Officer of NYSE Liffe US, a CFTC -registered futures exchange. The team also includes five former Department of Justice prosecutors, including two from the Southern District of New York and two from the District of Columbia.

Due to its work with a wide range of clients in the evolving financial services sector on regulatory matters, McGonigle has been named the "Law Firm of the Year" for Securities Regulation by U.S. News – Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms" in the past two consecutive years – 2021 and 2022.

The firm operates in New York, Washington, D.C., Richmond, VA, Chicago, IL and San Francisco, CA.

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