A former federal prosecutor and a partner in the Litigation Department, Roberto Finzi focuses on white collar criminal matters, regulatory enforcement proceedings, and internal investigations.

Representative matters include:

• The representation of an investment advisor in connection with criminal insider-trading charges in the Southern District of New York.
  
  
• The representation of major pharmaceutical corporations in separate Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney's Offices investigations of alleged off-label marketing in violation of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
  
  
• The representation of members of an audit committee of a public company in connection with an S.E.C. options-backdating investigation.
  
  
• The representation of a CEO in connection with a grand jury investigation of a pharmaceutical company.
  
  
• The representation of an executive in connection with a DOJ criminal anti-trust investigation.
  
  
• The representation of an individual in connection with a DOJ Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation.

Between February of 1999 and his return to Paul Weiss in January of 2006, Mr. Finzi was an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. In his seven years as a federal prosecutor, Mr. Finzi handled a wide variety of criminal investigations and prosecutions, conducting numerous jury trials in the district court and briefing and arguing numerous appeals before the Second Circuit. In 2002, Mr. Finzi became a member of the Southern District's Securities & Commodities Frauds Task Force. In that role, he investigated and tried a variety of cases involving, among other things, accounting fraud, investment advisor fraud and market manipulation.

Mr. Finzi served as an article editor for the Cornell Law Review.