As counsel in the Litigation Department, Daniel J. Juceam’s practice focuses on white collar defense, securities investigations, class actions, and other complex commercial disputes. Mr. Juceam has represented corporate clients, directors, and officers in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigations, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) investigations, federal and state litigation, and federal and state bank regulatory matters. Mr. Juceam also serves clients by conducting investigations, counseling, and training.
For more than six years (2004-2010), Mr. Juceam served with the SEC’s Division of Enforcement in Washington, D.C., including over two years as a Branch Chief. During his tenure with the agency, Mr. Juceam investigated potential violations of the federal securities laws involving many of the principal programmatic areas of interest for enforcement—including insider trading, disclosure-based violations, financial fraud, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
In private practice, Mr. Juceam has recently represented:
- numerous corporate clients, executives, and individuals in successfully defending SEC investigations into securities trading, disclosures to investors, regulatory compliance, and accounting;
- a global financial institution in an SEC auditor independence investigation, a congressional investigation, as well as separate federal and state regulatory investigations, examinations, and litigation;
- a publicly-traded pharmaceutical company in a securities class action that was dismissed following exclusion of plaintiffs’ damages expert just weeks before trial;
- another publicly-traded pharmaceutical company in successfully defending securities class actions, securities opt-out actions, ERISA fiduciary claims, putative derivative claims, SEC investigations, and a FINRA investigation;
- a publicly-traded financial technology company in defending a years-long SEC investigation into financial reporting and disclosure issues that was terminated without any enforcement action against our client;
- a global private equity firm in various DOJ and SEC investigations that were concluded without any enforcement action against the firm;
- a Chief Executive Officer of a Fortune 500 public company in successfully resolving an SEC investigation;
- a Chief Executive Officer of a prominent company in defending parallel DOJ and SEC investigations that concluded without any enforcement action;
- a founder and Chief Executive Officer of a public company in a civil securities class action that settled shortly before trial;
- a multinational conglomerate in defending Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations by the SEC and DOJ that were concluded without enforcement action;
- a major Wall Street bank in an SEC accounting fraud investigation arising from the financial crisis, which was terminated without any enforcement action;
- multiple directors and officers in Delaware Chancery litigation alleging breaches of fiduciary duty concerning a cross-border M&A transaction; and
- a hedge fund in obtaining a favorable outcome under a plan of allocation in a high-profile federal commercial dispute.
Mr. Juceam served as executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.
Mr. Juceam is a member of the Litigation Section and Business Law Section of the American Bar Association, as well as other professional associations.
