PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS

Mr. O'Shea was hired as trial counsel by Visa U.S.A., Inc. in a multi-billion dollar antitrust litigation which was set for trial in May 2003. Mr. O'Shea played a key role in the preparation of the case for trial. The Wall Street Journal, 4/25/03 at C1 & C10.

In 2007, Conde Nast ranked Mr. O'Shea as one of the top ten White Collar criminal defense lawyers in New York City. The article focused on his notable success in achieving resolutions before charges were proffered against his clients.

In 2005, Mr. O'Shea's withering, relentless cross-examination and impeachment of Refco CEO Philip Bennett and other executives and investment bankers resulted in a multi-million dollar judgment for his client in a finder's fee trial as reported in The New York Times. The New York Times, 10/20/05 at C1.

In 2005, Mr. O'Shea was successful in persuading the New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer not to bring charges against former AIG executive in connection with his investigation of document destruction and other related matters. The New York Times, 8/16/05 at C3.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Mr. O'Shea's client, a senior executive at a major investment firm, won $3 million in a wrongful termination claim arbitrated before the National Association of Securities Dealers. The award is one of the largest NASD awards ever won by a senior executive against his former firm. The Wall Street Journal, 1/26/01 at C1 & C15. Since that time, Mr. O'Shea has negotiated confidential settlements exceeding that amount.

In 2006 and 2007, Mr. O'Shea was selected as a "New York Super Lawyer" placing him in the ranks of the top lawyers in the New York Metropolitan area.

Mr. O'Shea is profiled as the "ferocious and impassioned" lead trial lawyer in a dramatic arson trial involving the death of a New York City Firefighter in this non-fiction account by a New York Times writer. Click here for excerpts from The Brass Wall.

The Brass Wall: The Betrayal of Undercover Detective #4126
by David Kocieniewski, Published by Henry Holt & Company; (October 1, 2003)

The New York Times Magazine featured an article about Mr. O'Shea's client Saudi national Dr. Al Bader al-Hazmi, a San Antonio radiologist, whose story of arrest and detention received national attention after his arrest and subsequent release by the F.B.I. and U.S. Attorney's Office in the post September 11th investigations. The article detailed how Mr. O'Shea, "a well-connected Manhattan attorney," would not sleep until he got [Dr. Al-Hazmi] out of prison. It quoted Dr. al-Hazmi as saying, "Sean was my man — I loved Sean." The New York Times Magazine, 10/21/01 at pp. 54-57.

A Fortune profile of one of Mr. O'Shea's financial fraud cases described Mr. O'Shea, "[t]he lawyer behind the effort, ... as a top draw ... one of the toughest, most resourceful [lawyers] ... seen over the years." Fortune, 6/8/98 at pp. 212-232.

The Wall Street Journal reported the probationary sentence received by an insurance company executive as a result of prompt action and intensive negotiation by Mr. O'Shea. The Wall Street Journal, 3/23/01 at C1 & C15.

The New York Law Journal reported at length on the trial of New York litigator Harvey Myerson at which Mr. O'Shea served as lead counsel for the prosecution. The New York Law Journal's account of the trial stated that the government's chief prosecutor, Sean O'Shea was going to be a "tough match" for a litigator as skilled as Mr. Myerson. The article went on to describe Mr. O'Shea delivering a "polished 50 minute opening [statement] spelling out in simple, but starkly memorable terms the government's case..." and recounted how the opening "skillfully unfolded the story" of how Mr. Myerson turned a Park Avenue law firm into a RICO enterprise. The five week trial ended in a conviction of Myerson on multiple counts of fraud. New York Law Journal, 3/24/92.