Sean F. O’Shea, Partner

Sean F. O'Shea earned his B.A. at the University of Illinois in 1978 and his J.D. at Northwestern University School of Law in 1981. Mr. O'Shea was a Notes and Comments Editor of the Northwestern University Law Review and received the Adlai Stevenson Award for writing the best appellate brief in the Julius Miner Moot Court Competition. Mr. O'Shea began his career at a large national law firm practicing commercial litigation in Chicago and California before becoming a federal prosecutor in New York.

Mr. O'Shea served as Chief of the Business/Securities Fraud Unit of the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. During his ten year tenure as a federal prosecutor, Mr. O'Shea tried more than thirty-five jury trials to verdict and appeared as lead appellate counsel for the Department of Justice in dozens of appeals to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Mr. O'Shea is a highly skilled and aggressive trial lawyer in the areas of both civil and criminal litigation. He has tried cases ranging from sophisticated business fraud matters in the criminal context to representing corporations and individuals seeking monetary damages in securities fraud and Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO") cases in the commercial context.

Mr. O'Shea also has had consistent successes in representing individuals in securities industry disputes before panels of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the American Arbitration Association and the New York Stock Exchange.

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