Nelson Boxer is a partner in the Litigation and Trial Practice and Securities Litigation Groups. His practice is focused on white-collar criminal defense, SEC-related representations and commercial litigation. He has represented corporations and individuals in a variety of these matters, including alleged securities fraud, health care fraud, tax fraud, violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, antitrust and banking malfeasance, in federal and state courts and before various federal and state prosecutors and regulatory agencies.
Nelson has tried numerous criminal and civil cases to verdict, as well as New York Stock Exchange and NASD arbitrations. His principal clients include one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, a major investment bank and broker-dealer, and senior officers of various public companies. He has represented a variety of private equity firms and hedge funds – including principals of those firms and funds – in criminal and regulatory matters as well as in civil litigation concerning complex investment strategies, recapitalizations, limited partnership agreements and alleged fraud in federal and state courts, Delaware Chancery Court, and in arbitrations.
Nelson Boxer is a partner in the Litigation and Trial Practice and Securities Litigation Groups. His practice is focused on white-collar criminal defense, SEC-related representations and commercial litigation. He has represented corporations and individuals in a variety of these matters, including alleged securities fraud, health care fraud, tax fraud, violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, antitrust and banking malfeasance, in federal and state courts and before various federal and state prosecutors and regulatory agencies.
Nelson has tried numerous criminal and civil cases to verdict, as well as New York Stock Exchange and NASD arbitrations. His principal clients include one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, a major investment bank and broker-dealer, and senior officers of various public companies. He has represented a variety of private equity firms and hedge funds – including principals of those firms and funds – in criminal and regulatory matters as well as in civil litigation concerning complex investment strategies, recapitalizations, limited partnership agreements and alleged fraud in federal and state courts, Delaware Chancery Court, and in arbitrations.
Nelson has conducted many corporate internal investigations, including concerning various accounting issues and internal controls. He was also appointed by the New York City Department of Investigation as monitor of a company doing business with numerous agencies of the City of New York.
Nelson has represented companies and/or individuals in recent noteworthy matters concerning subprime mortgages and CDOs, options back-dating, antitrust allegations concerning municipal derivatives and investment contracts, tax shelters, insurance and insurance brokerage, insider trading, and the United Nations oil-for-food investigation.
From 1991 to 1998, Nelson was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, in Manhattan. As a federal prosecutor, he investigated, prosecuted and tried a variety of cases and also handled numerous appeals in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In September 1997, he received the U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys, Director's Award for his successful investigation and prosecution of the ruling hierarchy of the Genovese Organized Crime Family (including its control of the annual Feast of San Gennaro in Little Italy). In October 1994, he received a Special Tribute in the U.S. Department of Justice Inspector General's Report to Congress for his prosecution of corrupt prison guards in Westchester County.
Nelson has lectured on the applicability of the attorney-client privilege in internal corporate investigations, and is the author of "Using Cookies in Litigation," which appeared in the New York Law Journal and in The Corporate Counsellor.
Nelson is a graduate of the University of Michigan (B.A., magna cum laude, 1984), where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and of New York University School of Law (J.D., 1987). He served as a law clerk for The Honorable Arthur D. Spatt of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, from 1989-1991.