Andrew (“Andy”) Tomback is a partner in the Commercial Litigation Group and is based in the New York office. He focuses his practice on litigations and investigations involving federal securities laws, complex litigation, antitrust violations, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Andy has over 35 years of experience drawn from business, private practice and government service. He handles a full range of civil and criminal litigation before the courts, SEC, CFTC, and various other regulators.

Before entering private practice, Andy was Deputy General Counsel of the Resolution Trust Corporation, where he managed several hundred attorneys and investigators handling federal savings and loan resolutions. He also served as the Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Enforcement at the United States Department of the Treasury. Earlier in his career, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the criminal division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where he conducted grand jury investigations and prosecuted criminal cases, concentrating on complex securities frauds, including stock manipulations, insider trading, international tax evasion enterprises, and FCPA violations.  He tried 12 cases, all to conviction, and successfully argued over a dozen appeals. Andy also clerked for the Honorable Stanley Sporkin of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Prior to joining McLaughlin & Stern, Andy was Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Scientific Games Corporation (NASDAQ “SGMS”). Andy also was a partner at other global law firms.