Rich & Intelisano, LLP represents retail and institutional investors in securities arbitration and litigation against financial firms. Our clients include high net worth individuals, family offices, hedge funds, funds of funds, non-profits and other institutions in claims against brokerage firms, banks, investment advisors and other financial professionals. We have a combined 70 years of experience in large and complex securities and commodities fraud cases on behalf of investors worldwide. The Firm also handles international and domestic commercial arbitrations and represents employees in disputes with the financial industry.

Rich & Intelisano, LLP has pioneered the practice of representing individuals and institutions in group arbitrations related to hedge fund fraud. The Firm presently represents numerous investors in claims against investment advisors and banks for failing to do proper due diligence in their recommendation of Bernard Madoff-related feeder funds. We also currently represent investors who lost approximately $50 million against Bear Stearns related to its High Grade Structured Credit Strategies hedge funds which blew up in July 2007.

Starting in 2005, the Firm represented investors who lost over $25 million in the $300 million Bayou hedge fund Ponzi scheme run by convicted fraudster Sam Israel. We resolved a multi-million dollar group arbitration against an advisor for failing to do proper due diligence on Bayou. The Firm presently represents the entire Bayou bankruptcy estate in a $21 million FINRA arbitration against Goldman Sachs.

Founding partners John G. Rich and Ross B. Intelisano were co-trial counsel in the Engel, et al. v. Refco commodities fraud case at the National Futures Association. The 100-day arbitration on behalf of a group of 13 individuals and family run businesses generated a $43 million award in 2001, which remains the largest collected arbitration award ever rendered on behalf of retail investors against a brokerage firm.