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ROSS B. INTELISANO
Ross B. Intelisano is a partner
of the law firm of Rich & Intelisano, LLP which represents individual
and institutional investors in securities arbitration and litigation
against financial institutions. He also represents commodities
investors, as well as employees in industry disputes and self-regulatory
organization investigations. He has been practicing securities
and employment law for over ten years. He formed Rich & Intelisano,
LLP in 2003 with John G. Rich.
Mr. Intelisano has extensive experience in large and complex
securities and commodities fraud cases on behalf of investors
worldwide. He has prosecuted claims against brokerage firms,
banks, hedge funds, investment advisors and other financial professionals.
He and Mr. Rich were co-trial counsel in the Blumenfeld, et al
v. Refco commodities fraud case, a $100 million Ponzi scheme.
The 100-day arbitration on behalf of a group of 13 individual
and corporate investors who lost a combined $35 million generated
a $43 million award in 2001. It remains the largest collected
arbitration award ever rendered on behalf of investors against
a brokerage firm.
In 2005, Mr. Intelisano obtained favorable settlements on behalf
of clients who invested with Kevin Kelley, a Connecticut hedge
fund owner. Kelley falsely represented to his clients that monies
paid to his company were being placed in legitimate investments,
when he in fact he converted said monies for his own personal
use.
Mr. Intelisano has appeared on CNBC regarding hedge fund fraud
and regularly appeared on the CNNfn program "Flipside"
regarding securities fraud. He has been quoted by the Wall Street
Journal, New York Times, USA Today, Bloomberg, Dow Jones and
other financial publications.
In 2003, Mr. Intelisano published "Mediation Getting
to the Negotiation Table and Leaving Satisfied," an article
for Practicing Law Institute's Securities Arbitration 2003 course
handbook, the seminal securities arbitration continuing legal
education program. Mr. Intelisano is a frequent lecturer on securities
arbitration and is also an arbitrator at the National Association
of Securities Dealers (NASD), New York Stock Exchange (NYSE),
and National Futures Association (NFA).
From 2001 to 2003, Mr. Intelisano was of counsel to Bauman Katz
& Grill, LLP, where he headed the firm's securities and employment
arbitration and litigation practice, handled NASD and NYSE securities
arbitrations on behalf of investors and broker-dealers, and represented
employees in employment disputes, SRO investigations and registration
disputes. Mr. Intelisano was an associate at Eppenstein & Eppenstein
where he represented high net worth individuals in large and
complex securities and commodities arbitrations. Mr. Intelisano
began practicing securities and employment law at Pressman & Associates.
Mr. Intelisano received a B.A. in International Business from
Lehigh University in 1991 and his law degree from Brooklyn Law
School in 1994. He was admitted to the New York State Bar in
1995 and the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
and Eastern District of New York in 1998. He is a member of the
Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York County
Lawyers Association, Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association,
Columbian Lawyers Association, First Judicial Department and
Gotham City Networking Group.
Mr. Intelisano was born in Queens, NY and raised in Belle Harbor,
NY. He is married to Stacey Reiss, a producer at Dateline NBC.
He and his wife have a son, Leonardo, and live in Park Slope,
Brooklyn.
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