Rich & Intelisano, LLP represents individual 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, endowments and other institutions. The Firm’s attorneys have a combined 70 years of experience in large and complex securities and commodities fraud cases on behalf of investors worldwide. We prosecute claims against brokerage firms, banks, hedge funds, investment advisors and other financial professionals. The Firm also handles international and domestic commercial arbitration matters and represents employees in disputes with the financial industry.

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

Starting in 2005, the Firm represented investors who lost over $25 million in the $300 million Bayou hedge fund blow up run by convicted fraudster Sam Israel. In 2007, the Firm settled a multi-million dollar group arbitration at the American Arbitration Association related to Bayou versus a registered investment advisor for failing to do proper due diligence. The Firm presently represents the entire Bayou bankruptcy estate in a $20 million FINRA claim against Goldman Sachs.

We also represent numerous investors in substantial arbitrations against Citigroup’s Smith Barney unit related to the ASTA/MAT and Falcon hedge funds.

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. It remains the largest collected arbitration award ever rendered on behalf of retail investors against a brokerage firm.

Our attorneys have appeared before the FINRA (the merged entity of the NASD and New York Stock Exchange), American Arbitration Association (AAA), National Futures Association (NFA) and in federal and state courts.