Stephen Colangelo is a trial lawyer, who for over 35 years has concentrated his practice in complex commercial litigation, including cases involving financial services, securities, and intellectual property issues. He handles all types of litigation, including class actions, derivative suits, regulatory enforcement actions, multi-district proceedings, and individual private actions. He also has extensive experience with regulatory and internal investigations.
While Mr. Colangelo handles litigation throughout the country, he is especially familiar with trying cases before judges and juries in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, known as the "Rocket Docket" because it has one of the fastest trial calendars in the federal system.
Mr. Colangelo's clients have included public companies, banks, mutual funds, broker-dealers and other financial institutions, as well as their officers and directors, and professionals such as accountants and attorneys. For example, he represented a major national bank, its affiliated mutual fund, and their officers and directors in the market timing and late trading investigations brought by the Office of the New York Attorney General and the SEC and in related class actions and derivative suits consolidated in a multi-district proceeding in the District Court of Maryland. He represented a bank and its holding company in state and federal investigations and enforcement actions related to a subprime credit card program, and he is currently representing them in related consumer class actions and other commercial litigation related to the program.
In 2005, Mr. Colangelo was a finalist in the Corporate Litigation category in the Washington Business Journal's 2005 Top Washington Lawyers issue.