Mr. Loewenson is a partner in the New York office of Morrison & Foerster LLP, where he is co-chair of the firm-wide Securities Litigation, Enforcement, and White Collar Defense Practice Group. His practice focuses primarily on white-collar defense, including regulatory matters. His cases have included alleged insider trading, market manipulation, and other securities fraud issues, foreign corrupt practices, government contract fraud, FDA reporting, customs violations, tax evasion, money laundering, price-fixing, health care fraud, false claims against the government, obstruction of justice, and attorney discipline. In 1995, The National Law Journal selected Mr. Loewenson as one of the country’s top “40 Lawyers Under 40.” Mr. Loewenson has also been recognized by Chambers USA, The Best Lawyers in America, and New York Super Lawyers.

From 2001 to 2007, Mr. Loewenson was a member of the New York State Ethics Commission, a body charged with interpreting and enforcing New York State’s ethics in government statutes. Since May 2007, Mr. Loewenson has served as chairman of the New York Convention Center Development Corporation, which oversees the planned renovation and expansion of the Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan. In October 2007, the New York State Senate confirmed Mr. Loewenson as chairman of the New York Convention Center Operating Corporation, which runs the Javits Center.

In 2004-05, he led an internal investigation on behalf of the Audit Committee of the Supervisory Board of ABN AMRO Bank N.V. regarding anti-money laundering practices and controls at its dollar-clearing unit in New York. In 2003, he represented the Audit Committee of Interpool, Inc., a NYSE-listed company, in an internal investigation in connection with an accounting restatement. He also conducted an internal investigation for one of the world’s largest financial institutions regarding proxy voting by its mutual funds.

The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has appointed Mr. Loewenson as receiver in three separate SEC enforcement actions: SEC v. H.K. Freeland & Co., Inc.; SEC v. Hack and Bentham; and SEC v. Credit Bancorp, Ltd. (to assist in unraveling a $200 million Ponzi scheme). In 1994, the SEC appointed Mr. Loewenson Independent Consultant to broker-dealer Stratton Oakmont, Inc., as part of a settlement of an SEC enforcement action.

Mr. Loewenson has also represented clients in significant civil cases, including:

• The State of Connecticut in a class action alleging violations by the State Police of the federal wiretap statute arising from the practice of recording calls to and from the State Police barracks.
• Kidder Peabody & Co., Inc., in litigation over a failed auto loan securitization in which the court granted Kidder summary judgment (affirmed on appeal) against its former client’s claim for damages of $140 million.
• Salmahs Inc., a plastics concern that was defending against trade secrets allegations. At trial, the federal court awarded judgment for Salmahs.
• A former controller of a public company in a federal securities fraud class action in which the former controller won a dismissal.
• A former principal in a management buyout who successfully defended against civil RICO charges brought by the selling company. The matter was settled for a small fraction of the claimed amount.

From 1985 to 1990, Mr. Loewenson served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he was successful in 15 out of 16 verdicts in cases he tried. He began at Morrison & Foerster in 1990 and has been a partner since 1993.

For most of his time as an Assistant United States Attorney, Mr. Loewenson served on the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, where he prosecuted cases involving insider trading, stock manipulation, other securities fraud offenses, and tax evasion. In trials, he faced many of the best trial lawyers and white-collar defense lawyers in the country, including Arthur Liman, F. Lee Bailey, Stanley Arkin, Stephen E. Kaufman, Marvin Schwartz, Vince DiBlasi, Paul Grand, and Robert Morvillo. His trials included United States v. GAF Corporation (stock manipulation); United States v. Marcus Schloss & Co. and United States v. Teicher (both part of “Yuppie Five” insider trading case); United States v. Clark (part of The Wall Street Journal insider trading case); and United States v. Shih (RICO prosecution). In April 1991, Mr. Loewenson received the Director’s Award for Superior Performance from the Director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys.

Mr. Loewenson is co-editor and contributing author of Federal Criminal Litigation: A Practical and Strategic Guide to Key Issues, published by the American Bar Association’s Section of Litigation in 1994. Mr. Loewenson has also written numerous articles regarding white-collar defense and federal trial issues for the National Law Journal, New York Law Journal, Computer Law Reporter, and Review of Securities and Commodities Regulation. He has appeared on PLI panels concerning internal investigations, parallel proceedings, and directors’ and officers’ (D&O) insurance.

Mr. Loewenson taught trial practice as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law at New York University (NYU) Law School (1988 to 1992), at the Practising Law Institute (PLI) in New York City (1991 to 1994), and at the Trial Advocacy Program of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office (1989 to 1994).

Mr. Loewenson is a member of the American Bar Association and its Criminal Justice Section. He is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and has been a member of its Committee on Federal Courts and Committee on Professional Discipline. He is also a member of the New York Council of Defense Lawyers and the Federal Bar Council.

• He received his B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 1979 and his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1983. At Yale, he was a Note Editor of the Yale Law Journal, and at Princeton, he was the Editorial Chairman of the Daily Princetonian. Mr. Loewenson was a Fulbright Scholar in 1979-1980 and was a visiting scholar at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in Stockholm, Sweden. In 1983-84, he served as law clerk to the Hon. Frank M. Coffin of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He then served for a year on the National Legal Staff of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in New York City as the Karpatkin Fellow.