Howard Fischer is currently a partner in the litigation and white collar departments of Moses & Singer LLP where, among other things, he represents targets of governmental investigations and enforcement actions, as well as parties involved in civil litigation in the financials services sector. He also counsels clients on securities regulatory matters. Howard is a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Task Force on Emerging Digital Finance and Currency, and speaks frequently at professional seminars and to various media outlets regarding regulatory and enforcement developments in this area. He serves as Secretary for the International Section of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), and co-chairs the Committee on Corporate Counsel as well as the Securities Disputes Committee.
Howard is recognized as a leading expert on securities disputes, enforcement proceedings, and securities regulations, including related to digital assets. He can be seen regularly on Bloomberg News, CNBC, Yahoo! Finance, CoinDesk News and other media outlets. He publishes frequently and his articles can be found in Barron’s, The Financial Times, Bloomberg Law, ThomsonReuters, Law360, and other sources as well.
In addition to being extensively published and interviewed by various media outlets, he is seen as a trusted source by publications ranging from the New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, Grid News, Axios, and others. Among the topics on which he is frequently consulted by the media include Supreme Court decisions, securities rules and regulations, litigation trends, data security and other topics. He has lectured in the United States, Europe and Asia on subjects ranging from accounting fraud, securities enforcement actions, arbitration techniques and the lingering effects of the financial crisis.
As a former Senior Trial Counsel at the US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), he was entrusted with some of the most sophisticated and noteworthy cases that the federal government prosecuted in the last decade. During his nine year tenure at the SEC, he earned multiple awards for exemplary service and served as first chair for numerous trials. This included acting as lead counsel in the litigation against Wing Chau and Harding Advisory LLC – relating to CDO asset selection in the run-up to the financial crisis – resulting in a major judgment against one of the characters lampooned in the film “The Big Short.” Howard was also the lead trial counsel in the prosecution of Kareem Serageldin, another figure referenced in “The Big Short”, involving the mismarking of certain mortgage-backed assets, by Credit Suisse, in the wake of the financial crisis.
