Avi Weitzman

Practice Areas

Based in New York, Avi Weitzman is global co-chair of the Complex Litigation & Arbitration practice at Paul Hastings, and a partner in the Investigations and White Collar Defense practice based in New York.

Avi represents companies, executives and individuals in high-profile criminal and regulatory investigations, and litigates through trial and appeal all manner of complex commercial disputes in courts and arbitral forums throughout the United States. He has successfully served as lead counsel in approximately 20 high-profile white collar and civil trials, including having served as trial counsel in U.S. v. Sen. Robert Menendez (public corruption, FARA, obstruction of justice); U.S. v. Kaleil Isaza Tuzman (securities fraud and market manipulation); U.S. v. Sep Sarshar (insider trading); Chevron v. Donziger (civil RICO); and U.S. v. Winifred Jiau (insider trading). Avi also has deep experience representing financial institutions, technology, and media companies in complex commercial disputes, as well as conducting sensitive internal investigations on a range of issues from allegations of corporate malfeasance and securities fraud to allegations of sexual misconduct and sexual harassment.

Avi served in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for 7 years. A senior member of the SDNY’s Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, Avi investigated and prosecuted a wide range of federal securities fraud offenses and coordinated parallel civil proceedings with the SEC. He is a recipient of the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award for his work on the Raj Rajaratnam insider trading case.

Personal

Harvard Law School, J.D. 1999

University of Kentucky, B.A. 1996