Christopher Michael Viapiano

Practice Areas

Securities Litigation; Criminal Defense & Investigations Litigation

Career

Christopher Viapiano is a partner in Sullivan & Cromwell’s Litigation Group, Co-Head of the Firm’s Securities Litigation Practice and a member of the Criminal Defense & Investigations Group. Mr. Viapiano represents financial institutions and other leading companies in securities and shareholder derivative litigation, antitrust and commodities litigation, books and records demands and litigation, criminal and regulatory enforcement matters, and corporate internal investigations. He has represented clients under investigation by the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve, and state attorneys general.

Personal

Stanford Law School, J.D., 2005; Hamilton College, B.A., 2002

Served as a law clerk to the Honorable Donald F. Parsons, Jr., Delaware Court of Chancery, 2005-2006