Jodi Lopez

Practice Areas

Jodi Lopez focuses on representing accounting firms and their professionals, public companies and their directors and officers, and private equity and investment firms in complex litigation and regulatory matters involving financial reporting, accounting, internal controls, disclosure and tax issues. She co-leads the McGuireWoods Accountant and Auditor Liability Practice Area and works with clients facing high-stakes disputes and investigations where accounting judgment, regulatory scrutiny and business risk intersect.

Jodi has significant experience handling SEC and PCAOB investigations and enforcement actions, shareholder litigation and post-closing disputes arising out of private equity transactions. She also advises companies, audit committees and boards of directors in connection with internal investigations involving allegations of employee or corporate wrongdoing. Her litigation experience includes serving as lead trial counsel in a multi-week arbitration and as a member of a trial team in a contested SEC administrative proceeding. She routinely represents clients in investigations and enforcement matters brought by the state boards of accountancy as well as the AICPA.

Jodi's matters span a broad range of substantive issues under both state law and the federal securities laws, including professional negligence, fraud and misrepresentations, contract disputes and fiduciary duty claims. Her work frequently involves complex accounting and financial reporting topics such as revenue recognition, loan loss reserves and expected credit losses, internal controls and material weaknesses, goodwill impairment, securitizations, derivatives, auditor independence and deferred tax assets. She also represents private equity firms and portfolio companies in post-closing disputes involving purchase price adjustments, earnouts, indemnification claims, and representation and warranty matters, drawing on her accounting background to resolve disputes effectively.

Jodi further counsels accounting firms regarding legal, regulatory and risk issues in the context of evaluating business practices and organizational structuring. She also advises clients in global auditor and accounting liability matters, with extensive experience throughout Latin America, bringing cultural understanding and sensitivity to cross-jurisdictional engagements.