Philip Moustakis

Government Enforcement and Internal Investigations, Digital Assets Group, Regulatory Compliance, Litigation & Investigations, Securities Litigation, Asset and Wealth Management, Financial Institution Risk Management.

Philip Moustakis is Co-Head of the firm’s Government Enforcement & Internal Investigations practice and a member of the Digital Assets practice.

Philip has extensive experience with SEC enforcement and regulatory risks faced by investment advisers, private fund managers, and other asset managers. Philip represents clients in SEC investigations; provides proactive advice and counselling to clients on regulatory and compliance risks and challenges; supports clients through SEC examinations; and directs internal investigations for them.

Philip has handled matters involving insider trading, conflicts of interest, valuation, market manipulation, ESG products, alternative data and research providers, expert consultants/networks, crypto asset offerings, nonfungible tokens (NFTs), crypto trading platforms, compliance and supervisory failures, and whistleblowers.

For more than a decade prior to joining the firm, Philip served as Senior Counsel in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement. As a member of the SEC’s Asset Management Unit, Philip investigated and prosecuted complex matters involving advisers to private funds and mutual fund complexes. Philip also initiated the SEC’s involvement in crypto, in 2013, with the SEC’s first Bitcoin-related enforcement action and was a founding member of the SEC’s Cyber Unit. Prior to the SEC, Philip served as an Assistant Attorney General in the Investor Protection Bureau of the New York Attorney General’s Office.

Philip is quoted frequently in the press on securities law issues affecting asset managers and blockchain companies. Philip is also a contributor to the firm’s Cryptocurrency and Blockchain blog, SKrypto.

Philip received a J.D. from New York University School of Law, and a B.A. in Philosophy, cum laude, from Purchase College.