Jonathan L. Kotlier

Partner Seaport West
155 Seaport Boulevard
Boston, MA 02210 617-439-2683 Fax: 617-310-9683 jkotlier@nutter.com jkotlier@nutter.com V-card

Areas of focus: Litigation and Government Investigations and White Collar Defense

Jonathan L. Kotlier is a partner in the Litigation Department and a member of the Government Investigations and White Collar Crime practice group. Jonathan joined the firm in 2004 from the U.S. Attorney’s Office where, for eight of his twelve years, he was Chief of the Economic Crimes Unit.

Since joining Nutter, Jonathan has represented several corporations and individuals in white collar criminal and complex civil cases and investigations involving alleged securities fraud, health care fraud, environmental crimes, government contracting fraud, and False Claims Act violations. Much of his work has been in the area of defending securities related actions involving accounting fraud issues. He has also conducted internal investigations on behalf of corporations and special litigation committees. He frequently represents individuals and corporations before the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Recently, Jonathan won the dismissal of a securities fraud complaint against a bond underwriter, which was upheld by the First Circuit Court of Appeals. Some of his other recent representations include:

Conducting an internal investigation on behalf of a Special Litigation Committee of the Board of Directors of a Fortune 500 company
Defending an executive in an SEC insider trading investigation
Representing managing partner of an association of broker-dealers in a FINRA investigation
Winning dismissal of a civil RICO action brought against a large software company
Defending a managing director of a private equity firm against breach of fiduciary duty claims in an adversary proceeding in federal bankruptcy court
Defending a mutual fund company before the Massachusetts Securities Division
Defending a not-for-profit company in a qui tam False Claims Act investigation

At the U.S. Attorney’s Office, he gained extensive experience prosecuting sophisticated white collar criminal cases involving securities and investor fraud, computer crimes and intellectual property and environmental crimes. He has tried to verdict over 20 cases.

As chief of the Economic Crimes Unit, he worked closely with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Massachusetts Division of Securities to develop many successful securities fraud prosecutions. He prosecuted, and supervised the prosecution of, numerous securities fraud cases involving accounting fraud, FCPA violations, market manipulation, investment advisor fraud, and insider trading. He served on the Securities and Commodities Fraud Working Group of the Department of Justice.

Jonathan was recently appointed to be the co-chair of the Criminal Justice Section of the Boston Bar Association. As a member of that section, Jonathan has moderated several seminar panels on securities fraud topics, including the new SEC cooperation initiative in April 2010.

For further information about Nutter’s Government Investigations and White Collar Defense practice, please visit our practice portal.

Jonathan L. Kotlier : Attorneys : Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP