Brooke Cucinella
Associate
Brooke Cucinella is an associate in O’Melveny’s New York office and a member of the White Collar Defense and Corporate Investigations Practice. Her practice focuses on representing individuals and institutions in white collar enforcement matters, as well as civil and criminal antitrust matters.
Illustrative Professional Experience
- Representing a global microprocessor manufacturer in an antitrust case involving claims of unlawful monopoly maintenance in the worldwide x-86 microprocessor market.
- Representing a Fortune 500 corporation in parallel civil and criminal antitrust cases.
- Representing the former employee of a financial institution in antitrust and SEC investigations related to the municipal finance industry.
- Representing a plaintiff in a Federal Torts Claim Act with respect to deprivation of medical care in a federal institution.
- Represented the former CFO of a technology company in a stock option backdating investigation by the SEC.
- Assisted the Independent Consultant to a reinsurance company that had settled an enforcement action with the SEC. Work included a comprehensive review of the company’s control environment, including policies and training.
- Representing a former executive of a financial institution in an investigation led by the New York Attorney General's Office.
- Representing the underwriting syndicate in a securities putative class action alleging that the issuer, a large solar-energy company, failed to disclose alleged customer defections in its IPO registration and prospectus.
Professional and Community Activities
Extern, The Honorable Milton I. Shadur, US District Court, Northern District of Illinois
Co-Author, “Structuring: A Little-Known Crime That Could Bring Down a Governor,”
American Bar Association's Criminal Litigation Committee Newsletter (Spring 2008)
Volunteer, Brooklyn Alternative to Detention Center and Cases Program, New York City; Teacher, Teach for America, New Orleans and Chicago