Practice Areas

Securities Law Violations

Investment fraud affects people from all walks of life. Anyone can be a victim of investment fraud. At Stewart Tilghman Fox & Bianchi, P.A., we have represented hundreds of clients who were victims of a variety of wrongful acts by stockbrokers, financial planners, financial advisors and the institutions with which they had invested their savings, including:

• Misrepresentations
• Commission churning
• Unsuitable investments
• Unauthorized transactions
• Execution failures
• Excessive mark-ups
• Disappearing funds
• Botched transfers
• Web-broker outages
• "Selling away" from firms
• Unregistered brokers
• Unregistered securities
• Improper margin liquidations
• Broker bribes
• Fraudulent research
• "Boiler room" sales practices.

Our cases involve a variety of investment vehicles, including stocks, bonds, "penny" stocks, "junk" bonds, options, warrants, commodities, mutual funds, REIT's, limited partnerships, and derivative securities. We also handle cases involving problem investments such as limited partnerships, promissory notes, class actions, and other high-risk investments.

Representative Securities Cases

Walco lnvestments v. Thenen, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida

• $69,000,000 in settlements in securities fraud and legal malpractice cases. The firm was co-counsel.

Abrams v. Paine Webber, Inc., U.S. District Court, Southern District of Connecticut, Bridgeport, Connecticut

• $15,000,000 settlement of class action lawsuit against securities firm for fraud. The firm served as co-counsel.

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