Mauro M. Wolfe joined Dickstein Shapiro LLP as a partner in the Securities—Litigation, Regulatory, & Compliance—Practice in 2006, after a nine-year career in government. He counsels and defends corporations, financial institutions, and individuals in the areas of securities regulation, securities enforcement, and white-collar crime. He also conducts internal investigations related to these areas and, more recently, information security management, data breach incidents, and art law matters. 

The capstone of Mr. Wolfe’s government career was the six-week jury trial of a former systems administrator for one of the world’s largest financial services companies, who was charged with unleashing a malicious computer code on his former employer for personal profit. The malicious code, also known as a “logic bomb,” was designed to cripple the company’s brokerage business and managed to shut down more than 2,000 servers, affecting more than 15,000 desktops. The prosecution was the first of its kind in the United States, where an individual was charged with both computer intrusion and securities fraud—two highly complex white-collar areas. After installing the malicious code on nearly all the servers within the company, the former systems administrator placed large trades that would reap huge profits in the event the stock dropped.

As the architect of the prosecution team, Mr. Wolfe developed a knowledge in the area of computer forensics and protected the victim company’s proprietary information from public disclosure at trial. He was able to tie the former systems administrator’s criminal activities to his home and work computers through the use of computer forensics experts. In addition, he worked very closely with the financial services company’s IT, systems, and internal securities departments to minimize the impact the discovery and trial preparation would have on the company.

Mr. Wolfe offers a unique set of experiences and skills that clients seek and need in today’s highly complex and regulated markets. He is a former prosecutor who knows how securities regulators and criminal prosecutors think. He is an accomplished trial attorney with an education rooted in business and economics. Prior to becoming an attorney, Mr. Wolfe spent six years working for a large publicly traded company. His breadth of business experience ranges from the boardroom to the showroom. His corporate background affords him deep business understanding and he is sensitive to the issues that concern business most. Moreover, Mr. Wolfe’s experience with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey in the Securities Fraud Section puts him in a rare class of attorneys who can carefully guide and counsel clients who are called before any securities regulator, a grand jury, or, as is often the case, both. With this special background, Mr. Wolfe is fully prepared and armed to counsel and defend clients challenged by the complex issues faced in today’s regulatory and criminal environments.

Bar Admissions

Pennsylvania
New Jersey
New York

Education

Indiana University of Pennsylvania, B.S., 1990
Temple University School of Law, J.D., 1996