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Derrelle M. Janey
The Janey Law Firm LLP
111 Broadway Suite 701,
New York, New York 10006
(646) 289-5276
[email protected]

Derrelle Janey is the founder and managing partner at
The Janey Law Firm LLP. Drawing from a decade of
experience where he developed a national complex civil litigation
practice at a prominent New York boutique law firm, Mr. Janey
represents individuals and businesses in high-stakes litigation
matters, including white collar defense.

Mr. Janey’s litigation experience ranges across a broad spectrum
including securities litigation, financial services litigation, healthcare litigation and bankruptcy
litigation in federal and state courts across the United States. He has considerable experience
litigating securities matters, regulatory defense actions (e.g., actions commenced by the SEC), and
complex healthcare matters (particularly those involving medical products distributors).
In addition to New York State and Federal courts within the Second Circuit, Mr.
Janey has appeared on many occasions in the United States District Court for
the Eastern District of Michigan where he is admitted to practice, as well as
federal courts in Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Alabama, and state
courts in California and Nevada.
In addition, Mr. Janey has substantial experience, including trial experience, in the area of white collar criminal
defense, and in particular where the defendant is charged with securities fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud or violations
under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. In fact, Mr. Janey has been involved in some of the leading white collar
defense and investigative matters of the past several years. In 2018, Mr. Janey co-led with his former partner Robert
Gottlieb the Ponzi Scheme trial of sports-radio talk show host, Craig Carton, resulting in a substantially reduced
sentence from the Government’s recommendation to the court.

In 2017, related to his representation of Michael Klein, the former town attorney for Ramapo, New York, in a SEC
enforcement action alleging, inter alia, fraud, Mr. Janey successfully resolved the litigation prior to trial. In 2015,
Mr. Janey and his former partner, Robert Gottlieb, represented Galen Marsh, the Morgan Stanley financial adviser
accused of stealing large portions of his employer’s wealth management client data. Mr. Marsh received probation.

Some of Mr. Janey’s recent non-criminal representations include commencing a securities fraud and breach of contract
action against a public company and its officers on behalf of an investor where the investor, ultimately, successfully
won a judgment, and defending medical products distributors from trade mark infringement and civil RICO claims,
where Mr. Janey defeated RICO and fraud claims. Notably, in 2014, Mr. Janey commenced an action in federal district
court against the SEC challenging the constitutionality of trying his client, Jordan Peixoto, for insider trading in
the SEC’s administrative hearing forum. The SEC dismissed the charges against Mr. Peixoto.

In the area of bankruptcy litigation, recently, Mr. Janey was retained by a
bankruptcy trustee to serve as outside general counsel to the trustee in 15
bankruptcy matters. Separately, in 2018, Mr. Janey was the trial lawyer
representing a trustee on behalf of a bankruptcy estate in a fraudulent
conveyance case against multiple defendants. Further, unrelated,
in 2018, Mr. Janey successfully settled a bankruptcy matter at
the door step of trial, generating millions in recovery for the
debtor estate.