Christopher C. Cooke

Christopher Cooke is a litigator with over nineteen years' experience, including seven years as an attorney and branch chief with the Enforcement Division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in San Francisco. While at the SEC, Mr. Cooke conducted investigations of and filed civil and administrative actions against companies and individuals violating the federal securities laws. As an enforcement attorney and then branch chief, Mr. Cooke brought civil enforcement actions against public companies and their executive officers for fraudulently reporting their financial results to the investing public, against brokerage firms and investment advisers for defrauding their clients, and against investment bankers and others for fraudulently raising money from investors.

Before he joined the SEC, Mr. Cooke was an attorney at Morrison & Foerster LLP, where he represented a wide variety of clients in federal and state courts in California, concentrating on complex litigation matters, and he was a law clerk to a United States District Judge in San Francisco. Mr. Cooke received his law degree from UCLA School of Law in 1989.