Lindsey B. Silver

Lindsey B. Silver has been handling securities cases for twelve years, including whistleblower, securities fraud, derivative, and other complex business litigation matters.

Lindsey B. Silver has been handling securities cases for twelve years, including three years of financial whistleblower-specific practice, after beginning her career with a focus on securities fraud, derivative, and other complex business litigation matters. In recent years, Ms. Silver has represented numerous whistleblowers filing tips with the SEC, FinCEN, CFTC, IRS, and the DOJ’s FIRREA/FIAFEA program. She has also continued her litigation practice, representing clients in qui tam matters, FINRA arbitrations, and other business litigation.

Ms. Silver’s whistleblower matters include the following:

• Representation of a whistleblower who uncovered an FCPA bribery scheme among several top manufacturers in the medical device industry, which has so far resulted in an SEC enforcement action that settled for $60 million;
• Counsel to whistleblowers who tipped off the SEC and other federal authorities to an allege Ponzi-like fraud occurring at $1 billion hedge fund, ultimately leading to federal civil and criminal charges against the fund and its principals, with receivership to date approaching $100 million and settlements against the fund principals totaling more nearly $6 million;
• Representation of whistleblowers who uncovered broker-dealer’s non-compliance with record-keeping provisions of the securities laws, which resulted in an SEC enforcement action against that firm along with 10 other wall street firms resulting in penalties totaling $289 million;
• Counsel to whistleblowers who tipped off the SEC and other federal authorities to an alleged fraud involving failure to disclose a SPAC merger target’s extensive connections to illegal black-market gaming, money laundering, and organized crime;
• Counsel to whistleblowers who have tipped the SEC to a suspected ongoing fraud by one of the largest interdealer brokers in the United States.
• Counsel to various whistleblowers bringing claims related to violations of the Investment Company Act of 1940.

For her work as a securities litigator, Ms. Silver was named a Rising Star by New England Super Lawyers magazine (2021).

During law school, she interned with the Hon. Nancy Gertner on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.