Rebecca M. Katz is a 1990 graduate of Hofstra University School of Law, where she was a member of the Hofstra Law Review. She has prosecuted securities fraud cases on behalf of the SEC and private investors throughout her entire career. As Staff Attorney and then Senior Trial Counsel in the Enforcement Division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (from 1990-1998), she prosecuted major cases involving violations of the federal securities laws, including insider trading, market manipulation, and accounting fraud. Representative cases include SEC v. Karczewski (Stockbridge Funding); SEC v. Dillon (BusinessWeek); SEC v. F.N. Wolf & Co., Inc., and SEC v. Sarivola.

Before joining the firm in 2001, she was associated with Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, where she served as Counsel for plaintiff classes in several securities cases, including Dietrich v. Bauer (securities class action involving trading in the securities of Scorpion Technologies Inc.). Presently, Ms. Katz is serving on Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee in In re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation. In that capacity, she is supervising over 80 attorneys and legal professionals from more than 20 law firms in the discovery process and the day-to-day management of the litigation. She is admitted to the New York State Bar and to the bars of the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.