Timothy J. MacFall

Timothy J. MacFall received his bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York in 1982, graduating cum laude. He received his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1985. Upon graduation, Mr. MacFall served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Narcotics Bureau of the Kings County District Attorney’s Office. In 1987, he joined the Immigration & Naturalization Service as a Trial Attorney in the Alien Criminal Apprehension Program. Mr. MacFall was subsequently cross-designated as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Criminal Division, in connection with the first prosecution for violation of the employer sanctions provisions of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. In 1988, Mr. MacFall was appointed as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the Civil Division of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. While a Special Assistant United States Attorney, he was a guest speaker at a U.S. State Department Conference on the Supplementary Extradition Treaty Between the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, where he gave a presentation concerning the elimination of the “political offense exception” and the constitutionality of extradition renewal under the supplementary treaty. Mr. MacFall has practiced all aspects of securities laws since 1992.

Mr. MacFall is currently working on several securities fraud class actions, including In re Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. Securities Litigation Inc. (S.D.N.Y.).  Mr. MacFall has also been involved in the following securities fraud class actions that were successfully prosecuted on behalf of aggrieved investors, such as In re Royal Dutch/Shell Transport Securities Litigation ($122.5 million cash settlement), In re Cigna Corp. Securities Litigation ($93 million cash settlement), In re Taser International, Inc. Securities Litigation ($20 million cash settlement), In re Terayon Communications Systems, Inc. Securities Litigation ($15 million cash settlement), In re Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Securities Litigation ($7.5 million cash settlement), In re Turnstone Systems, Inc. Securities Litigation ($7 million cash settlement), In re NCI Building Systems, Inc. Securities Litigation ($7 million cash settlement), In re Sipex Corp. Securities Litigation ($6 million cash settlement), In re Unisys Corp. Securities Litigation ($5.75 million cash settlement), and In re Telik, Inc. Securities Litigation ($5 million cash settlement).

Mr. MacFall is admitted to the Bars of the State of New York and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the District of Colorado, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.