Carlos Real is a national securities litigator at Greenberg Traurig where he defends Wall Street brokerage firms and their employees. He focuses his practice on complex business litigation, employment, and securities litigation, and defending regulatory investigations for financial institutions. He regularly defends broker-dealers before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), AAA, and JAMS as well as in state and federal courts. Carlos has handled a wide range of matters for Wall Street clients, including defending customer complaints involving sales practice issues, money laundering, Ponzi schemes, unauthorized checks and wire transfers. He has also defended employment claims related to racial, religious, age, and sexual orientation discrimination, retaliation, tortious interference, noncustomer claims, and U-5 defamation. His representations of broker-dealers also include defending regulatory matters involving AML compliance with monitoring, reporting, record-keeping, and record retention requirements in regulations implemented under the Bank Secrecy Act.
Concentrations
•Arbitration
•Contract law and disputes
•Commercial law and litigation
•Employment litigation
•Financial services and banking litigation
•Securities litigation and arbitration
•Securities regulatory investigations
