Robert Seiden

Robert W. Seiden is an American former prosecutor, lawyer, global investigator, court-appointed receiver, integrity monitor and founder of Seiden Law LLP, a litigation and sanctions-focused law firm. Seiden is also the vice chairman of a private clean energy company, GreenMet.[1] He has been dubbed a "Wall Street Bounty Hunter" by The New York Times and profiled by The Wall Street Journal and Institutional Investor for his prosecution on behalf of investors against Chinese companies that went dark taking hundreds of millions of dollars from US and foreign investors, including China Sun Group High Tech, China Valves Technology, Sino Clean Energy[2] and Shengtai Pharmaceutical Inc.[3]

Robert Seiden
Alma materNew York University
Benjamin Cardozo School of Law
OccupationLitigation lawyer
OrganizationSeiden Law

Career

Raised in Brooklyn, Seiden attended New York City public schools and received his bachelor's degree from New York University in 1985 and his J.D. from Benjamin Cardozo School of Law in 1988. Until 1999, Seiden worked as a prosecutorial trial lawyer alongside fellow prosecutors including overlapping with John F. Kennedy Jr. and under the leadership of legendary prosecutor Robert Morgenthau at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in New York City.[4] He represents the Sherman family in the investigation into the double murder case of Canadian billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman in Toronto[5] and previously served as the initial prosecutor in People v. Edmund Ko involving the murder of a Columbia University law student by her ex-boyfriend, who was convicted using an "ear witness" and the results of mitochondrial DNA typing.[6]

In 2008, after working at a private investigations company as CEO for eight years, Seiden founded Confidential Global Investigations, an investigations firm that investigated Sino Clean Energy', fraudulent behavior against their investors in China.[7] In 2009, Seiden founded Seiden Law, an international law firm based in Manhattan specializing in complex commercial and business litigation, OFAC and sanctions cases, receiverships, and cross-border transactions.

Since 2008, Seiden has represented a variety of industries and industry leaders, including David Baazov, CEO of Amaya Inc.; Teddy Sagi, the founder of software gaming company Playtech; George Logothetis, chairman of Libra Group;[8] shipping magnate Nobu Su; crypto billionaire Harry Yeh,[9] hedge fund managers Gentry Beach and Robert Vollero.[10][11] Seiden's international work has included legal work with African nations such as Malawi and Egypt; working on behalf of the Israeli Court against Michael David Greenfield[12][13] and on behalf of retired IDF General Israel Ziv to assist with his removal from US economic sanctions as well as on behalf of the government of Lazarus Chakwera, president of Malawi to help recover monies defrauded from Malawi by a US citizen charged in New Jersey. Seiden also led the legal team that sued Omar Khan for the theft of millions from wealthy Americans such as Renaissance Technologies alumni Kresimir Penavic and others in a wine Ponzi scheme.[14] Seiden represents global mining company Solway Investment Group in the US Global Magnitsky sanctions case against its Guatemalan subsidiaries for alleged ties to Russia and corruption and led the effort to allow disprove these facts and secured permission for its mining operations to resume by securing a OFAC license from the US Treasury.[15][16]

He has been appointed court receiver more than 30 times for companies such as Link Motion,[17] China Sun Group,[18] Sino Clean Energy,[2] Shengtai Pharmaceutical Inc,[3] and Southern China Livestock. Seiden has been the only American allowed to list companies on China's CBEX.

Further, Seiden has had various published articles in Law 360 and the New York Law Journal including “Private Investigator: Application of the Attorney-Client Privilege,”[19] “How Lawyers and Investigators work Together Post-Enron,”[20] and “Tips for Obtaining Removal from OFAC’s Sanctions List”.[21]

References
  1. "GreenMet Growth Includes New Leadership on its Board of Directors". GreenMet. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
  2. "Bounty Hunter Tracks Chinese Companies That Dupe Investors". New York Times. March 15, 2016. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  3. "'They'd Find Fraud, Fraud, Fraud.'". Institutional Investor. 22 July 2020. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  4. Rapoport, Michael (21 June 2015). "Court Appointee Chases (and Finds) Investor Cash That Vanished in China". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  5. Star, Kevin Donovan Toronto (11 January 2021). "Barry Sherman's son says his father asked him to repay tens of millions of dollars, two weeks before murders, but Barry was 'all in' with son's business". Toronto.com. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
  6. "METRO NEWS BRIEFS: NEW YORK; Murder Suspect Casts Suspicion on Girlfriend". New York Times. March 28, 1998. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  7. Yue, Jillian (2016-03-02). "US Court Orders China Businessman Jailed In Legal Battle". China Money Network. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
  8. Libra Group Names Manos Kouligkas CEO; George Logothetis Executive Chairman" Kokkinidis, Tasos, Greek Reporter. July 21, 2022. Accessed April 13, 2023.
  9. "Securities commission moves against Vancouver crypto exchange company amid money-laundering concerns". Vancouver Is Awesome. 2019-11-05. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
  10. "After Decade-Long Legal Fight, Hedge Fund Managers Win $46 Million; Now Comes the Appeal". New York Law Journal. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
  11. Chung, Juliet (2020-01-14). "New York Court Vacates $91 Million Payout to Former Hedge Fund Employees". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
  12. Staff, ToI. "'Israeli Madoff' convicted over $150 million Ponzi scheme". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2023-03-31.
  13. "Seiden Law Group brings Largest Ponzi Scheme in Israeli History to US Court, Enabling Broad Discovery to Help Recover Swindled funds on behalf of Victims". markets.businessinsider.com. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
  14. "Wine consultant accused of cheating Wall Streeters hit by more claims". 2019-10-23. Retrieved 2023-09-29.
  15. "La geopolítica del níquel y las tierras raras en Guatemala" (PDF). May 29, 2023. {{cite web}}: |first= missing |last= (help)
  16. "Solway Investment Group Guatemalan subsidiaries granted license to resume operations". Yahoo Finance. 2023-10-03. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
  17. Rapoport, Michael (2015-06-21). "Court Appointee Chases (and Finds) Investor Cash That Vanished in China". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
  18. (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20190410223136/https://seidenlegal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/JudgeReviewed_69019282_Order-for-Default-and-Appointment.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-04-10. Retrieved 2023-07-12. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  19. "Private Investigator: Application of the Attorney-Client". New York Law Journal. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
  20. "How Lawyers and Investigators Work Together Post-Enron". New York Law Journal. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
  21. "Tips For Obtaining Removal From OFAC's Sanctions List - Law360". www.law360.com. Retrieved 2023-07-12.
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