John Dellaportas

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ABOUT JOHN DELLAPORTAS

John Dellaportas is the Co-Chair of Emmet Marvin’s Litigation Department. With more than two decades experience representing clients in high-stakes commercial and securities litigations and arbitrations, Mr. Dellaportas thrives under the challenge of achieving the right results for his clients and has successfully done so throughout his career.Mr. Dellaportas aggressively defends clients in shareholder class actions, and in civil enforcement actions and investigations brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Mr. Dellaportas also handles cases involving mergers and acquisitions, government contracts, commercial real estate and intellectual property matters. He is also lead counsel to government contractors on major procurement disputes and bid protests, and serves as an arbitrator and court-appointed fiduciary in financial services and real estate proceedings.Notably, in 2012, Mr. Dellaportas served as lead trial counsel to Bruce Bent, co-inventor of the money market fund, and his son Bruce Bent II, in an SEC civil action. Following a month-long trial, a Manhattan federal jury rendered a unanimous verdict in favor of the Bents, clearing them of all SEC Rule 10b-5 and other securities fraud charges. That courtroom victory earned Mr. Dellaportas “Litigator of the Week” honors from The Am Law Litigation Daily in November 2012, and “Litigator in the Spotlight” recognition by The American Lawyer in January 2013. Mr. Dellaportas’ closing statement was featured in the November 7, 2012 issue of The Wall Street Journal.A frequent writer and lecturer on securities law topics, Mr. Dellaportas most recently authored chapters on the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 for the Thomson Reuters treatise Securities Crimes, 2nd Edition. In 2009, he was a featured presenter at AsiaLaw’s 4th Annual Dispute Resolution Summit in Singapore, where he spoke on “Dispute Resolution in a Financial Crisis.”