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SEC Uses Firm’s Retaliation To Market Tipster Program

Jordan A. Thomas recently commented on a case in which the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) gave its highest possible award to a hedge fund adviser whistleblower, capitalizing on the firm’s retaliation against him to send another welcoming message to would-be whistleblowers and a warning to companies. The SEC last year charged the hedge...

SEC Awards $600K To Tipster In Paradigm Retaliation Case

Jordan A. Thomas recently commented on a case in which the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) gave its highest possible award to a hedge fund adviser whistleblower, capitalizing on the firm’s retaliation against him to send another welcoming message to would-be whistleblowers and a warning to companies. The SEC last year charged the hedge...

SEC Gives More Than $600,000 to Whistleblower in Retaliation Case

The Wall Street Journal

Jordan A. Thomas recently commented on a case in which the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) gave its highest possible award to a hedge fund adviser whistleblower, capitalizing on the firm’s retaliation against him to send another welcoming message to would-be whistleblowers and a warning to companies. The SEC last year charged the hedge...

The whistleblower’s tale: How an accountant took on Halliburton

Tony Menendez had no legal training, but he decided to represent himself in his appeal. For the next few years, he devoted thousands of hours of his time filing briefs, meeting deadlines, countering Halliburton’s team of white-shoe lawyers. Halliburton threw everything at Menendez. It argued that since the SEC hadn’t brought any enforcement action, his...

Blowing the Whistle: Former Employee’s Suit Against TPG Invokes Whistleblower Provision in Dodd-Frank

TPG Capital’s legal fight with its former spokesman, Adam Levine, may seem a bit lopsided. After all, TPG Capital manages $67 billion as one of the largest private equity firms in the world. Levine is, well, just one man. But Levine holds at least one possible ace: Jordan Thomas, the lead attorney for Levine, joined...

SEC Reviewing 12b-1 Fees

At a recent DC Bar event, Jordan A. Thomas, Chair of [prior firm][‘s] Whistleblower Practice as well as the Investor Rights Committee for the DC Bar, moderated a panel on the topic titled, “Straight Talk for Asset Managers and Their Counsel.” Jordan noted that the whistleblowers who are now coming forward are “more senior” and...

TPG Capital Threatened To ‘Gut’ Whistleblower ‘Like A Carp,’ Lawsuit Claims

Huffington Post

In a recent law suit involving a former head of public affairs for private equity firm TPG Capital, Jordan A. Thomas represents a whistleblower alleging that TPG improperly charged investors for expenses that should have been paid by the firm. The whistleblower claims he sent an email warning about the illegal practice to TPG’s chief...

SEC Declares Open Season on Employee Agreements

In several recent articles, former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) official Jordan A. Thomas commented on the SEC’s first action against a company penalizing the technology and engineering firm KBR for forcing employees to sign “restrictive” confidentiality agreements. According to Jordan, “These problematic agreements are widespread and growing.” “The use of employment agreements to silence...

SEC Says Confidentiality Agreements May Have ‘Muzzled’ Whistleblowers at Top Government Contractor

The Washington Post

In several recent articles, former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) official Jordan A. Thomas commented on the SEC’s first action against a company penalizing the technology and engineering firm KBR for forcing employees to sign “restrictive” confidentiality agreements. According to Jordan, “These problematic agreements are widespread and growing.” “The use of employment agreements to silence...

SEC Fires Warning Shot About Confidentiality Agreements

The New York Times

In several recent articles, former Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) official Jordan A. Thomas commented on the SEC’s first action against a company penalizing the technology and engineering firm KBR for forcing employees to sign “restrictive” confidentiality agreements. According to Jordan, “These problematic agreements are widespread and growing.” “The use of employment agreements to silence...

2014 Annual Report on the Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Program

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February 25, 2015

New York’s Top Cop Wants to Pay and Protect Whistle-Blowers

The New York attorney general is seeking to build support among New York lawmakers for his proposal, which would allow for rewards if information from whistleblowers leads to penalties and fines of more than $1 million. “This is a very strong endorsement of the SEC’s program, and more cops on the Wall Street beat can...

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Whistleblowers Represented by Jordan Thomas Earn Largest SEC Whistleblower Awards in History

New York, NY (March 19, 2018) – The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it will award a group of whistleblowers more than $83 million, the largest awards announced since the SEC Whistleblower Program was established seven years ago. Represented by Jordan Thomas, the whistleblowers’ tips led to a landmark enforcement action that resulted in Merrill...

Once an SEC Regulator, Now Thriving as a Lawyer for Whistleblowers

The New York Times

In a profile piece published in The New York Times, Whistleblower Practice Chair Jordan A. Thomas talks about his decision to travel “the road not taken,” and how it has benefited those in difficult professional positions. After dealing with a traumatic upbringing and seeking emancipation from his parents at the age of 15, Thomas went...

2019 Half-Time Report
The SEC Whistleblower Program: Where Wall Street Answers to Main Street

We are pleased to bring our clients and friends a midyear report to highlight key awards, trends and issues of import in the SEC whistleblower arena. It’s an exciting time for whistleblowers, and, by extension, investors at large. Since the program’s roll-out, the Commission has received nearly 30,000 tips from 119 countries. Most remarkable, as...

Articles & Perspectives

NPR Features Jordan Thomas on Planet Money Podcast, “The Whistleblower Whisperer”

NPR Planet Money

Leading SEC whistleblower attorney Jordan Thomas was featured on NPR’s Planet Money podcast. In the episode “The Whistleblower Whisperer,” Jordan tells Planet Money co-host Jacob Goldstein about his work representing whistleblowers who provided evidence to the SEC that led to landmark enforcement actions against Wall Street’s biggest banks, including Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan. Jordan also...

October 5, 2018

Jordan A. Thomas Named Whistleblower “Lawyer of the Year”

New York, NY – October 5, 2018 – [Jordan Thomas][prior firm][‘s] is pleased to announce that its leading SEC whistleblower attorney Jordan A. Thomas, a principal architect of the SEC Whistleblower Program who established the nation’s first law practice exclusively focused on SEC whistleblowers, has been named a 2018 “Lawyer of the Year” by the Taxpayers...

Named one of the top whistleblower practices/attorneys in the country by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR and The New Yorker

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