Stephen Frank Bio

Steve Frank, a nationally recognized former federal prosecutor, is a member of the Firm’s Investigations, Government Enforcement and White Collar Criminal Defense Group. He is resident in the Firm’s Boston and New York offices. An acclaimed trial lawyer, Mr. Frank represents companies and individuals in investigations by regulators and law enforcement authorities in the United States and around the world, as well as in high-stakes civil litigation, including securities, patent, antitrust, and other commercial disputes. Mr. Frank also provides advice and counsel to corporate entities in connection with the design, testing, and implementation of corporate compliance programs. Prior to joining Quinn Emanuel, Mr. Frank served for nearly 17 years as a federal prosecutor in New York and Boston, where he served in various leadership capacities, including as the longtime Chief of the Securities, Financial & Cyber Fraud Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. In that role, he led a team of more than a dozen federal prosecutors and investigators responsible for investigating and prosecuting a variety of complex financial crimes, including securities and investment fraud, tax fraud, money laundering, and violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). While at the Department of Justice, Mr. Frank served as lead trial counsel in some of the most significant white collar prosecutions of recent years, including “Operation Varsity Blues,” a groundbreaking case that secured the conviction of more than 50 individuals in the largest college admissions scandal ever prosecuted, for which Mr. Frank received the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service. Mr. Frank also led the investigation and prosecution of a prominent Russian businessman in one of the largest hack-to-trade cases ever charged, and the prosecution of several senior executives of the world’s largest custody bank in connection with a scheme to overcharge pension funds for billions of dollars’ worth of securities trades. In the course of his work, Mr. Frank oversaw corporate resolutions with numerous multinational companies. At the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, Mr. Frank was a member of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, where he was part of the trial team that secured the conviction and life sentence of the acting boss of the Bonanno Crime Family. Earlier in his career, Mr. Frank was an award-winning financial reporter at the Wall Street Journal and CNBC, where he appeared regularly on the network’s flagship morning program, Squawk Box. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Mr. Frank was only the third person in Harvard University history to be selected to deliver both the undergraduate and graduate orations at the university-wide Commencement ceremonies. Following his graduation from law school, he worked as an associate at a law firm in New York and clerked for the Honorable Robert D. Sack on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.