Nadav Ariel
Counsel
Biography
Nadav Ariel is counsel in the Washington, D.C., office of Buckley LLP. Mr. Ariel represents corporate and individual clients in financial services and white collar litigation and enforcement matters. He has experience representing clients before the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and in federal and state courts around the country.
Mr. Ariel also has extensive experience assisting clients in matters involving complex electronic discovery issues, such as large-scale document collection, developing effective document retention policies, and utilizing cutting-edge technology (including technology-assisted review) to reduce review and production costs.
Representative matters:
- Defending financial institutions against litigation and government investigations brought under the False Claims Act
- Representing a Japanese gaming company and its subsidiary in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) related civil litigation and in parallel government investigations. The case involved one of the first examples of a private party alleging FCPA violations as a method to gain the upper hand in a contract dispute, and resulted in the firm securing a $2.6 billion settlement for its clients
- Defending financial institutions in class action litigation and government investigations alleging unfair and deceptive business practices, fraud, conspiracy, and violations of federal laws, including the Truth in Lending Act (TILA), the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), and the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO)
- Defending mortgage servicers and lender-placed insurance providers in class actions regarding lender-placed insurance practices
- Representing corporate and individual clients in internal investigations
Prior to joining Buckley, Mr. Ariel was an Associate at an Am Law 200 firm, where his practice focused, among other things, on representing mortgage lenders and servicers in individual and putative class actions involving state and federal lending laws including the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), the Truth in Lending Act (TILA), and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA).
Mr. Ariel received his J.D. from Harvard University in 2009 (cum laude), where he served as Articles Editor for the Civil Rights Civil Liberties Law Review. He received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina (with highest honors, Phi Beta Kappa) in 2006.
In The News
Buckley Sandler Announces Six Promotions for 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 17, 2018) – Buckley Sandler LLP today announced the promotion of six associates in three of its offices to counsel, effective Jan. 1, 2018. “These six attorneys have worked diligently on behalf of our clients and are well deserving of promotion to counsel, “ said Andrew L...
Press Releases
Publications
"When the government wants to cut and run, but a judge won’t be a rubber stamp" by Nadav Ariel
Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia turned political and judicial heads by refusing to immediately rubber stamp the government’s decision to drop the prosecution of Michael Flynn after it had already obtained a guilty plea. However, he is not the first...
Buckley Commentary & Analysis"Double Jeopardy in cross-border investigations" by Nadav Ariel
The growth in cross-border criminal investigations has intensified the risk of overlapping prosecutions by multiple countries, potentially resulting in duplicative prison sentences and/or fines. Some countries recognize that multiple punishments for the same conduct are unjust and have taken...
Buckley Commentary & Analysis"Why doesn’t McDonnell apply to foreign bribery?" by Nadav Ariel
Two circuit courts recently concluded that the Supreme Court’s McDonnell decision, which limited the scope of acts that constitute domestic bribery, does not apply in cases alleging bribery of foreign officials. The immediate consequence of the decisions from the U.S. Court of Appeals...
Buckley Commentary & Analysis"DOJ corporate enforcement guidelines are placing individual defendants between a rock and a whirlpool" by David S. Krakoff, Nadav Ariel, and Bradley A. Marcus (Business Crimes Bulletin)
For companies suspected of wrongdoing, cooperating with Department of Justice (DOJ) investigations and selfdisclosing their misconduct often appears to be their only option to avoid prosecution and reduce large financial penalties. But, these benefits often come at a price, especially to company...
ArticlesValidating the Validation Set
Predictive coding is becoming increasingly prevalent in fulfilling discovery obligations in litigation and in response to regulatory inquiries. As the process gains acceptance, parties, regulators and courts debate whether producing parties should be required to disclose documents and coding...
Articles
Education
- J.D., Harvard University, 2009 (cum laude)
- B.A., University of North Carolina, 2006 (with honors, Phi Beta Kappa)
Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Michigan
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan