Aari Itzkowitz

Aari Itzkowitz represents public corporations, private companies, broker dealers, and high-net-worth individuals before state and federal courts and alternative dispute resolution forums, encompassing a wide range of litigation, advisory and regulatory matters.  He brings to bear more than 20 years’ experience finding practical, real-world solutions as he aggressively asserts and defends his clients’ interests and he has achieved favorable resolutions of seemingly intractable and highly contentious disputes.

Aari focuses on complex commercial and securities litigation, judgment enforcement matters, and SEC and FINRA enforcement actions. His experience in other areas includes internal corporate investigations, commercial and regulatory arbitrations, and advising clients on a variety of regulatory and compliance matters and best practices.

Clients prize Aari’s practical-minded approach to litigation. He consistently formulates realistic legal strategies and provides real-world advice, given a client’s particular needs and the unique circumstances of a matter.

Prior to joining Wilk Auslander in 2010, Aari was an associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, where his practice focused on complex litigation and regulatory enforcement.

• Successfully defended a public company against a hostile investor’s efforts to take over the company.
• Obtained numerous dismissals of multimillion-dollar securities class-action lawsuits alleging violations of the federal securities laws concerning an investment bank’s underwriting of public stock offerings for Chinese corporations listed on U.S. stock exchanges.
• Preserved an investment banking client’s intellectual property rights in certain proprietary trading technology in a lawsuit against a developer. 
• Secured dismissal, affirmed by the Ninth Circuit, of a class action lawsuit alleging improper communications between a broker-dealer’s research and investment banking divisions.
• Achieved the successful resolution of multi-year FINRA investigation into a broker-dealer concerning potential improper trading.