Jacob Frenkel
Attorney at Law
Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker, P.A.

Jacob S. Frenkel is a shareholder at Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker, P.A. in Potomac, Maryland.  Mr. Frenkel chairs the Securities Enforcement, Government Investigations and White Collar Crime Practice Group in the Commercial Litigation Department and the Corporate Investigations, Governance and Risk Management Practice Group in the Business and Finance Department.  Mr. Frenkel’s practice emphasizes the representation of corporations and their officers, directors and other senior officials in federal and state securities investigations, proceedings before stock exchanges and capital markets self-regulatory organizations, and federal and state criminal investigations, including financial crimes and public corruption, and investigations by committees of the United States Congress.  Mr. Frenkel conducts internal investigations for public, non-public and nonprofit corporations, and represents individuals in internal investigations.

In the area of corporate governance and counseling, Mr. Frenkel serves as an independent counsel to advise Audit Committees and officers and directors of companies in connection with their obligations, including under the Sarbanes-Oxley, Dodd-Frank and Foreign Corrupt Practices Acts, as well as USA PATRIOT Act compliance.  Mr. Frenkel is an independent counsel to a Corporate Monitor.  Mr. Frenkel also provides strategic advice to early stage, privately-held companies planning to go public and smaller publicly-held companies, and established companies considering growth and exit avenues.  His clients include individuals, Boards of Directors and their committees, and corporations, including, privately-held and publicly-held companies on United States and foreign securities markets, broker-dealers, stock transfer agents, and hedge funds.

Mr. Frenkel’s 25 years practicing law includes 14 years as a prosecutor, serving as an Assistant District Attorney in New Orleans, senior counsel in the Division of Enforcement at SEC headquarters in Washington where he specialized in stock manipulation and financial fraud cases and a federal criminal prosecutor in federal securities law-related and public corruption cases for the Office of Independent Counsel, in re Secretary of Agriculture Espy.  Mr. Frenkel lectures and publishes widely in his practice areas and frequently provides expert commentary for domestic and foreign wire services, newspapers, and radio and television networks about major financial fraud cases, SEC practice, internal investigations, corporate governance, and related legislation.