New York Broker Fraud and Securities Arbitration Attorneys

Law Office of Christopher J. Gray, P.C.

460 Park Avenue, 21st Floor
New York, New York 10022
USA

(212) 838-3221 or (866) 966-9598

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The Law Office of Christopher J. Gray, P.C. is an experienced firm in New York City.

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InvestorLawyers.net is a website dedicated to informing public investors about their rights to recover money from dishonest stockbrokers and investment advisers. InvestorLawyers.net also gives investors the opportunity to contact lawyers with years of experience in successfully prosecuting or resolving investor claims both in the courts and in FINRA arbitration. All lawyers featured on InvestorLawyers.net have a policy of providing a confidential, no-cost or obligation initial consultation to public investors so that investors can determine whether they may have a valid claim that is worth pursuing.

Christopher J. Gray, the principal of Law Office of Christopher J. Gray, P.C. and lead sponsor of Investorlawyers.net, has spent most of his career representing individuals and small businesses in complex litigation, arbitration, class actions, and trials and appeals in state and federal court. Specifically, he has significant experience representing investors in arbitration proceedings before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”, formerly the National Association of Securities Dealers) and the National Futures Association and has obtained substantial recoveries in a number of cases.

Mr. Gray holds a J.D. degree from Georgetown and a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin.
Mr. Gray has significant experience representing investors in arbitration proceedings before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”, formerly the National Association of Securities Dealers) and the National Futures Association and has obtained substantial recoveries in a number of cases. In 2011 Mr. Gray obtained a recovery of $765,000 on behalf of investors who alleged that respondent brokerage firm had sold them volatile mortgage REITs via misrepresentations and omissions of material fact. See Raubvogel v. Credit Suisse, FINRA Case No. 09-02906. In 2008 alone, Mr. Gray obtained two arbitration awards at trial for investors in which the sums awarded substantially exceeded the investors’ actual losses in the accounts with the brokerage firms. See, e.g., Meier v. U.S .Financial Group, Inc., National Futures Association Arbitration No. 07-01185 (awarding investor defrauded by “churning” and excessive commissions a refund of all of his losses, plus additional punitive damages, jointly and severally against introducing brokerage firm and its employees and owners).

In court, Mr. Gray has also achieved notable results for his clients in many instances. In 2011, Mr. Gray and co-counsel obtained a pre-judgment attachment of $72.4 million against a master fund entity (Amaranth LLC) associated with the now-defunct hedge fund known as Amaranth. The Amaranth master fund had sought to distribute the $72.4 million to its feeder fund investors (including offshore entities) and also to its former employees as deferred compensation. See In re Amaranth Natural Gas Commodities Litig., No. 07-CV-6377 (SAS).

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Practice Areas

Additional Practice Areas: Broker Fraud & Securities Arbitration

Practice Areas Description

- Broker Fraud & Securities Arbitration

Investors who lose money as the result of careless mistakes or intentional fraud by their stockbrokers or financial advisers may be eligible to recover their losses through a process known as arbitration. Arbitration claims can involve all types of investments, including stocks, bonds, annuities, and mutual funds.

Most customer claims against stockbrokers and financial “advisers” or “consultants” are required to be brought in arbitration before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, also known as “FINRA.” rather than in court. The cases take about one year to complete and are decided at a hearing before either one or three arbitrators, depending on the size of the claim. Hearings are held throughout the United States. The arbitrators come from all walks of life but are predominantly active or retired attorneys and securities industry professionals who are appointed with the input of the parties.

Approximately 60% (or six out of ten) FINRA arbitration cases nationwide are resolved via settlement. Of the cases that go to a final hearing before the arbitrators, claimants and public investors have historically won about half and lost about half.