Douglass B. Maynard represents clients in government and regulatory investigations and litigation, corporate investigations and complex civil litigation. Mr. Maynard has extensive experience representing public companies, investment funds and individuals in a variety of criminal and regulatory matters, including insider trading, foreign corrupt practices, kickbacks and antitrust. He also has experience litigating bankruptcy issues and was lead litigation counsel for the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the WorldCom Chapter 11 proceedings.
In the past several years, Mr. Maynard has handled the following representative matters—
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represented an investment fund in public pension fund investigation
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represented a major investment bank in connection with federal and state mortgage fraud investigations
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on behalf of the audit committee of a multinational public company, conducted an internal investigation of the alleged criminal conduct of a former executive and related matters
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represented a public company in connection with DOJ and SEC investigations involving the U.N. Oil for Food program
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defended the chief executive officer of a public company in connection with DOJ and SEC investigations of alleged improper accounting and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations
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defended the former CEO of a public company in connection with DOJ and SEC investigations of alleged bribery, improper accounting and disclosure practices
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on behalf of an investment fund, conducted an internal investigation of alleged insider trading.
Mr. Maynard also has significant experience handling libel and other media law cases. He represents book and magazine publishers and cable companies. He recently won summary judgment for his publisher client in a rigorously litigated libel case arising out of Blonde Ambition, a book about the life and death of Anna Nicole Smith. Prior to joining Akin Gump, Mr. Maynard was associate general counsel of Time Inc., where he actively litigated cases in a variety of areas, including libel, copyright, trademark, antitrust and consumer marketing. While at Time Inc. he tried two libel cases to verdict, one for Time magazine and one for Sports Illustrated magazine.
Mr. Maynard served for six years as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. He investigated and prosecuted federal cases involving RICO violations, drug trafficking, bank fraud, money laundering, murder and other crimes. Mr. Maynard focused on Russian organized crime cases and was one of the first to use the RICO statute to prosecute Russian criminals whose criminal enterprises operated in the United States, Europe and Russia.
Mr. Maynard received his J.D. in 1986 from the New York University Law School and his B.A. cum laude in 1982 from Yale University. He is a member of the New York and Connecticut bars.
Mr. Maynard served two terms as a member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Appellate Division, First Judicial Department of New York. He currently serves as a Referee in Disciplinary Committee proceedings. He is on the board of directors of the Fund for Modern Courts.