Gina Castellano is a partner in Cadwalader’s White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice with deep experience supervising complex investigations of individuals and corporations involving, among others, various financial crimes, including insider trading, market manipulation, accounting fraud, investment adviser fraud, cryptocurrency-related fraud, and money laundering.

Gina spent eight years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where she prosecuted white collar cases as a member of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force.  She has supervised dozens of criminal cases, led six criminal trials, and argued on multiple occasions  before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In her role as a senior member of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, she was responsible for leading investigations and prosecutions of high-profile matters in a variety of industries and managing relationships with stakeholders at the SEC and CFTC, as well as federal law enforcement agencies. She also served as an acting supervisor of the Violent & Organized Crime Unit, where she supervised over 20 Assistant U.S. Attorneys in various investigations and prosecutions.

She also has been a Lecturer in Law at Columbia University School of Law, teaching the seminar component of the Federal Prosecution Externship.