Joshua Nichols is an Associate in Vedder Price’s Litigation practice area. He focuses extensively on defending corporations, officers and directors in government investigations. He has defended investigations by the DOJ, SEC, SIGTARP, OCC, CFTC and Illinois Securities Department, and has served as lead associate in the defense of 33 current and former bank directors and officers against FDIC investigations and claims totaling over $279 million.

Additionally, Mr. Nichols counsels and represents clients on a wide variety of business and commercial disputes, including actions for breach of contract, securities fraud, restrictive-covenant violations and director and officer liability, in both state and federal court as well as before FINRA and the American Arbitration Association. 

Mr. Nichols also drafts complex EB-1 immigrant petitions and O-1 nonimmigrant petitions for outstanding researchers, professors and individuals with extraordinary ability.