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Mr. Raissi is a San Francisco-based partner at Shartsis Friese LLP and Chair of the Firm’s Securities Enforcement Defense Group. Before joining the Firm, Mr. Raissi was a Senior Counsel in the Division of Enforcement of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. In private practice, Mr. Raissi has represented companies and individuals before federal and state securities regulators, criminal prosecutors, SROs, and in private litigation. He has extensive experience with hundreds of government investigations and litigated cases involving public companies, insider trading, as well as those involving investment advisers, hedge funds, venture capital and private equity firms, broker-dealers, investment companies, custodians, admin.