Robert Seiden-The Daily Ledger

Robert W. Seiden is an American former prosecutor, lawyer, global investigator, court-appointed receiver, integrity monitor and founder of Seiden Law LLP, a litigation and sanctions-focused law firm. Seiden is also the vice chairman of a private clean energy company, GreenMet. He has been dubbed a "Wall Street Bounty Hunter" by The New York Times and profiled by The Wall Street Journal and Institutional Investor for his prosecution on behalf of investors against Chinese companies that went dark taking hundreds of millions of dollars from US and foreign investors, including China Sun Group High Tech, China Valves Technology, Sino Clean Energy and Shengtai Pharmaceutical Inc.

Career

Raised in Brooklyn, Seiden attended New York City public schools and received his bachelor's degree from New York University in 1985 and his J.D. from Benjamin Cardozo School of Law in 1988. Until 1999, Seiden worked as a prosecutorial trial lawyer alongside fellow prosecutors including overlapping with John F. Kennedy Jr. and under the leadership of legendary prosecutor Robert Morgenthau at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in New York City. He represents the Sherman family in the investigation into the double murder case of Canadian billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman in Toronto and previously served as the initial prosecutor in People v. Edmund Ko involving the murder of a Columbia University law student by her ex-boyfriend, who was convicted using an "ear witness" and the results of mitochondrial DNA typing.

Robert Seiden

In 2008, after working at a private investigations company as CEO for eight years, Seiden founded Confidential Global Investigations, an investigations firm that investigated Sino Clean Energy', fraudulent behavior against their investors in China. In 2009, Seiden founded Seiden Law, an international law firm based in Manhattan specializing in complex commercial and business litigation, OFAC and sanctions cases, receiverships, and cross-border transactions.

Robert Seiden

Since 2008, Seiden has represented a variety of industries and industry leaders, including David Baazov, CEO of Amaya Inc.; Teddy Sagi, the founder of software gaming company Playtech; George Logothetis, chairman of Libra Group; shipping magnate Nobu Su; crypto billionaire Harry Yeh, hedge fund managers Gentry Beach and Robert Vollero. Seiden's international work has included legal work with African nations such as Malawi and Egypt; working on behalf of the Israeli Court against Michael David Greenfield and on behalf of retired IDF General Israel Ziv to assist with his removal from US economic sanctions as well as on behalf of the government of Lazarus Chakwera, president of Malawi to help recover monies defrauded from Malawi by a US citizen charged in New Jersey. Seiden also led the legal team that sued Omar Khan for the theft of millions from wealthy Americans such as Renaissance Technologies alumni Kresimir Penavic and others in a wine Ponzi scheme. Seiden represents global mining company Solway Investment Group in the US Global Magnitsky sanctions case against its Guatemalan subsidiaries for alleged ties to Russia and corruption and led the effort to allow disprove these facts and secured permission for its mining operations to resume by securing a OFAC license from the US Treasury.

Robert Seiden

He has been appointed court receiver more than 30 times for companies such as Link Motion, China Sun Group, Sino Clean Energy, Shengtai Pharmaceutical Inc, and Southern China Livestock. Seiden has been the only American allowed to list companies on China's CBEX.

Further, Seiden has had various published articles in Law 360 and the New York Law Journal including “Private Investigator: Application of the Attorney-Client Privilege,” “How Lawyers and Investigators work Together Post-Enron,” and “Tips for Obtaining Removal from OFAC’s Sanctions List”.