Fritz Scanlon

Fritz Scanlon is a former federal prosecutor and seasoned trial lawyer who has tried several federal criminal cases to verdict, including those involving allegations of securities fraud, wire fraud, healthcare fraud, money laundering, and violations of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute.  Mr. Scanlon has also led significant civil cases, international arbitrations, and judgment enforcement matters.

Mr. Scanlon’s practice focuses on representing companies and individuals in government investigations, corporate crises, internal investigations, criminal indictments, judgment enforcement proceedings, and other significant business and legal matters. 

Before joining Quinn Emanuel, Mr. Scanlon was an Assistant Chief in the U.S. Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Fraud Section.  In that capacity, he supervised dozens of prosecutors across the country who investigated and prosecuted some of the largest and most complex white-collar cases in the nation, including corporate and multi-jurisdictional frauds.  Mr. Scanlon also personally investigated and prosecuted a wide variety of defendants, including former NFL players who defrauded a league benefit plan of millions of dollars, the owner of a major Washington-state cattle ranch who defrauded a publicly traded company of nearly $250 million, and the owners of a Miami financial advisory firm who defrauded banks and investors of over $150 million.  Mr. Scanlon also led two corporate resolutions with publicly traded healthcare companies whose employees and agents defrauded public and private victims of tens of millions of dollars.

Prior to his time in the government, Mr. Scanlon practiced at two international law firms, where he represented clients in a wide variety of criminal, civil, and arbitral matters.  Among many others, Mr. Scanlon represented the former CFO of a publicly traded company at his trial on federal securities fraud charges, a major oil and gas company in its international arbitrations against a South American state and its state-owned oil company, and multiple companies and individuals in various civil disputes spanning dozens of jurisdictions around the world, including major judgment enforcement proceedings in the United States.