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Patrick Cox

Patrick Cox

Patrick Cox is a Bates Consulting and Testifying Expert based in San Diego, California. Patrick uses his experience in Retail Securities, Investigations, Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Compliance to serve our financial services clients and their counsel. He also advises on technology compliance and due diligence matters, including artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies, for regulated entities.

Prior to joining Bates, Patrick was Executive Vice President and General Counsel for Advice, Litigation and Regulatory Strategy with LPL Financial where he was responsible for all litigation, regulatory, and legal advice matters for the firm’s business units. Patrick and his team oversaw or handled all litigation for the firm, including matters involving clients, financial professionals, and competing firms. They also represented LPL in regulatory inquiries, investigations and enforcement matters from the SEC, FINRA, CFTC, and U.S. states and territories.  

In addition, Patrick and his team conducted internal investigations for the firm’s integrity hotline and other matters, provided advice on technology and third-party risk obligations, and responded to customer complaints. He was an ex-officio member of the firm’s Risk Oversight Committee for many years and provided ongoing advice to members of the Management Committee with reports to the Board of Directors on special issues.  

Patrick spent 20 years representing Morgan Stanley, Ameriprise Financial, and LPL Financial and their employees, and he handled hundreds of matters ranging from wrongful termination, raiding, and recruiting, retail arbitrations, class actions, shareholder actions and internal investigations.  As a General Counsel, Deputy General Counsel, Chief Counsel, Chief Privacy Officer, and Head of Infrastructure Risk Management, he also worked on many due diligence and acquisition issues at LPL and Ameriprise.   

Prior to working in-house at Morgan Stanley, Patrick was a civil litigator, an Adjunct Associate Professor at Fordham University School of Law, a law clerk at the U.S. Court of International Trade, and an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan. He is an experienced executive and advocate who received his Juris Doctor from Fordham and his Bachelor of Arts in English from Loyola Marymount University.

Patrick is a consultant and subject matter expert in these Practice Areas and Services:

Credentials

EXPERIENCE

Winget Spadafora & Schwartzberg, LLP, Partner, New York, NY, 2024 – Present

Bates Group LLC, Testifying Expert and Consultant, San Diego, CA, 2022 – Present,

LPL Financial, Executive Vice President and General Counsel for Advice, Litigation and Regulatory Strategy -- Compliance, Legal and Risk, 2019 – 2021; Executive Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Advice, Litigation and Regulatory Strategy – Compliance, Legal and Risk, 2017 –2019; Executive/Senior Vice President and Chief Privacy Officer and Head of Infrastructure Risk Management, 2013 – 2017, San Diego, CA, 2013 – 2021

Morgan Stanley, Vice President and Senior Attorney in Employment and Recruiting, Purchase and New York, NY, 2002 – 2007

Fordham University School of Law, Adjunct Associate Professor, New York, NY, 1998 – 2005 (Concurrent)

Graubard Miller, Litigation Associate, New York, NY, 2001 – 2002

Kaye Scholer, LLP, Litigation Associate, New York, NY, 2000 – 2001

Graubard Mollen & Miller, Litigation Associate, New York, NY, 1999 – 2000

The Honorable Bernard Newman, Judicial Law Clerk, United States Court of International Trade and Southern District of New York (by designation), New York, NY, 1997 – 1999

Office of the District Attorney, Assistant District Attorney, Appeals Bureau and Civil Litigation Unit, New York, NY, 1995 – 1997

EDUCATION

Juris Doctor (JD), Fordham University School of Law, New York, NY

  • Lawrence J. McKay Advocacy Prize, Keith C. Miller Award, Editor-in-Chief of the Moot Court Board

Bachelor of Arts (BA), English, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA

  • Presidential Citation

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS/LICENSING

Bar Admissions

  • New York
  • Minnesota, Voluntary Inactive

AFFILIATIONS

SIFMA, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association

  • Past Member of General Counsels Committee
  • Past Chair of Privacy and Data Protection Subcommittee
  • Member of Whistleblower Response Panel at Compliance and Legal Society Annual Meeting
  • Frequent Speaker or Moderator for Compliance and Legal Seminar Panels

Financial Services Roundtable/BITS

  • Past Chair of Technology and Operations Regulatory Working Group