Allie Fixsen joined the firm's litigation and enforcement practice group in 2018. She represents clients in an array of government enforcement matters and complex commercial disputes, with a focus on asset management clients facing regulatory inquiries, enforcement actions, internal investigations, and litigation related to federal securities laws. Allie’s clients include investment advisers, broker-dealers, hedge funds, and public companies. She regularly collaborates with colleagues in the firm’s corporate practice groups to provide clients with comprehensive legal services. She also maintains an active pro bono practice in immigration and housing matters.
During law school, Allie served as a judicial extern to Justice Scott L. Kafker of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, as a senior editor on the Boston College Law Review, and as a research assistant to Professor Mary Sarah Bilder. She competed in and won the 2018 J. Braxton Craven, Jr. Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition at UNC, where her team won the best brief award. Allie was also a member of the Boston College Civil Litigation Clinic. Before law school, Allie worked for the federal government.
Experience
- Advises global asset managers and broker-dealers regarding the collateral consequences of regulatory and criminal sanctions.
- Represents investment adviser in connection with ongoing SEC investigation related to ESG.
- Represents U.S.-based broker-dealer of large Latin American investment bank in connection with ongoing FINRA enforcement action related to supervisory requirements and AML policies and procedures.
- Completed secondment providing advice and support to global asset manager in connection with major DOJ and SEC enforcement actions and internal investigation related to alleged securities fraud.
- Represented global asset manager in connection with major SEC enforcement action related to the underperformance, and eventual liquidation of, several large hedge funds pursuing an options-based alpha strategy that significantly underperformed during the COVID-19 market downturn and several dozen related lawsuits brought by institutional investors seeking billions of dollars in recoveries.
- Assisted private equity sponsors and portfolio companies in identifying, assessing, and mitigating antitrust, corruption, sanctions, and money-laundering risks related to various transactions and investments.
- Successfully defended multinational energy company before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, obtaining a unanimous decision upholding client's multimillion dollar property tax exemption. (Veolia Energy Boston v. Board of Assessors of Boston, 483 Mass. 108 (2019)).