Honigman LLP has announced that Mark Cipolletti joined the firm as a partner in the firm’s White Collar Defense Practice Group of the Litigation Department. He joins Honigman from Thompson Hine and brings more than a decade of experience with the U.S. Department of Justice, where he served as Principal Assistant Chief of Litigation in the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and helped lead significant fraud and white collar enforcement matters.
Mark Cipolletti’s practice focuses on complex financial crimes, white collar matters, and government investigations, including securities law violations, market manipulation, investment fraud, False Claims Act matters, public corruption, cross-border crimes, money laundering, FCPA and ABAC violations, and other regulatory enforcement matters. He has tried more than 65 jury trials to verdict and previously served as an assistant district attorney in Philadelphia, where he handled hundreds of criminal trials involving homicide, sexual assault, and other felony offenses.
Cipolletti also served as Principal Assistant Chief of Litigation in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division Fraud Section. In that role, he supervised litigation, worked on high-profile cases, contributed to the development of the Fraud Section’s cryptocurrency and digital asset practice, and participated in the Department’s commodities enforcement initiative.
His government experience also included efforts to combat fraud against the government through data analytics and collaboration with agencies including the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. He has worked on matters involving criminal prosecution following civil regulatory proceedings and participated in a landmark investigation into clergy abuse in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Cipolletti earned his J.D. from Widener University School of Law and received his B.A. from Temple University.
Honigman is a full-service law firm with more than 400 attorneys advising clients on complex business, litigation, regulatory, and transactional matters throughout the United States. The firm has offices in Chicago, Detroit (with multiple locations throughout Michigan), Washington, DC, and Israel.
