Marino, Tortorella & Boyle, P.C., a four-lawyer litigation boutique considered by many to be the preeminent such firm in the New York metropolitan area, was founded by Kevin H. Marino in 1996. The firm is best known for the extraordinary results it has achieved, for both corporate entities and individuals, in a broad range of complex commercial and regulatory matters as well as government investigations and prosecutions. The firm also conducts internal corporate investigations and advises companies and individuals on strategic business decisions.

In the past year, the firm has convinced the Supreme Court of New Jersey to suspend the suspension imposed by the Disciplinary Review Board on the managing partner of a prominent South Jersey law firm charged with improper fee-sharing in a long-pending attorney ethics case; recovered more than $50 million from a major investment bank for an investor whose funds were improperly invested in auction-rate securities; won a probationary sentence and reinstatement to the National Hockey League for a former NHL All Star and current associate hockey coach charged with running an illegal gambling enterprise with a New Jersey state trooper; negotiated the settlement of a copyright infringement suit on behalf of an author whose original book was appropriated by a prominent filmmaker; and won an eight-figure settlement on behalf of a public utility whose insurer defaulted on two multi-million dollar environmental insurance policies. In recent years, the firm has steered a prominent hedge fund through a complex web of criminal investigations, an SEC enforcement action and a host of investor lawsuits and arbitrations in cases involving dollar losses in the hundreds of millions, persuading the United States Attorney in New York and New Jersey to refrain from indicting the entities or their principals; persuaded the SEC to take no action against two prominent political figures implicated in an insider trading probe; successfully represented senior executives at two prominent investment banks and a major insurance company in IPO allocation, market timing and broker commission investigations instituted by their respective firms, the SEC, the NASD and the New York Attorney General; successfully negotiated a first-of-its-kind consent order on behalf of a Utah-based internet pharmacy, winning the right to dispense specified legend drugs based on an online assessment tool; successfully brokered the settlement, during trial, of a multi-million dollar rescission action arising from the failed merger of two hospital holding companies; won summary judgment on behalf of one of New Jersey's largest law firms in a highly-visible employment action brought against the firm by one of its founding partners; won a multi-million dollar counterclaim on behalf of a small cookware importer following a two-week bench trial in federal district court in Iowa; won the acquittal of a physician charged with income tax evasion following a two-week jury trial in federal district court in New Jersey; won a no-cause verdict on behalf of a New Jersey municipality sued by the executor of a municipal detainee injured in a failed suicide attempt while in police custody; and negotiated an SEC settlement that preserved much of the profit earned by a 16-year-old Internet stock trader who was the youngest person ever to be charged by the S.E.C., a case that was the subject of a 60 Minutes segment, a cover story by the author Michael Lewis that appeared in The New York Times Magazine, and a segment of Mr. Lewis's book, Next: The Future Just Happened.

The firm is presently defending a hedge fund management company and its principal against allegations that they facilitated a multi-billion dollar fraud that led to the demise of one of the world's largest commodities brokerage firms; representing one of New Jersey's largest public companies in a multi-million dollar action against one of the world's largest insurance brokers; representing one of the country's largest commercial and residential real estate development companies in a multi-million dollar arbitration against a municipality that reneged on a redevelopment agreement; and representing numerous other companies and individuals in complex civil litigation and ongoing federal and state grand jury investigations.