Frank Scaduto

Frank is a versatile commercial litigator. As a member of the Washington, D.C., California, and New York bars, he focuses on cases at the intersection of government regulation, technological innovation, and financial markets.

Frank represents companies, executives, boards of directors, trade associations, political organizations, and nonprofits in litigation, arbitration, investigations, and government enforcement actions. He has successfully tried cases, won appeals, and secured favorable dismissals and settlements in bet-the-company matters and complex, high-stakes litigation across the country.

Frank regularly assists clients with novel developments in law and technology, including matters concerning crypto, AI, blockchain, smart contracts, data centers, robocalling, fintech, and financial products and derivatives. He also has significant experience handling commercial and securities litigation, investigations, and regulatory proceedings involving financial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance issues, shareholder derivative clams, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duties, fraud, government contracts, and antitrust issues. He often litigates against the DOJ, SEC, FTC, FCC, and state AGs.

In addition to his active litigation practice, Frank teaches legal writing and oral advocacy at The George Washington University Law School.

Representative Matters

• Representing a senior executive of a major technology company and online retailer in one of the largest consumer protection suits ever brought by the FTC under the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act (ROSCA).
• Representing a telecommunications company in litigation arising out of the use of robocalling and AI deepfake technology in political elections.
• Representing a crypto mining business in commercial litigation arising out of the acquisition and construction of a High-Performance Computing (HPC) data center.
• Representing a software developer in a lawsuit that sought to blame the company for financial losses at the hands of third parties who used its trading platform to engage in an alleged “pig butchering” scam involving cryptocurrency trading.
• Representing national political organizations for alleged violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and similar state statutes based on campaign text messages.
• Representing a provider of AI cloud services and data centers in M&A litigation concerning purchase-price adjustments under a stock purchase agreement.
• Representing a telecommunications company in False Claims Act litigation concerning FCC spectrum auction fraud.
• Representing a television broadcasting company in antitrust litigation with respect to retransmission consent fees.
• Representing a mutual bank in litigation to defend against a hostile takeover attempt.
• Representing telecommunications companies in litigation and regulatory proceedings involving the deployment of broadband infrastructure, wireless facility siting, joint use, and pole attachment issues.
• Representing corporations, officers, and directors in investigations and enforcement actions by the SEC, DOJ, FINRA, and other regulators for insider trading, securities fraud, and defense procurement fraud.
• Representing issuers, underwriters, and accountants in private securities class action litigation under Rule 10b-5 and provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, Exchange Act of 1934, and other U.S. securities laws and regulations.

Professional Experience

• Professorial Lecturer in Law, The George Washington University Law School (2014-Present)

Affiliations

• American Bar Association (ABA)
• Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA)