Frank Amanat is a partner at DiCello Levitt Gutzler LLC and has almost three decades of litigation expertise, shepherding the largest single recovery the Department of Justice has ever obtained in a civil penalty action filed under FIRREA.

Frank Amanat is a veteran litigator with over 29 years of experience in a broad range of complex legal matters, with particular expertise in areas of constitutional and administrative law, as well as class action litigation, complex and mass torts, financial fraud, regulatory fraud, health care fraud, pharmaceutical litigation, False Claims Act litigation, asset forfeiture, civil rights, environmental, labor and employment, bankruptcy, and immigration. He regularly addresses legal issues of considerable complexity and importance, and litigate, or provide legal advice on, significant questions of constitutional, statutory, and common law. At DiCello Levitt Gutzler, he specializes in representing victims of fraudulent and illegal conduct, as well as whistleblowers, governmental entities, and other plaintiffs, in a wide range of complex litigation, including class actions and multidistrict litigation, focusing on financial and securities fraud, health care fraud, civil rights, mass torts, and other commercial litigation.

Prior to joining DiCello Levitt Gutzler, Frank spent 24 years at the Department of Justice, including more than two decades as an Assistant United States Attorney and then Senior Counsel at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn), plus stints at the Office of Legal Policy and the Office of Immigration Litigation. From 2013 to 2018, Frank served as lead counsel for the Government in the successful investigation and prosecution of Barclays Bank and two of its former executives for fraud in connection with the sale of residential mortgage‐backed securities (RMBS); the $2 billion settlement, reached in early 2018, is the largest single recovery the Department of Justice has ever obtained in a civil penalty action filed under FIRREA.

Education: Harvard Law School, J.D. cum laude, University of Pennsylvania, B.A. summa cum laude, Editor, The Harvard Law Review, Volumes 103‐04