Brian R. Young

Brian Young has years of experience serving in high-level government positions prosecuting criminal and civil enforcement matters involving fraud, market manipulation, and anticompetitive conduct in regulated markets. Brian is an accomplished commodities enforcement litigator with more than a decade of experience handling civil and criminal commodities fraud matters. During his tenure at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), he implemented groundbreaking policies for awarding mitigation credit for self-reporting and cooperation, presided over multimillion dollar whistleblower awards, and spearheaded the reorganization of the agency's enforcement task forces.

As the highest-ranking career official in the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Antitrust Division's Litigation Program, Brian was responsible for oversight of civil and criminal antitrust litigation, including civil antitrust conduct cases brought under the Sherman Act, merger challenges brought under the Clayton Act, and criminal prosecutions related to price-fixing, bid rigging, and market allocation schemes.

At the DOJ's Fraud Section, he tried some of the most significant commodities fraud cases in recent memory, including criminal jury trials involving the manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR); frontrunning of multibillion dollar foreign exchange (FX) transactions; and "spoofing" in the precious metals futures markets. In addition, as the supervisor of the Fraud Section's procurement fraud docket, Brian developed extensive experience in conducting parallel criminal and civil investigations into fraud on federal government programs. He began his career with DOJ in the Civil Division, where he handled civil False Claims Act matters. While at DOJ, Brian tried 12 multiweek criminal and civil fraud jury trials.