Greco & Greco, Securities Lawyers

Securities Lawyers

protecting investors' rights

Highly experienced

Nationwide practice

Mid-Atlantic base

Personal attention

Securities Fraud Attorneys

Greco & Greco's attorneys (licensed in Virginia, Maryland, and DC) have extensive experience representing investors in disputes with their stockbrokers, brokerage firms, financial planners, and investment advisors.

Our lawyers use this experience in arbitration and federal and state court to aggressively pursue recovery of investors' losses resulting from securities fraud, churning, lack of suitability, negligence, unauthorized trading, stockbroker malpractice, and other unlawful actions.  If you feel that you may have a claim, please contact us for a free consultation.

AV Preeminent Peer REview Rated firm

Greco & Greco is an AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated firm.

While we are based in the Mid-Atlantic (Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and Delaware area), Greco & Greco’s attorneys represent clients from across the country. Each client receives personal service from one of our principal attorneys. Read more...

Areas of Practice

  • Securities fraud, churning, unsuitable investments, unauthorized trading, and investors' rights
  • Claims against stockbrokers and brokerage firms
  • Securities arbitration and litigation
  • Ponzi schemes and hedge funds
  • FINRA arbitration
  • SEC securities fraud whistleblower claims
  • Claims by stockbrokers against their employers
  • Claims against registered investment advisors
  • Registered Representative commission disputes
  • Civil litigation

Contingency Fees

Greco & Greco regularly represents clients using a contingency fee arrangement. With a contingency fee, the only attorney’s fee paid by the clients is a percentage of monies recovered for the clients.


Greco & Greco has tried securities arbitration claims in all of the FINRA Dispute Resolution’s forum cities in the area (Washington, D.C., Richmond, Norfolk, and Baltimore) and we would be happy to discuss potential claims with residents from all areas of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, North Carolina, and Washington, DC, including Richmond, Norfolk, Roanoke, Virginia Beach, Alexandria, Fairfax, Arlington, Fredericksburg, Falls Church, Charlottesville, Lynchburg, Abington, Prince William, Loudoun, Leesburg, Manassas, Woodbridge, Dale City, Staunton, Chantilly, Danville, Bristol, Williamsburg, Hampton, Newport News, Winchester, Warrenton, Lexington, Baltimore, Rockville, Bethesda, Silver Spring, Prince George’s, Frederick, Annapolis, Ocean City, Columbia, Montgomery, the Eastern Shore, Salisbury, Cumberland, Easton, Petersburg, Herndon, Reston, Harrisonburg, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Chesapeake, Culpeper, Fauquier, Henrico, Sterling, Stafford, Hagerstown, and Gaithersburg, Wilmington, Dover, Charleston, Martinsburg, Parkersburg, Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham, Greensboro, and Asheville.

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For Investors

Do you need a securities fraud attorney?

Claims under which investors can recover their losses and other damages from a stock broker or brokerage firm include suitability, churning, fraud, unauthorized trading, margin disputes, Ponzi schemes. Read more...

What constitutes investment fraud?

Legal grounds for investment fraud include unsuitability, violations of State Securities Acts, breach of fiduciary duty, negligence, common law fraud, more...

Securities Law News

Unsuitable ETF Trading Results in Large Losses.

Our attorneys have represented many investors over the past several years who have suffered large amounts of losses in their securities accounts due to the improper and unsuitable trading of leveraged and inverse ETFs by their brokers.

SEC Fraud Charges Regarding the Nutmeg Group LLC

The SEC has filed civil fraud claims in Illinois against The Nutmeg Group, LLC and others.  Greco & Greco is currently representing investors seeking recovery of their related losses in FINRA arbitration.

SEC Adopts Securities Fraud Whistleblower Rules

The SEC recently approved final rules to govern its whistleblower program established pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.  The program has been established to encourage individuals to alert the SEC to evidence that helps the SEC in bringing securities fraud cases.

McLeod Ponzi Scheme Preys on Government Employees

The SEC filed an Emergency Complaint on June 24, 2010 against the Estate of Kenneth Wayne McLeod, F&S Asset Management Group, and Federal Employee Benefits Group, alleging that Mr. McLeod engaged in a ponzi scheme.

Medical Capital Charged With Fraud

The SEC alleges that Medical Capital paid out 24% of investor funds as administrative fees and engaged in sham intercompany transactions to pay back principal and interest to investors in prior offerings.

Provident Royalties / Shale Royalties charged with fraud by SEC

Provident Royalties, LLC and many related entities have been charged with engaging in a $485 million offering fraud and orchestrating a ponzi scheme.

Tenant-in-Common (TIC) 1031 Securities Claims

The failure of securities salespersons and their firms to perform due diligence on the TIC deals they recommend, and on the sponsors of the TIC deals, can result in disastrous outcomes for their customers.

Auction Rate Securities

Auction Rate Securities (ARS), often sold as liquid cash equivalents, have become a major problem for investors due to the failures of the auctions and the inability of investors to access their funds.

Recent Awards

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CASE RESULTS DEPEND UPON A VARIETY OF FACTORS UNIQUE TO EACH CASE AND DO NOT GUARANTEE OR PREDICT A SIMILAR RESULT IN ANY FUTURE CASE UNDERTAKEN BY THIS FIRM.

$2 Million FINRA Award for Greco & Greco Clients

Stock Loss and Attorney Fees Awarded for Private Placement “Selling Away” Case

Greco & Greco Obtains $3.24 Million Arbitration Award

Recovery of losses incurred in Trust and IRA accounts of Washington, DC retiree as a result of unsuitable investments and stock trading.

Losses and Attorneys’ Fees Recovered for Northern Virginia Couple

Registered Rep Awarded Back Commissions Owed from Split Fee Agreement

Investment Losses Recovered for Disabled Charlottesville Woman

Full Damages Awarded for Failure to Make Suitable and Safe Recommendations

Greco & Greco recovers $75,000 Paid our of Disabled Woman’s Account to Alleged Business Venture of Broker


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Settlements

In addition to the arbitration awards referenced on this page, Greco & Greco has recovered millions of dollars for customers of stock brokers through settlements and mediation of arbitration claims over the past several years. Details of these settlements are subject to confidentiality requirements