Mr. Bottini leads the expansion of Chapin Fitzgerald Sullivan & Bottini LLP’s securities class action, mergers & acquisitions, antitrust, and shareholder derivative litigation practice. Before joining Chapin Fitzgerald Sullivan & Bottini LLP, Mr. Bottini co-founded the law firm of Johnson Bottini, LLP and, before that, worked for 13 years for a New York-based firm specializing in shareholder litigation and antitrust cases. Mr. Bottini has successfully achieved several multi-million dollar recoveries in securities and antitrust class action cases throughout the country. Mr. Bottini served as an Adjunct Professor of Business Law at the University of San Diego from 1995-97. On April 18-20, 2005, Mr. Bottini accepted an invitation to give a presentation on securities class action litigation at the 2nd Annual CFO Forum in Seoul, South Korea.

Mr. Bottini practices in the areas of securities litigation (including securities fraud litigation under the PSLRA and Sarbanes-Oxley Act, mergers & acquisitions, and proxy litigation), antitrust, ERISA, consumer, and employment class action litigation. He is a graduate of St. Louis University (1991, B.A., magna cum laude), and the University of San Diego School of Law (1994, J.R., cum laude), where he was the Lead Articles Editor of the San Diego Law Review and received the American Jurisprudence Award in Property. Mr. Bottini is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, all California courts, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He is AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell.