John E. Tober

Partner
Armonk

t: 914.749.8422
f: 914.749.8300

jtober@bsfllp.com

Area of Practice

Education

University of Miami School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1986; Order of Coif; Associate Editor, International Law Review

University of Richmond, B.S., cum laude, Accounting, 1977; Accounting Society; Varsity Baseball; Captain, Varsity Rugby

Admissions

Florida

John Tober's main practice areas include business litigation, securities litigation, corporate governance reviews, accounting reviews, internal corporate investigations, complex national and international electronic and paper document discovery and defense of Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Enforcement actions.

Since joining Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP in April 2002, Mr. Tober has represented clients in several high profile cases. Some of these include: counsel with David Boies to Tyco International, Ltd., where Mr. Tober served as lead counsel conducting an internal investigation of Tyco's officers and directors; co-lead counsel directing a worldwide corporate governance and accounting review of over $40 billion of Tyco's acquisitions and co-defense counsel to Tyco in connection with investigations conducted by the Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Enforcement and Manhattan District Attorney; lead counsel in two international electronic and paper document discovery productions one of which was one of the largest in U.S. civil litigation history; lead counsel with David Boies representing preferred stock objectors to the WorldCom/MCI bankruptcy reorganization plan where Mr. Tober obtained a $29 million recovery for preferred stockholders who were previously allocated a zero recovery; and lead counsel representing the largest U.S. distributor of Pepperidge Farm food products in the resale of that distributorship back to Pepperidge Farm Incorporated.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Tober was the President and Managing Partner and a shareholder in the Miami law firm of Zack Kosnitzky, P.A. which was acquired by the firm in April 2002. At Zack Kosnitzky, P.A. he was also a senior member and former head of the Firm's Corporate, Finance and Taxation Department. While at Zack Kosnitzky, Mr. Tober represented many small to mid-sized private and public companies and major defendants in several high profile SEC enforcement actions brought in the Northern District of Illinois and in the Southern District of Florida.

While continuing to practice law, from 1995 to 1999, Mr. Tober served as President and CEO of a bio-medical device company he founded which manufactures medical safety devices based upon a patent received by Mr. Tober.

Prior to the practice of law, Mr. Tober was a public accountant with the national accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand concentrating on audits of public companies after which he spent six years as the Executive Vice President and co-founder of a national computer software consulting and development firm to the housing finance industry. Mr. Tober has also served as a professor of law at Saint Thomas University School of Law where he developed and taught a course in Corporate Finance.

While in law school, Mr. Tober applied for and received an exception from the Florida Supreme Court to serve as an intern prosecutor for the State Attorney, Major Crimes Division for the 11th Judicial Circuit in and for Dade County, Florida.

Mr. Tober is actively involved with Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Miami-Dade County and has served as Chairman of its Board of Directors.

Selected Professional Awards and Associations

American Bar Association
Florida Bar Association