Andy Tomback
Andrew (“Andy”) Tomback has been an angel and private equity investor for over a decade. He is a litigation partner at McLaughlin Stern LLP and is based in New York. Andrew has over 30 years of experience drawn from business, private practice, and government service.
Before entering private practice, Andy was the Deputy General Counsel of the Resolution Trust Corporation, where he managed several hundred attorneys handling federal savings and loan resolutions. He also served as Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Enforcement at the US Department of the Treasury. Earlier in his career, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, where he conducted grand jury investigations and prosecuted criminal cases, concentrating on complex securities frauds, including stock manipulations, insider trading, and international tax evasion enterprises. He tried 12 cases, all to conviction, and successfully argued over a dozen appeals. Andy also clerked for the Honorable Stanley Sporkin of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Prior to joining McLaughlin & Stern, Andy was Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Scientific Games Corporation (NASDAQ: SGMS). He also practiced litigation at two other global law firms – Milbank and White & Case.
Andy graduated from Yale College summa cum laude in 1982 and Yale Law School in 1986. He is active in non-profits and serves on the boards of: The Andrew Goodman Foundation, which focuses on registering and turning out the youth vote; West Side Campaign Against Hunger (“WSCAH”), a food bank in New York City; Learning through an Expanded Arts Program (“LeAp”), which provides arts classes in underserved areas of New York City; the Exoneration Initiative, which works to reverse unjust convictions and death sentences; Jobs for Homeless People (“JHP”), which he co-founded in 1987 and which helps homeless people find and retain jobs; and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
He is married to Sally Strauss, a senior lawyer at Mount Sinai. They have three children, Alexandra (28), Drew (24), and Ariel (24).