Carlos A. Lopez is a Dallas, Texas, resident with extensive experience in public service, financial regulatory compliance, and corporate law. From 2023 to 2025, he served as Senior Counsel and headed Ericsson’s Corporate and Government Investigations (CGI) for the Americas. In that capacity, Mr. Lopez managed over 80 cross-border investigations in 41 countries within North, Central, and South America. He was responsible for hiring, supervising, and mentoring a high-performing 12-member investigative team consisting of attorneys, corporate investigators, and analysts and managing a six-figure budget. The legal and regulatory issues investigated by CGI included matters involving antitrust, anti-bribery and corruption, and conflicts of interest.
Mr. Lopez’s diverse legal experience as a former federal and state prosecutor as well as a financial services regulator honed his skills in conducting thorough and legally compliant investigations. As a Trial Attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Mr. Lopez investigated and litigated complex health care fraud matters in multiple federal jurisdictions. As an Assistant United States Attorney at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, Mr. Lopez led high-profile financial crime investigations, including the prosecution and convictions of several commercial airline employees who used their security clearance at Logan International Airport to further a money laundering scheme. Previously, Mr. Lopez served as Senior Regional Counsel for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) where he investigated and litigated civil securities law violations and regulatory misconduct by FINRA member broker-dealer firms and individuals. At FINRA, among other successful assignments, Mr. Lopez investigated three broker-dealer executives for churning and excessively trading customer accounts that led to millions in customer losses. After three weeks of trial, a hearing panel barred all three executives from the financial services industry.
As a federal prosecutor and financial services regulator, Mr. Lopez led numerous investigations and litigated many cases involving allegations of regulatory compliance violations by private companies, corporate executives, and employees in a variety of industries. Additionally, Mr. Lopez created budgets and negotiated costs with outside experts and third-party vendors related to litigation and trial preparation services. Also, he often collaborated with prosecutors and regulators around the country and served as a liaison to attorneys and investigators at other federal investigative and regulatory agencies to assess strategies and manage risk related to matters including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
In private practice, Mr. Lopez focused on complex commercial litigation matters including false advertising, product liability, insurance and reinsurance claims, securities class actions and internal investigations. Immediately following laws school, Mr. Lopez served as a federal judicial law clerk for the former Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. While attending Rutgers University School of Law, he served as a teaching associate for a Legal Research and Writing class and as the Senior Articles Editor for the Rutgers Law Review. After earning his bachelor’s degree from Seton Hall University, Mr. Lopez served for two years as a Teach For America fifth-grade public school teacher in Newark, New Jersey.