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Principal, Altamirano PLLC
Jorge Altamirano has spent his entire career on the investor’s side of the table, fighting for clients in FINRA arbitration and recovering millions of dollars in investment losses. Based in New York City, he is the principal and managing partner of Altamirano PLLC, a boutique law firm built to hold Wall Street accountable.
Altamirano’s record spans more than 1,500 cases, with claims exceeding $200 million. He has recovered millions for investors nationwide, focusing exclusively on investor-side securities arbitration claims. His work covers investment fraud, broker negligence, unsuitable and complex products, and supervisory failures, and other types of broker misconduct, helping clients recover losses through FINRA arbitration.
Notable Successes on Behalf of Investors
He began representing investors during the Puerto Rico municipal bond crisis of 2013–2014, filing cases against UBS Financial Services, UBS Puerto Rico, and others that left retirees, families, and later credit unions with devastating losses.
In 2021, Altamirano was at the center of the meme-stock fight, taking on Robinhood for its position-closing-only trading restrictions during the GameStop short squeeze. This was a significant moment for investors and the legal field. In January 2022, he secured the first and only arbitration award in the nation against Robinhood over those restrictions, a case covered by MarketWatch, Reuters, and The New York Times.
Altamirano continues to represent self-directed investors in FINRA arbitration claims involving trading restrictions, platform outages, margin liquidations, options trading, and other disputes arising from online brokerage accounts.
By 2022, his focus expanded to the collapse of GWG Holdings’ L Bonds. He was among the first lawyers to investigate and file cases against independent broker-dealers that sold the products, and he continues to represent bondholders nationwide, addressing the challenges these products pose for investors.
More recently, Altamirano has represented investors in FINRA arbitration claims involving Delaware Statutory Trust (“DST”) investments and other complex private placements. His work includes the representation of investors in claims arising from investments sponsored by Inspired Healthcare Capital (“IHC”).
Altamirano also represents investors who suffered losses in the Easterly ROCMuni High Income Fund (RMJAX, RMHIX, RMHVX).
Across each of these battles, Altamirano has built a reputation for sharp strategy, relentless advocacy, and an ability to distill complex disputes to their core: a broker’s duty to the investor, and what went wrong. He has extensive experience handling cases involving broker-dealer due diligence, Regulation Best Interest and suitability violations, breach of fiduciary duty, failure to supervise, and misconduct by brokerage firms and financial advisors. He is committed to protecting investors and represents both individual and institutional Claimants.
Read what clients have said about working with Altamirano PLLC.
He is a member of PIABA, the national bar association for investor rights. His cases have been covered in major outlets including The New York Times, MarketWatch, Business Insider, and Reuters.
Altamirano lives in Manhattan with his wife and daughter.
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