Gene Levoff

Gene Daniel Levoff (born January 1974) is a former attorney who was the director of corporate law at Apple Inc. He has pled guilty to federal charges of securities fraud in the United States.

Education
Levoff completed his undergraduate studies at and received his J.D. from Stanford University  in 2001. He was admitted to the on December 11, 2001.

Career
Prior to joining Apple in 2008, Levoff held positions at a publicly traded company and a major law firm.

Apple Inc.
At Apple, Levoff became director of corporate law and joined the company's disclosure committee in September 2008. In December 2012, he became the chair of that committee. In 2012, Levoff was the president of the Bryce Acquisition Corporation, a (SPAC) formed by Apple to acquire Touch ID developer AuthenTec. In 2013, he became VP and senior director of corporate law, reporting directly to Senior VP and general counsel Bruce Sewell. Levoff's responsibilities included setting policy and enforcing "blackout periods" on trading shares of AAPL during the company's earnings reports to prevent. However, he was suspected of violating the blackout policy and was placed on leave in July 2018. Levoff was then fired in September 2018.

Legal issues
In February 2019, a criminal complaint was filed against Levoff by the for the. On October 24, 2019, he was formally for 6 counts of securities fraud and 6 counts of wire fraud for a five-year insider trading scheme. His insider trading was alleged to have netted him 227,000 in profits, while avoiding $377,000 in losses. In April 2020, Levoff requested that the charges be dismissed as his attorney argued that prosecution of insider trading was "unconstitutional." However, on June 30, 2022, Levoff pled guilty to the six securities fraud charges. He faces up to up to 120 years in prison and $30 million in fines at his sentencing, which is scheduled on November 10, 2022.