April 14, 2026 Miami Regional Meeting

About Our Speakers

Jonathan E. Perlman
Venable LLP | Miami, FL

Jonathan leads National Receivership Practice of Venable, LLP, an AmLaw 100 firm. Recognized as a preeminent practitioner in the field, Jonathan is the immediate past president of the National Association of Federal Equity Receivers (NAFER), the only national organization devoted to federal equity receiverships, and the unique issues receivers, judges and agencies face in such matters. 

Jonathan has served as court-appointed receiver over numerous ongoing businesses that had engaged in Ponzi schemes or other unlawful conduct, including in actions brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Jonathan also regularly represents other receivers, investors and creditors in such matters. He currently serves as receiver over the TCA Global Credit family of companies, a 1 billion hedge fund, in an action brought by the SEC.

A litigator by training, Jonathan has over 35-years’ experience litigating class and individual cases, including in the franchise, consumer protection, securities, asset recovery, banking, and employment areas. He also served 14 years as a director of a $1 billion community bank, where he chaired its compensation committee and served on its audit and compliance committees.  Jonathan brings his broad experience to each receivership engagement to create and efficiently manage diverse teams best suited to each assignment’s needs. 

Jonathan regularly lectures and writes articles regarding receivership and litigation matters. In March 2025 at a NAFER regional conference, Jonathan moderated a panel consisting of two federal district judges and the SEC’s Miami regional director in a wide-ranging discussion on receivership matters. At the 2024 NAFER Annual Conference in Santa Barbara, Jonathan led the keynote “Fireside Chat with the Enforcement Directors,” featuring CFTC Enforcement Division Director Ian McGinley and SEC Enforcement Division Acting Deputy Director Sam Waldon. In August 2024, Jonathan spoke at the National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees Annual Conference on Spotting Red Flags of Criminal Activity in Bankruptcy cases. In June 2024, Jonathan moderated a Fireside Chat with SEC Miami regional director Eric Bustillo on receiverships before members of the Federal Bar Association, the Wilkie Ferguson Bar Association and NAFER. At the April 2024 Public Investors Advocate Bar Association Mid-Year Meeting in Las Vegas, Jonathan spoke to an audience of state securities regulators on how to protect more investors with less resources by “Leveraging the Power of an Equity Receiver.” At the 2023 NAFER Annual Conference in Nashville, TN, Jonathan held a Fireside Chat with CFTC Commissioner Summer Mersinger and was a panelist on “Avoiding Tears in Your Beer in Cross-Border Receiverships.” Also in 2023, Jonathan spoke at the American Bar Association’s Annual Forum on franchising on Handling Judgment Enforcement and Collections. At the 2022 NAFER Annual Conference in Washington, DC, Jonathan produced and moderated NAFER’s first-ever Regulators Panel consisting of regulators from the FTC, SEC, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. At the 2021 NAFER Annual Conference in Los Angeles, Jonathan presented a fireside chat with the FTC’s chief litigation counsel. At the 2020 NAFER Offshore Conference, Jonathan was a panelist and moderator on “What’s New for Receivers Around the World”; at the 2019 International Franchise Association Legal Symposium, he spoke on Americans with Disabilities Act accessibility class and damages actions; and at the 2018 NAFER Annual Conference, he spoke on protection of receivership assets. Jonathan also spoke as a panelist in recent webinars, including a ThoughtLeaders4 international insolvency webinar on “Assembling the A Team” with an international panel (2021), “Has the Bell Tolled for FTC Receiverships?” (NAFER 2021), and “Takedowns and Takeaways in Federal Receiverships” (NAFER 2020).

Jonathan attended the University of Florida College of Law, and obtained his undergraduate degree from Duke University, cum laude with special distinction honors in psychology. He resides in Coral Gables, Florida with his wife, Dr. Molly Perlman, a nationally recognized psychiatrist and leader in the mental health field.

Jeffrey C. Schneider
Levine Kellogg Lehman Schneider + Grossman LLP

Jeff is an accomplished trial lawyer whose practice focuses on high-stakes business litigation, receiverships, and class action litigation, particularly in connection with receiverships. Jeff is one of the Firm’s founding partners, and has been the Firm’s Managing Partner since its inception fifteen years ago. Jeff also Chairs the Firm’s Receivership Practice Group.

Jeff has been trying complex, high-risk, eight-and-nine-figure cases in federal and state trial courts, and in arbitration proceedings, for over thirty years. Jeff has worked on some of the largest fraud cases in history, either as lead trial counsel, as receiver, or as counsel to the receiver.

Jeff has also served as receiver in actions brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the Office of the Attorney General. Jeff has been appointed by District Court judges in the Northern District of Alabama, the Northern District of Illinois and the Southern District of Florida, and by state court judges in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties.

Throughout the course of his career, Jeff has helped to recover well over $400 million for defrauded victims, including a $104 million recovery in the Mutual Benefits fraud, a $150 million recovery and a $32 million recovery in the Jay Peak fraud, a $54 million recovery in the Woodbridge fraud, a $32 million dollar recovery in the DLI fraud, and multiple other eight-figure recoveries. Jeff is known for his creative and passionate approach to litigation, and is considered an expert on Ponzi schemes and fraud cases.

Jeff has been recognized by many publications and peer-review organizations, including Chambers USA and The Best Lawyers in America, and has twice received the Daily Business Review’s “Most Effective Lawyer” award (having been nominated four times). As noted in Chambers USA, Jeff’s peers call him “a shrewd tactician” and praise him for his “creativity,” his “organization,” and his ability “to analyze, distill, and set forth complex issues in a simple, understandable way.” In 2024, Jeff was one of three lawyers in Miami-Dade County nominated for “Attorney of the Year” by the Daily Business Review.

Jeff is a frequent lecturer in the areas of receivership litigation and commercial litigation and arbitration.