Later, he was prosecuted for interfering with a government probe into Credit Suisse First Boston's behavior in allocating "hot" IPOs.

Following business school at Stanford University, he began work at Morgan Stanley's technology investment banking group.

Some of the evidence included Quattrone forwarding to his entire staff an email with the subject 'Re: Time to clean up those files' after being told Credit Suisse First Boston was under investigation by a grand jury.

Since 2004, Frank Quattrone and his wife Denise have supported the Northern California Innocence Project (NCIP)[10] based at Santa Clara University School of Law.

Almost immediately after the firm issued its founding press release, it was reported to be advising Google on the Yahoo takeover deal pending with Microsoft.

The success of Data Domain sale was followed by the bidding war for 3Par, which concluded in Hewlett Packard paying more than double the 3Par's value on the public markets.