Stuart Meissner

Stuart Meissner (born 1962) is an American attorney. His firm, Meissner Associates, opened in 2001, with offices in Manhattan, New York, and across the country, focused on the securities industry, investment disputes, FINRA attorney, and SEC whistleblower matters.

Meissner, born in 1962 in Brooklyn, and raised in Lawrence, Nassau County, New York, graduated with bachelor's and J.D. degrees from Hofstra University, and received a master of laws degree in corporate law from the New York University School of Law. He is a son of George Meissner of West Palm Beach, Florida. Dodd-Frank whistleblower awards, which allow whistleblowers to collect up to 30% of what the SEC recovers in fines and reimbursements, have formed the primary focus of Meissner's work in addition to pursuing investor and employment FINRA arbitrations against major Wall Street institutions.

A resident of Dumont, New Jersey, Meissner is a former state prosecutor and was a first time independent candidate for U.S. Senate from the US state of New Jersey in 2013. Meissner pulled in a minority of votes in 2013 NJ special election for US Senate, falling behind 2, but ahead of 3, other independent candidates.

In September 2019 Meissner announced a run for the GOP nomination in New Jersey to challenge Democratic U.S. Senator Cory Booker in the 2020 U.S. Senate elections. In February 2020 Meissner withdrew his candidacy.