NEW YORK, July 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP introduced at present that Kiersten Fletcher, most lately an Assistant United States Lawyer (AUSA) in the USA Lawyer’s Workplace for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) and a senior member of the SDNY Securities and Commodities Fraud Activity Power, will be a part of Cahill on July 15 as a companion in New York. She is going to instantly deepen the bench of the agency’s White Collar Protection and Investigations; Securities Litigation, Regulation & Enforcement; and Digital Property & Rising Expertise practices.
Kiersten will be a part of Cahill after greater than eight years of public service within the Division of Justice as a federal prosecutor for SDNY. Earlier than becoming a member of the SDNY Securities and Commodities Fraud Activity Power in 2020, Kiersten served within the Cash Laundering and Transnational Prison Enterprises Unit. Throughout each roles, she served as lead or co-lead prosecutor in 10 jury trials in important legal circumstances, involving a large spectrum of monetary crime, whereas overseeing groups of attorneys, brokers and different personnel. These widely-watched trials repeatedly concerned securities fraud, wire fraud, market manipulation, cash laundering, immigration fraud, and firearms and narcotics offenses. She additionally led scores of personal grand jury investigations and contributed to quite a few different prosecutions, spanning accounting fraud, insider buying and selling, mismarking, the Funding Advisers Act, cryptocurrency manipulation and anti-touting, the Financial institution Secrecy Act, financial institution bribery, sanctions, financial institution fraud, tax evasion, and legal forfeiture, amongst others. Kiersten additionally taught the SDNY Prosecution Clinic at New York College College of Legislation as an adjunct professor in 2021.
“Kiersten’s excellent file as a prosecutor in a broad array of securities and different monetary crime circumstances, and her intensive trial expertise, might be extraordinarily priceless to shoppers who flip to Cahill with their most tough challenges,” stated Anirudh Bansal, chair of Cahill’s White Collar Protection and Investigations follow, himself a former Southern District AUSA. “Corporations, boards, and their executives search the easiest when the stakes are highest. With Kiersten, that is precisely what they may get – insightful, skilled, detail-oriented, and regular counsel from somebody with a deep understanding of the federal government’s perspective.”
“Whereas SDNY is among the many most revered and aggressive in pursuing monetary crime, they not often go it alone, however reasonably work hand in hand with the FBI, SEC, CFTC, and others,” stated David Januszewski, chair of Cahill’s Litigation follow. “Kiersten’s eight-plus years’ expertise working in partnership with these businesses gives a singular vantage level and a strong understanding of their operations that Cahill shoppers will deeply admire.”
“Kiersten’s spectacular tenure at SDNY speaks for itself, and we’re lucky to have her be a part of our market-leading litigation crew at Cahill,” stated Herb Washer, Chair of Cahill’s Government Committee. “Her file at trial is excellent, constantly incomes convictions and responsible pleas in advanced monetary and fraud circumstances. Her expertise guiding such issues to a profitable final result, each on the DOJ and in personal follow earlier than her authorities service, makes her a wonderful match for our crew and our shoppers.”
Kiersten shared, “Cahill stands on the middle of a number of the monetary neighborhood’s most subtle, partaking, and progressive authorized issues within the litigation, enforcement, and regulatory area. I couldn’t go up the chance to hitch the agency and sort out these challenges.”
Previous to her service with the Division of Justice, Kiersten served as an affiliate at a number one world legislation agency, the place she represented financial institution shoppers, hedge funds, and senior executives. She obtained her J.D. from the College of Chicago Legislation College and her B.A. from the College of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
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