David N. Kelley has joined O’Melveny & Myers as a accomplice within the white collar protection and company investigations apply group in New York, the agency mentioned Monday.
Former colleagues on the agency and the O’Melveny’s work high quality made the choice to affix simple, in keeping with Kelley. “The agency has a terrific popularity and a terrific physique of labor that matches effectively with the apply that I’ve,” he mentioned in an interview.
Kelley, who served as a US legal professional for the Southern District of New York, will symbolize and advise multinational and home public corporations, boards of administrators, audit committees, officers, and administrators, in keeping with O’Melveny. The agency has employed a handful of different authorities alums together with Rebecca Mermelstein and AnnaLou Tirol in 2022.
Kelley is bringing most of his dozen or so present purchasers within the transfer and plans to crew up with different companions to generate new enterprise this yr, he mentioned. He was on the authorized crew quashing a congressional subpoena for former FBI director James Comey in 2018 and has additionally represented biometric software program firm Cryptometrics Inc. He served as co-chair of the Justice job power investigating the Sept. 11, 2001 assault.
He’ll work on enforcement issues, inside and regulatory investigations, governance and compliance points, monitorships, and legal investigations, O’Melveny mentioned.
Earlier than becoming a member of O’Melveny, Kelley beforehand was a accomplice at Cahill Gordon & Reindel and Dechert, the place he was the previous co-leader of the white collar and securities litigation apply.
An earlier model of this story was produced with the help of Bloomberg Regulation Automation.
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