NEW
YORK, July 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP announced
today that Kiersten Fletcher, most
recently an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) in the United States Attorney's Office for the
Southern District of New York
(SDNY) and a senior member of the SDNY Securities and Commodities
Fraud Task Force, will
join Cahill on July 15 as a partner
in New York. She will immediately
deepen the bench of the firm's White Collar Defense and
Investigations; Securities Litigation, Regulation &
Enforcement; and Digital Assets & Emerging Technology
practices.
Kiersten will join Cahill after more than eight years of public
service in the Department of Justice as a federal prosecutor
for SDNY. Before joining the SDNY Securities and Commodities
Fraud Task Force in
2020, Kiersten served in the Money Laundering and Transnational
Criminal Enterprises Unit. Across both roles, she served as lead or
co-lead prosecutor in 10 jury trials in significant criminal cases,
involving a wide spectrum of financial crime, while overseeing
teams of lawyers, agents and other personnel. These
widely-watched trials regularly involved securities
fraud, wire
fraud, market
manipulation, money laundering, immigration fraud, and firearms and narcotics
offenses. She also led scores of non-public grand jury
investigations and contributed to numerous other prosecutions,
spanning accounting fraud, insider trading, mismarking, the Investment
Advisers Act, cryptocurrency manipulation and anti-touting, the
Bank Secrecy Act, bank bribery, sanctions, bank fraud, tax evasion, and criminal
forfeiture, among others. Kiersten also taught the SDNY Prosecution
Clinic at New York University School of
Law as an adjunct professor in 2021.
"Kiersten's outstanding record as a prosecutor in a broad array
of securities and other financial crime cases, and her extensive
trial experience, will be extremely valuable to clients who turn to
Cahill with their most difficult challenges," said Anirudh Bansal, chair of Cahill's White Collar
Defense and Investigations practice, himself a former Southern
District AUSA. "Companies, boards, and their executives seek the
very best when the stakes are highest. With Kiersten, that's
exactly what they will get – insightful, experienced,
detail-oriented, and steady counsel from someone with a deep
understanding of the government's perspective."
"While SDNY is among the most respected and aggressive in
pursuing financial crime, they rarely go it alone, but rather work
hand in hand with the FBI, SEC, CFTC, and others," said
David Januszewski, chair of Cahill's
Litigation practice. "Kiersten's eight-plus years' experience
working in partnership with these agencies offers a unique vantage
point and a powerful understanding of their operations that Cahill
clients will deeply appreciate."
"Kiersten's impressive tenure at SDNY speaks for itself, and we
are fortunate to have her join our market-leading litigation team
at Cahill," said Herb Washer, Chair
of Cahill's Executive Committee. "Her record at trial is
outstanding, consistently earning convictions and guilty pleas in
complex financial and fraud cases. Her experience guiding such matters
to a successful outcome, both at the DOJ and in private practice
before her government service, makes her an excellent match for our
team and our clients."
Kiersten shared, "Cahill stands at the center of some of the
financial community's most sophisticated, engaging, and innovative
legal matters in the litigation, enforcement, and regulatory space.
I could not pass up the opportunity to join the firm and tackle
these challenges."
Prior to her service with the Department of Justice, Kiersten
served as an associate at a leading global law firm, where she
represented bank clients, hedge funds, and senior executives. She
received her J.D. from the University of
Chicago Law School and her B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
About Cahill Gordon &
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New York, Cahill also has offices
in London, Washington, D.C. and Delaware.
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