Breon Peace

Career

Breon Peace’s practice focuses on a range of high-stakes complex litigation, regulatory enforcement matters, government and internal investigations, and white-collar defense.

He represents domestic and multinational corporations and business executives in sophisticated, high-profile regulatory and criminal investigations involving, among other things, allegations of fraud, insider trading, money laundering, and corruption. He regularly conducts sensitive internal investigations on behalf of boards of directors and management of leading corporations as well as advises board and audit committees on crisis management, corporate governance issues, and compliance programs.

Breon frequently handles matters involving authorities in the United States, including the Department of Justice, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, various state attorneys general, and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. In addition to domestic representations, he handles significant cross-border compliance and enforcement matters and investigations involving various constituencies and stakeholders.

From 2021 – 2025, Breon served as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York (EDNY), leading one of the largest and most important U.S. Attorney’s Offices in the country. He supervised a staff of over 160 Assistant U.S. Attorneys and 200 other professional staff and served a community of over eight million residents. Also, Breon served on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC) and was Chair of the AGAC White Collar Fraud Subcommittee.

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