Nick Lewin

Nick Lewin, co-founder of the firm, is an accomplished trial and appellate lawyer and counsellor. He represents clients – domestically and abroad – in high-stakes U.S. and cross-border regulatory and criminal enforcement actions, internal investigations, and complex commercial litigation.

Nick’s client’s include senior executives, officers and directors of major public and private companies, lawyers and global law firms, and public and private companies. He is experienced in an array of high-profile civil and criminal matters involving allegations of securities and financial frauds, money laundering, foreign interference in U.S. elections, and violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), and sanctions violations.

Nick co-founded the firm after serving for more than a decade as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and a senior FBI official — including as the Special Counsel to former FBI Directors Robert S. Mueller III and James B. Comey, and then as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

Nick has conducted the jury trial of a dozen federal cases, including some of the country’s most complex and significant national security trials. Nick also has briefed and argued multiple appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Nick clerked for the Honorable Charles S. Haight Jr. on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and the Honorable Dennis Jacobs on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Nick is a graduate of Binghamton University (BA), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (MPA), and Yale Law School (JD).