Paul Murphy

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Paul Murphy’s practice focuses on representing individuals and entities in government investigations, criminal prosecutions, internal investigations, and complex civil litigation. He focuses on matters involving allegations of securities and commodities fraud, healthcare fraud, and corporate malfeasance, and he has deep experience in cross-border investigations and prosecutions involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (“FCPA”) and international fraud schemes from his more than 14 years as a federal prosecutor. He is an experienced trial lawyer, having conducted numerous trials in federal criminal and civil cases.

From 2014 to 2019, Mr. Murphy served in the U.S Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, where he became the Chief of the Economic Crimes Unit. For the nine years previous, he worked in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut, where he served as Deputy Chief of the Financial and Public Corruption Unit. His work in both offices spanned securities fraud, tax evasion, wire fraud, market manipulation schemes, investment adviser fraud, commodities fraud, FCPA violations, international bank fraud schemes, and money laundering. As a federal prosecutor, he conducted and supervised major white collar criminal prosecutions involving an array of complex business crimes at publicly traded companies, hedge funds, and financial institutions.