Steve Kwok

Steve Kwok is head of Skadden’s Hong Kong office. Steve Kwok represents corporations, financial institutions and individuals in internal investigations, U.S. regulatory enforcement matters, and trial and appellate litigation in U.S. federal and state courts. Prior to joining Skadden in 2016, Mr. Kwok was the resident legal adviser for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. As the DOJ's attaché in China from November 2013 to January 2016, he represented the United States in dealings with Chinese law enforcement authorities on criminal matters, particularly corruption, money laundering and fraud cases pursued by criminal authorities in the United States, China or jointly by both jurisdictions. From 2007 to 2013, Mr. Kwok served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he tried numerous felony cases to verdict and argued numerous appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. As a member of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, he investigated and successfully prosecuted a wide variety of securities, commodities and other investment fraud schemes. During his time in the Organized Crime Unit, he secured racketeering convictions against some of New York City’s most high-profile organized crime leaders and corrupt union officials.

Mr. Kwok served as a law clerk to the Hon. Alex Kozinski, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (2002-03), and to the Hon. Anthony M. Kennedy, U.S. Supreme Court (2003-04).

Born in Hong Kong, Mr. Kwok is able to read and write Chinese and speaks fluent Mandarin and Cantonese.