Kiersten Fletcher, ’10, Joins Cahill as White Collar Defense and Investigations Partner
Kiersten Fletcher Joins Cahill’s New York Office as White Collar Defense and Investigations Partner
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 the firm on July 15 as a partner in New York, where she will immediately deepen the bench of our White Collar Defense and Investigations; Securities Litigation, Regulation & Enforcement; and Digital Assets & Emerging Technology practices.
Kiersten joins Cahill after more than eight years of public service in the Department of Justice as a federal prosecutor in the 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.
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