Nicholas J. Lewin

Nick Lewin, a co-founder of KKL, represents entities, executives and individuals who are facing complex investigations by federal prosecutors, Congress and U.S. regulatory agencies. His work often involves national security, multinational and cross-border investigations. An accomplished trial and appellate lawyer, he has substantial experience representing companies and individuals in complex civil litigation in federal court.

Nick draws on his experience as a former Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, as a former senior FBI official, and more than a decade as a federal prosecutor. As a prosecutor, he investigated and prosecuted some of the most important national security cases since 9/11 – including as a lead trial prosecutor of United States v. Osama bin Laden, et. al – and led the government’s investigations into a variety of highly sensitive national security and cybersecurity matters. Nick served as Special Counsel to two FBI Directors, advising on a wide array of operational and policy issues, congressional relations, and as liaison to the White House National Security Council. He has conducted a dozen jury trials and has argued multiple appeals.

Since returning to private practice, Nick has counseled and represented corporate and individual clients in matters involving allegations of securities and financial fraud, sanctions violations, money laundering, economic espionage, foreign interference in U.S. elections, and violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), and the False Claims Act (FCA). Nick has earned some extraordinary outcomes for his clients in both civil and enforcement matters, including a post-conviction dismissal in a wire fraud case, the dismissal of insider trading charges in a widely reported securities case, the dismissal of FCPA charges in a high profile case against a technology company executive, and a substantial monetary award in an arbitration on behalf of the former president of a multibillion-dollar company.

He regularly represents prominent lawyers and global law firms, including on issues relating to national security, serves as counsel to executives of technology start-ups, and represents individual board members in civil litigation. Nick works hands-on with his clients, seeking to understand the legal issues quickly and build a strategy to resolve the problem holistically, in the context of the broader business, political or personal situation. Nick has devoted significant time to representing a group of families, pro bono, in their support of plea agreements reached between 9/11 defendants and military prosecutors.