Eric Corngold has joined FKSA as head of the White-Collar Criminal Defense and Investigations Practice. Mr. Corngold, who most recently served as New York State's Executive Deputy Attorney General for Economic Justice, will represent businesses, their executives, and their employees during federal and state criminal investigations, as well in regulatory matters involving the Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal and state government agencies. He will also conduct internal investigations for corporations and other institutions on behalf of officers, boards of directors, and audit committees.

As Executive Deputy Attorney General for Economic Justice from 2007 to 2009, Mr. Corngold was the principal advisor to the New York Attorney General on litigation and policy concerning financial markets, antitrust matters, corporate and consumer fraud, and housing, supervising more than 100 attorneys statewide. In that role, Mr. Corngold led broad-ranging initiatives, including the Attorney General's auction rate securities investigation, which resulted in settlements with eleven major international financial institutions, returning more than $51 billion to investors and resulting in over $597 million in fines. Mr. Corngold similarly led the Attorney General's civil action against Intel Corporation, the largest government antitrust case brought in the last decade.

Prior to his time in the New York Attorney General's Office, Mr. Corngold served as Chief Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York from 2005 to 2007, and the Chief of that office's Business and Securities Frauds Unit from 1999 to 2005. In addition to his supervisory responsibilities, Mr. Corngold personally conducted more than fifteen felony trials and investigated and prosecuted major tax, insider trading, corporate and securities fraud, and corruption matters. He also argued a dozen cases before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Mr. Corngold is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Yale Law School, where he was a Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal. He served as a law clerk to United States District Judge Charles P. Sifton of the Eastern District of New York. He frequently lectures on white-collar crime, securities law, and criminal procedure.