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Daniel Kahn

Partner

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Daniel Kahn is a former senior DOJ official with more than a decade of experience in criminal and regulatory investigations and headed DOJ’s Fraud Section and FCPA Unit. He represents companies and individuals in government enforcement matters, conducting internal investigations and in compliance matters.

The Wall Street Journal described Dan as DOJ’s “most recognizable expert on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.” At DOJ, Dan was acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division and Chief of the Fraud Section, and Chief of the FCPA Unit. He supervised matters involving the FCPA, money laundering, and digital currency, commodities, securities, healthcare and procurement fraud. At DOJ, Dan played a central role in developing enforcement policies on the FCPA, corporate enforcement, compliance and monitors. He worked with authorities around the world, and tried a number of cases to verdict.

Dan co-authored a treatise on corporate criminal investigations, and teaches Corporate Criminal Investigations at Harvard Law School and Global Anti-Corruption at Georgetown Law Center.