Peter Neiman

Peter G. Neiman is a partner in the firm’s Litigation/Controversy Department, and a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice. He joined the firm in 2006. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Neiman spent nine years as an Assistant United States Attorney with the Criminal Division of the Southern District of New York.

Mr. Neiman has in-depth experience with complex civil and criminal litigation and internal investigations. His recent representations have included :

• A high-tech company in successful federal court challenge to state Attorney General investigation
• A high-tech company in defending privacy litigation brought by state Attorney General
• A bank executive in SEC investigation of price manipulation and misrepresentations with respect to closed-end municipal securities funds
• A high-tech company in a criminal investigation related to internet advertising of pharmaceuticals
• The head of a private equity firm in a perjury and bribery investigation
• An investment bank and its employees in parallel regulatory and criminal investigations related to securities lending
• An international organization in connection with the criminal investigation of its director.

As an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Mr. Neiman focused on white collar criminal investigations involving mail and wire fraud, accounting fraud, tax fraud, securities fraud, healthcare fraud, art fraud, immigration fraud and foreign bribery.

As a prosecutor, Mr. Neiman tried nine white collar criminal cases, including the successful prosecution of the former owners of Days Inn of America for massive tax evasion and creditor fraud schemes, the former General Counsel of the United States Department of the Treasury for securities and wire fraud, and a leading antiquities dealer for conspiring to sell a sculpture looted from Egypt.

He also led the government’s largest Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation to date, into the alleged payment of tens of millions of dollars in bribes to the President of Kazakhstan and other senior officials there in connection with major oil deals in the 1990s.

Mr. Neiman served as the Deputy Chief Appellate Attorney from 2004-2005. He has argued more than fifteen appeals in the Second Circuit and supervised the government’s response to more than forty criminal appeals, including that of the accused mafia boss John Gotti Jr.

He also supervised the government’s defense of the constitutionality of statutes criminalizing the sale of bootlegged recordings of live musical performances and the willful failure to pay child support.

EDUCATION :

• JD, New York University School of Law, 1991
• BA, Brown University, 1988

ADMISSIONS : New York

CLERKSHIPS : The Hon. John M. Walker, Jr., US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1991 – 1992

GOVERNMENT EXPERIENCE :

• Department of Justice
• United States Attorneys’ Offices, Assistant US Attorney and Deputy Chief, Southern District of New York