Daniel Kahn

Daniel Kahn is a former senior DOJ official with more than two decades 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, and has secured numerous favorable resolutions for clients with various enforcement authorities.  

Dan is ranked in Band 1 for his FCPA work by Chambers, which also recognizes him for White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations.  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, and supervised matters involving the FCPA, money laundering, and 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.