Nissen, Andrew

Peter Neiman is a partner in the firm's Litigation/Controversy Department, and a member of the Investigations and Criminal Litigation Practice Group. 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.

Practice

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

• A hedge fund in parallel criminal and SEC insider trading investigations
• 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
• A corporate CEO in a criminal accounting fraud investigation
• An investment bank and its employees in parallel regulatory and criminal investigations related to securities lending
• The chairmen of two publicly traded companies in criminal investigations related to internet gambling
• An international organization in connection with the criminal investigation of its director
• Several major pharmaceutical companies in criminal, civil, and internal investigations related to marketing practices

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, health care 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.

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.

Honors and Awards

• Mr. Neiman was the recipient of the Executive Office of United States Attorneys' Directors Award for Superior Performance as an Assistant United States Attorney.
• Mr. Neiman was selected as a "Future Star" in the 2012 edition of Benchmark Litigation.
• Mr. Neiman has been named a "New York Super Lawyer" in 2007, 2008 and 2011.