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People in The News < Back Compliance : Sarbanes Oxley : People : Back Office Kenneth M. Breen Joins Fulbright & Jaworski
Kenneth M. Breen, who has spent the last ten years as a federal prosecutor, most recently as Deputy Chief of the Business and Securities Fraud Section of the U.S. Attorney?s office for the Eastern District of New York, this week joins Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P as a partner in the firm?s New York office. Breen will focus his practice on white collar criminal defense, securities litigation and regulatory enforcement defense, commercial litigation, anti-counterfeiting and corporate internal investigations. He is the second former federal prosecutor to join Fulbright in the past month. In June, the firm?s Houston office added Michael Shelby, the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas. ?Ken Breen has established himself as one of the leading white collar prosecutors in the important Eastern District of New York,? said Steven B. Pfeiffer, Chair of the Fulbright?s executive committee. ?We are pleased to have him join our expanding white collar criminal defense and securities litigation teams. Ken?s experience with complex financial crimes investigations and high profile cases will be a key to the growth of our nationwide practice.? ?Fulbright presents a unique opportunity to help build a great white collar defense practice,? said Breen. ?Having helped develop the vital Securities Fraud unit for the active Eastern District, the prospect of growing a white collar and securities practice at Fulbright was highly appealing. ?I look forward to carrying on Fulbright?s tradition of assisting individuals and corporations in their compliance efforts, while helping those who are investigated and accused resolve their problems in a responsible way,? continued Breen. ?This includes advocating for the reputation and freedom of the wrongly and unfairly targeted and accused.? Breen, age 39, was a federal white collar prosecutor for more than a decade. He served during the past six years in the U.S. Attorney?s Office; prior to that, he was a trial attorney in the Justice Department?s Tax Division, in Washington, D.C. Breen has served on the U.S. Attorney?s Advisory Committee and as Bankruptcy Fraud Coordinator, and lectured and trained new prosecutors in matters of trial practice and advocacy. Following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, Breen served as Coordinator of the Capital Markets Unit of the Terrorist Financing Task Force in Washington, D.C. The unit investigated whether profiteering in the financial markets occurred in anticipation of the Sept. 11 attacks. During his tenure as a prosecutor, Breen argued appeals and tried more than 40 cases to verdict. He was lead counsel in the Amr Elgindy and Jeffrey Royer case, in which a prominent Internet stock advisor conspired with an FBI agent to short-sell stocks using confidential law enforcement information illegally obtained from FBI and SEC files. Other high profile cases successfully prosecuted by Breen included the Lung Fong Chen matter, a corporate fraud case involving self dealing by bank officers; and the Moshe Milstein case, in which a pharmaceutical wholesaler was convicted for distributing misbranded and counterfeit pharmaceuticals and for trademark infringement. Breen is the recipient of numerous awards for his work as a prosecutor, including the Tax Division?s Outstanding Attorney Award, as well as awards from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Internal Revenue Service,the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, the U.S. Secret Service, the New York City Police Department and the Recording Industry Association of America. Prior to becoming a prosecutor, Breen was an associate at Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander & Ferdon, where he represented corporate and individual clients in complex civil and regulatory matters, including intellectual property, anti-counterfeiting, antitrust and commercial disputes. Breen earned his J.D. degree in 1992 at Boston College Law School, and graduated cum laude with a degree in English in 1989 from Boston College. About Fulbright?s White Collar Criminal Defense Practice From multi-million dollar whistleblower investigations to high-profile public corruption cases, Fulbright has experience representing corporations, their officers and directors, and international business and government entities in grand jury investigations, criminal cases, related civil lawsuits and Congressional investigations. The firm?s white collar criminal defense team has developed special skills in handling such matters as government contracting fraud, criminal antitrust matters, RICO, money laundering, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, securities fraud, health care fraud, banking fraud, environmental crime, tax fraud, and false statements to government agencies. In particular, Fulbright?s team assists in corporate governance matters by conducting internal corporate and audit committee investigations and by developing effective corporate compliance programs to help avoid criminal liability. Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. is consistently ranked among the best litigation firms in the United States. The firm was named a top U.S. dispute resolution law firm in the Global Counsel 2004/2005 Dispute Resolution Handbook; among the ?Arbitration Elite? by The American Lawyer; a top 10 U.S. law firm for intellectual property litigation by IP Worldwide; among the U.S.?s top 30 firms for client service by BTI Consulting and a top 20 corporate law firm in America by Corporate Board Member magazine. Founded in 1919, Fulbright is a full-service international law firm, with more than 900 attorneys in 11 offices. For more information, visit www.fulbright.com.
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