Ed Kim is a founding partner of Krieger Kim & Lewin LLP. He represents multinational companies and individuals in cross-border disputes, criminal and regulatory enforcement actions, and investigations. Ed is an accomplished trial lawyer whose cases have involved allegations of securities and financial frauds, cryptocurrency fraud, money laundering, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations.
Ed co-founded the firm after serving for nearly a decade as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY). During his tenure as a federal prosecutor, Ed served as a Chief of the Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit, where he oversaw the investigation and prosecution of sophisticated financial frauds, cybercrimes and cryptocurrency frauds, money laundering, violations of the FCPA, criminal tax offenses, and healthcare fraud. Ed also served as a Chief of the General Crimes Unit, where he trained and supervised dozens of the Southern District’s newest prosecutors.
Ed graduated from Brown University and Harvard Law School and clerked for the Honorable Naomi Reice Buchwald of the United States District Court for the SDNY.