Hartley West is an accomplished trial lawyer with extensive experience in white-collar criminal and asset forfeiture matters. She has handled cases and investigations involving alleged violations of antitrust, trade secret, securities fraud, tax fraud, health care fraud, money laundering, public corruption, national security and export enforcement laws. These matters often involve a connection between Asia-Pacific and the United States.

Before joining Kobre & Kim, Ms. West served as a prosecutor for the U.S. Department of Justice as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, most recently as Deputy Chief of its Economic Crimes and Securities Fraud Section. Earlier in her career she clerked for the Honorable John T. Noonan Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

• U.S. Congressional Investigations of COVID-19 Federal Aid Likely to Go Global
• Scott Hulsey, William McGovern, Benjamin Sauter and Hartley West on the Risk of Regulatory Scrutiny for Companies Post-COVID-19
• Hartley West Joins Webinar to Discuss White Collar Litigation in the Time of COVID-19
• Matthew Boucher, Benjamin Sirota and Hartley West Host ABA Webinar on Criminal Antitrust
• Clearing Your Name: When Trade Secret Disputes Become a National Security Issue
• Clearing Your Name against U.S. Civil Trade Secret Theft Claims
• Hartley West Unpacks Her Government Enforcement Defense Practice in Vault Q&A
• “Cartels Beware”: U.S.-Korea Antitrust Enforcement Likely to Reach a New Scale
• John Han and Hartley West on Partnering with the U.S. Government in Asset Recovery Efforts with ACC Singapore
• U.S. Enforcement Against the PRC: Preparing for the Next Wave
• Kobre & Kim and the Impact of ‘Weinstein Clauses’ on M&A Investigations in The Wall Street Lawyer
• Kobre & Kim Analyzes the Business Impact of “Policing Speech Monopolies” in Law360
• Hartley West Dives into the Future of Crypto Regulation
• 5 Questions Raised By the DOJ's Partnership With Global Antitrust Enforcers
• 5 Ways to Plan Ahead as the U.S. Moves to Curb Foreign Investment
• 5 Ways Cryptocurrency Traders in EMEA Can Plan Ahead for U.S. Government Scrutiny
• Cross-Border Government Enforcement Defense Team Tackles Bribery Risks in Latin America and Asia
• Hartley West, Steve Kobre and Michael Peng Explore Impact of Recent Second Circuit Decision on Cross-Border Investigations
• Hartley West, Benjamin Sauter and Beau Barnes File Amicus Brief on Coin Center’s Behalf Opposing Broad IRS Request for Coinbase User Data
• Kobre & Kim Expands Government Enforcement Defense Team With DOJ Prosecutor in San Francisco