Hartley West is an accomplished trial lawyer with extensive experience in white-collar criminal and asset forfeiture matters. She has handled cases involving tax fraud, securities fraud, asset forfeiture, bank fraud, money laundering, antitrust, public corruption, health care fraud, national security and investigations.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.

• Kobre & Kim Analyzes the Business Impact of “Policing Speech Monopolies” in Law 360
• Hartley West Dives into the Future of Crypto Regulation
• 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