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Steven G. Kobre
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Steven G. Kobre, co-founder of the firm, is an experienced litigator who has served as lead counsel in numerous government enforcement defense matters and high-value financial arbitrations and litigations. He has represented clients in front of government regulators including various departments of the U.S. Department of Justice (both the Antitrust and Criminal Divisions, including the Fraud Section and Health Care Fraud Unit), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York County District Attorney's Office and the New York State Attorney General. Mr. Kobre focuses on complex civil litigation, particularly disputes among commercial entities, Fortune 500 companies and other large institutions. 

Mr. Kobre is repeatedly recognized in leading industry publications. Chambers & Partners acknowledged his experience in a range of white-collar investigation and civil litigation matters and clients praised him for being "unruffled under pressure," "brilliant at keeping the big picture in mind" and "really at the top of the field."

Before establishing Kobre & Kim, Mr. Kobre 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 Southern District of New York). Prior to that, Mr. Kobre worked as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney's Office.

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Admissions

  • New York
  • District of Columbia
  • Registered Foreign Lawyer, England & Wales
  • Registered Foreign Lawyer, Hong Kong
  • Illinois
  • Pennsylvania
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

Education

  • The George Washington University Law School, JD (The George Washington Law Review, Senior Notes Editor)
  • University of Pennsylvania, BA

Clerkships

  • Honorable Lowell A. Reed, Jr., U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
  • Honorable Joyce Hens Green, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Judicial Internship)

Accolades

  • Senior Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America
  • Transatlantic Legal Awards Litigation Team of the Year (Shortlist)
  • Chambers USA, Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (New York)
  • Chambers USA, Litigation: General Commercial (New York)
  • Litigation Daily, "Litigator of the Week"
  • New York Metro Super Lawyers
  • The Legal 500 United States, White-Collar Criminal Defense
  • Who's Who Legal, Asset Recovery
  • Who's Who Legal, Business Crime Defence "Thought Leader"
  • Who's Who Legal, Investigations
  • Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America
  • The Legal 500 United States, General Commercial Disputes
  • The Legal 500 United States, International Litigation
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Select Engagements

 
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Professional & Community Involvement

  • American College of Trial Lawyers, New York-Downstate State Committee, Fellow and Member
  • The Legal Aid Society, Board of Directors
  • American Association for Justice, Member
  • American Bar Association, Member
  • New York City Bar Association, Member
  • Federal Bar Council, Member
  • International Bar Association, Member
  • Institute for Transnational Arbitration, Advisory Board, Member
  • National Institute for Trial Advocacy's Intensive Trial Advocacy Program, Faculty
  • Trial Law Institute, Member
  • Diversity Law Institute, Member
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Publications & Presentations

  • Co-author, "Cross-Border Criminal Investigations Just Became More Complicated" (The Recorder, September 2017)
  • Speaker, "Planning the Orderly Succession of Firm Governance" and "Planning the Orderly Transition of Clients from Senior Partners to Other Members of the Firm" (New York State Bar Association Managing Partners Conference Series, New York, June 2017)
  • Moderator, "Navigating the world of cross-border criminal, regulatory and civil investigations — the current state of affairs" (ALM Transatlantic General Counsel Summit, London, June 2017)
  • Co-author, "Recent U.K. Decision Jeopardizes U.S. Privilege Assertions For Witness Interviews" (New York Law Journal, January 2017)
  • Moderator, "An International Conundrum: Conducting an Internal Investigation on Behalf of a Multinational Organization" (New York Law Journal, Webinar, November 2014)
  • Panelist, “Enforcement Trends in International FCPA Criminal Investigations and Best Practice in Representing Individuals and Corporate Targets” (New York Council of Defense Lawyers, New York, September 2011)
  • Panelist, "An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Credit Crisis: The Overlap of Securities, Bankruptcy & Criminal Law" (New York City Bar Association, New York, July 2009)
  • "The SEC's January 2006 Guidelines For the Imposition of Penalties", 20 Corporate Counsel Newsletter 3, Section of Litigation, American Bar Association (American Bar Association, Spring 2006)
  • "Cooperating with the Investigators and its Impact on Employees", 21 Corporate Counsel Newsletter 1 (American Bar Association, Fall 2006)
  • Lecturer on civil and criminal asset forfeiture issues in a seminar sponsored by the American Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, May 2007
  • Annual lectures on international criminal law topics most recently in Japan and Korea
  • Hedge Fund Activism (Hedge Fund General Counsel Summit, Connecticut, September 2007)
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Mr. Kobre is described by clients as “really at the top of the field.”

-Chambers