As the former Chief of the Criminal Division in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, Kristin Mace draws on her deep experience in government enforcement to represent and counsel companies, executives, and boards of directors in investigations and litigation. Kristin has extensive experience with matters involving anti-corruption and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA); export controls and sanctions compliance; healthcare fraud; securities fraud; anti-money laundering (AML); and the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
Kristin represents entities and individuals before domestic and foreign law enforcement agencies and regulators, as well as in court. She also advises businesses and financial institutions on maintaining compliance with U.S. and international regulations, helping them operate effectively in global markets governed by complex laws and multiple oversight regimes.
Kristin spent more than a dozen years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and personally investigated and prosecuted a wide variety of criminal matters, many of which she tried to verdict and briefed and argued on appeal before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Among other significant cases, Kristin was a member of the team that conducted the global investigation of corruption in international soccer, which resulted in groundbreaking charges in the FIFA cases against over 50 defendants from more than 20 countries and two jury trials.
As Chief of the Criminal Division, Kristin oversaw more than 115 Criminal Division Assistant U.S. Attorneys and all of the criminal investigations and cases in the Eastern District of New York. In that role, Kristin supervised significant and complex cases in such varied areas as white collar crime, public corruption, national security, cybercrime, money laundering, securities fraud, export controls, asset forfeiture, transnational organized crime, civil rights, and criminal appeals.
Prior to her government service, Kristin clerked for the Honorable Virginia A. Phillips of the Central District of California and the Honorable Joel M. Flaum of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. For several years, Kristin has taught a course on Federal Criminal Justice at Columbia Law School and serves on the Board of Advisors of NYU Law School’s Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement (PCCE).
Watch: Kristin and colleague Alex Langton discuss DOJ FARA enforcement trends and proposed rulemaking.
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