Kevin T. Abikoff

Areas of Concentration

• Chairman, Anti-Corruption and Internal Investigations Practice Group
• Co-Chairman, Securities Litigation Practice Group
• Executive Committee Member
• Securities and White-Collar Criminal Litigation, Enforcement, Regulation and Counseling with an emphasis on the representation of corporations, individuals, and other entities in anti-corruption (including FCPA) matters (investigations, due diligence, and counseling), securities and insurance litigation, regulatory, enforcement and arbitration proceedings, particularly class action litigation, securities disclosure counseling, and designing and implementing insurance and securities compliance policies, procedures, and programs.
• Corporate Governance with an emphasis on shareholder derivative proceedings, conducting internal investigations, counseling board committees, and designing and implementing corporate compliance programs.
  

Court Admissions

• United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Second Circuit, Third Circuit, and Fifth Circuit
• United States District Court for the District of Columbia, District of Maryland, and Southern District of Texas

Professional Activities

• Current Member, Certification Committee of ETHIC Intelligence International, Paris, France (First U.S. Member), 2010
• Editorial Board, eSecurities (Leader Publications), 1998-2002
• Editorial Board, Federal Regulation of Securities, (Lawyers Cooperative Publishing), 1994-1997
• Member, Market Conduct Committee, American Council of Life Insurers, 1999-2001
• Board of Directors, Holocaust Museum (Houston), 2000-2001
• Board of Directors, Greater Houston Business Ethics Roundtable, 1999-2001

Select Previous Experience

• Law Clerk, The Honorable Collins J. Seitz, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1988-1989
• Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Corporate and Compliance, American General Corporation (AGC), 1998-2001 
  • Senior officer with staff of over forty and direct responsibility for all corporate legal functions and select shared services functions, including securities matters (filings and compliance), mergers and acquisitions, broker-dealer compliance, corporate ethics and responsibility, field audit, insurance holding company matters, privacy compliance, shareholder services, intellectual property, and corporate contracting. 
  • Matrix responsibility for entire compliance environment (over one hundred persons) enterprise-wide (across all four of the company’s operational divisions: life insurance, retirement services, investment management, and consumer finance) with responsibility for oversight of compliance policies and procedures, analysis of leading and lagging compliance indicators, and coordination of compliance initiatives and responses to significant regulatory matters. Routinely reported to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of American General Corporation related to securities disclosure issues, corporate governance, compliance, and other matters.