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Kevin T. Carroll

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Washington, D.C.

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Kevin Carroll is a partner in the Washington, D.C. and New York offices of Hughes Hubbard & Reed in the White Collar & Regulatory Defense and Anti-Corruption & Internal Investigations practice groups. His practice focuses on representing businesses and senior corporate executives and government officials in congressional and criminal investigations; conducting internal investigations; and litigating national security claims. Kevin also helps counsel businesses on CFIUS/FIRRMA, cyber security and data privacy, EAR/ITAR, FARA, FCPA, FISA, FMS and OFAC compliance.

Kevin began his legal career with Hughes Hubbard. He later served as executive director of the U.S. Council on Transnational Organized Crime, senior counselor to homeland security secretary John Kelly, senior counsel to House homeland security committee chairman Peter King, a CIA case officer in the Middle East, and a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Thomas Platt. An Army Reserve colonel, Kevin served in Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia, and maintains Top Secret/Special Compartmented Information clearance.

Kevin has published widely, including in the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, offered legal commentary to CNN and the New York Times, and addressed the American Bar Association and Association of Corporate Counsel. He is active in Business Executives for National Security and Culper Connect.

Selected Recent Publications

  • Author, “Now Is Not the Time to Go Easy on Russia,” The Dispatch, December 2, 2021
  • Author, “Biden Is Now Flying Blind in Afghanistan,” Wall Street Journal, September 19, 2021
  • Author, “Congress could stop Milley’s nuclear weapons quandary from happening again,” The Hill, September 16, 2021 
  • Author, “The FDNY on 9/11 and US national honor in Afghanistan,” Washington Examiner, August 30, 2021  
  • Author, “Congress Needs Litigators to Help Investigate U.S. Capitol Attack,” Bloomberg Law, June 4, 2021 
  • Author, “A New Idea for Fighting Chinese Theft of American Defense Technology,” War on Rocks, July 10, 2019
  • Author, “Want to stop cross-border gangs? You need a nerve center, not Trump’s wall,” Washington Post, February 19, 2019

Speaking Engagements

  • International Stability Operations Association Summit,  regarding Afghanistan, October 28, 2021
  • Department of the Treasury’s Financial Service Sector Coordinating Council, regarding insider threats, July 22, 2020
  • American Bar Association TIPS Fidelity and Surety Committee’s Conference,  regarding cybersecurity, January 29, 2020
  • Association of Corporate Counsel Foundation Cybersecurity Summit, regarding insurance policies’ acts of war exclusion and the NotPetya attack, January 28, 2020
  • American Health Law Association, regarding intellectual property theft by the Thousand Talents Program, November 21, 2019

Court Admissions

  • US District Court (District of Columbia) 
  • US District Court (Eastern District of New York)
  • US District Court (Eastern District of Virginia)
  • US District Court (Southern District of New York) 
  • US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit 
  • US Supreme Court 

Highlighted Matters

  • Representation of a former prime minister in Section 1782 litigation
  • Representation of a defense contractor in a bid protest regarding an Intelligence Community contract
  • Representing an investor in a civil fraud case
  • Representing a field-grade Army officer in a board of inquiry
  • Representing a foreign service officer in an inspector general investigation
  • Representation of Intelligence Community officials in security clearance matters
  • Pursuing Torture Victim Protection Act claims against a Libyan warlord
  • Pursuing Antiterrorism Act claims against a financial institution for an American kidnapped by al-Qaeda
  • Representation of the managing partner of a US venture capital firm in civil litigation related to a Vatican investment fund
  • Representation of a professional in a terror finance investigation
  • Representation of a CEO in a bank fraud case related to the Paycheck Protection Program (received a 5K1.1 letter and reduced sentence)
  • Representation of a very senior government official in House Judiciary and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee investigations
  • Representation of a senior police commander in a public integrity investigation
  • Successfully obtained permission for clients to deal with sanctioned entities
  • Representation of investors defrauded by a Russian bank
  • Representation of academics and servicemembers in counterintelligence investigations
  • Representation of an undersecretary in congressional, criminal, and inspector general investigations
  • Representation of an airman in a general court-martial (full acquittal)
  • Representation of a former senior DoD official in a foreign criminal investigation
  • Representation of a DHS official in a criminal counterintelligence investigation
  • Successfully pursued trade secret theft claims on behalf of a financial advisory
  • Successfully recovered fraud losses for a hedge fund
  • Representation of a Mexican CEO in a First Amendment matter
  • Representation of senior executives in internal investigations
  • Representation of senior executives in US Customs and Border Protection matters
  • Representation of a field-grade Army officer in a fraud investigation
  • Conducted an internal investigation for a university victimized by China’s Thousand Talents program
  • Pro bono, representing an airman appealing a homicide conviction
  • Pro bono, persuaded CIA to clear a book by Agency and Air Force officers about the drone program
  • Pro bono, persuaded the Army to restore the full rank of a wrongfully demoted general
  • Pro bono, persuaded a federal judge to vacate a Board of Inquiry’s decision against a Marine whistleblower
  • Pro bono, persuaded the Governor and New York State legislature, and Mayor and New York City Council, unanimously, to amend civil service laws to allow an older Navy SEAL to join the FDNY
  • Pro bono, assisted Afghan refugees
  • Successfully helped represent a whistleblower before the House Natural Resources Committee
  • Successfully helped pursue trade secret theft claims on behalf of a US manufacturer victimized by China
  • Successfully helped pursue First Amendment claims on behalf of public interest groups
  • Successfully helped pursue Securities Act claims on behalf of taxpayers
  • Successfully helped defend an official in a public integrity investigation
  • Helped conduct an internal investigation for a Swiss bank involving alleged tax fraud
  • Helped successfully represent a foreign business before the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals
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Education
  • Army War College, M.S., 2021
  • Georgetown University, LL.M., 2012
  • Fordham University School of Law, J.D., 2001
  • Johns Hopkins University, B.A., 1994
Bar Admissions
  • District of Columbia, 2014
  • New York, 2002
  • Virginia, 2020
Areas of Focus
Anti-Corruption & Internal Investigations
Data Privacy & Cybersecurity
Defense Industry
Regulatory Compliance
White Collar & Regulatory Defense

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