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Kimberly Zelnick

Kimberly Zelnick

Work Department

Litigation

Position

Partner and Global Head of Financial Institutions Disputes Group

Career

Kim is a partner in Freshfields’ global investigations and complex litigation practice group, based in New York, and heads up the firm’s financial institutions disputes group.

Kim focuses her practice on crisis management as well as on the defense of white-collar criminal and SEC enforcement investigations and related civil litigation. She represents institutions and individuals in global investigations involving allegations of bribery, fraud, market manipulation, money laundering, tax evasion, terrorist financing, cartel and other anticompetitive activity.

Kim is also the global co-head of our sanctions and trade group and regularly advises clients on US economic sanctions and export controls, data privacy and cybersecurity, as well as matters related to FCPA compliance.

Education

JD, Yale Law School, essays editor for the Yale Law Journal and National Champion of the ABA Appellate Advocacy Competition. BA, magna cum laude, Williams College, Phi Beta Kappa.

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