Perry Law

Founding Partner

Government Service U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York, Assistant U.S. Attorney and Senior Trial Counsel and Deputy Chief, Criminal Division New York State Deputy Attorney General and Chief of Investigations, New York State Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption Clerkship Hon. Charles S. Haight, Jr., U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Bar & Court Admissions New York U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Supreme Court of the United States Awards & Accolades Law360 White-Collar Crime MVP Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations | New York, Chambers USA Litigation: General Commercial | New York, Chambers USA The Best Lawyers in America® New York Law Journal: Distinguished Leader Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigator in America Lawdragon 500 Leading Civil Rights & Plaintiff Employment Lawyer City & State New York Trailblazer in Law Crain’s New York Business Notable Women in Law Benchmark Litigation Labor & Employment Star The National Law Journal Elite Boutique Trailblazer

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Board Service Vera Institute of Justice, Trustee NYC Kids Rise, Director When There Are Nine Scholarship Project, Co-Founder and Committee Member

Yale Law School (J.D.) Harvard College (A.B.) (Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude)

Ms. Perry is the founding partner of Perry Law. Previously, she spent four years successfully directing a boutique litigation firm which she co-founded. Prior to that undertaking, she spent five years as the Chief of Litigation and Deputy General Counsel at MacAndrews & Forbes Incorporated. There, she managed and advised all aspects of the company’s complex commercial litigation, compliance, and regulatory matters, including in areas of mergers and acquisitions, contract, antitrust, intellectual property, consumer fraud, and employment law. Ms. Perry led and coordinated teams of in-house and outside attorneys in the prosecution and defense of all litigation matters. She was responsible for developing, implementing, and enforcing best-in-class compliance programs across the holding company and its operating companies, and she provided guidance to executive management in a broad array of legal and business issues, including in areas of business risk, corporate governance, internal investigations, and best practices.

In 2013, Ms. Perry was appointed by the Governor and the Attorney General to serve as Deputy Attorney General for the State of New York and Chief of Investigations for the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption. In this role, she led a sweeping investigation into public corruption in New York State, recommended policies for systemic reform, and referred numerous matters for criminal prosecution.

From 2002 to 2013, Ms. Perry served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, including as Senior Trial Counsel and Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney, she investigated, prosecuted, and supervised hundreds of sophisticated white-collar cases, including the prosecution of a billion-dollar health care fraud, the largest immigration fraud and tax preparer frauds in the history of the United States, and one of the largest identity theft rings in the United States.

Early in her career, Ms. Perry worked at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and clerked for a federal district judge in the Southern District of New York.

Ms. Perry has been appointed as a Criminal Justice Act (CJA) Panelist for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to serve as counsel to criminal defendants, ensuring they receive due process and zealous representation. Ms. Perry also serves as an adjunct professor of law at New York University School of Law, where she teaches Professional Responsibility. She has previously taught a trial advocacy and prosecution clinic.

Ms. Perry is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School. Nationally recognized as an industry expert, she frequently speaks on white-collar and enforcement panels and is a regular media commentator, including on MSNBC, CNN, and BBC. Ms. Perry has written a number of op-eds and articles, including for the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, the New York Daily News, and Law360. She is a champion sub-3-hour marathoner and a proud single mother of three.