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Mr Robert Boone
Position
Partner
Career
Robert L. Boone, a former federal prosecutor and accomplished trial lawyer, represents companies, boards and individuals in complex litigation and investigations. He recently returned to WilmerHale after spending nearly a decade as an assistant US attorney in the Southern District of New York. While at the SDNY, Mr. Boone served as a senior member of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force and the Public Corruption Unit, leading some of the office’s most high-profile trials and investigations of recent years.
During his time in the SDNY, Mr. Boone investigated and prosecuted a wide range of financial and corruption-related crimes, including securities, accounting, and other financial fraud, insider trading, bribery, and extortion. The significant investigations and prosecutions he led include those against the former CEO of a publicly traded company for a $100 million accounting fraud; a former top aide to then–New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for bribery and wire fraud; a former State University of New York president for participating in a bid-rigging scheme; NCAA basketball coaches and athlete advisors for bribery and wire fraud; celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti for extortion; and a former Wall Street trader for orchestrating a $20 million Ponzi scheme. Mr. Boone ultimately tried twelve cases to verdict at the SDNY and briefed and argued numerous appeals before the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He was honored with several awards for his service, including the Federal Prosecutor of the Year Award from the US Department of Homeland Security’s New York Office and the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation.
Before joining the SDNY, Mr. Boone was a litigation associate at WilmerHale. Prior to that role, he practiced at another international law firm and was a law clerk to the Honorable Damon J. Keith of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Memberships
Education
- JD, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, 2007
- BA, Political Science, Howard University, 2004
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Antitrust > Cartel
- International trade > CFIUS
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Industry focus > Education
- Industry focus > Education
- Industry focus > Education
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Industry focus > Native American law
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Government > State attorneys general
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- International trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government contracts
- Government > Government relations
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense