Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman & Robbins LLP

Partner, White Collar

Eric Corngold is co-head of Friedman Kaplan’s white collar department. He represents businesses, their executives, and their employees during federal and state criminal investigations, as well as in regulatory matters involving the Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal and state government agencies. He also conducts internal investigations for corporations and other institutions on behalf of officers, boards of directors, and audit committees.

Mr. Corngold brings tremendous insight from the enforcement perspective.  Prior to joining Friedman Kaplan, he spent sixteen years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York (with two of those years as Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney and six years as Chief of the EDNY’s Business and Securities Frauds Unit) and three years as Executive Deputy Attorney General for Economic Justice in the New York Attorney General’s Office where he was the principal advisor on litigation and policy concerning financial markets, antitrust matters, corporate and consumer fraud, and housing.

His recent notable work includes representing the New Jersey Economic Development Authority in connection with the year-long task force investigation being conducted by Governor Phil Murphy’s Task Force on Tax Incentives, and related civil and criminal matters.

In addition to his significant work on behalf of clients, Mr. Corngold serves as a Trustee of the State University of New York and is the Chair of the New York State University Construction Fund. He is also an adjunct Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law where, for 20 years, he has taught a course on white collar law.

Yale Law School, J.D. (1984)

Swarthmore College, B.A., Phi Beta Kappa (1980)