Peter Neiman is a special counsel in the firm's Litigation/Controversy Department, and a member of the Investigations and Criminal Litigation Practice Group. He joined the firm in 2006. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Neiman spent nine years as an Assistant United States Attorney with the Criminal Division of the Southern District of New York.
Practice
Mr. Neiman has in-depth experience with complex civil and criminal litigation and internal investigations. His recent representations have included:
- an investment bank and its employees in parallel regulatory and criminal investigations related to securities lending
- the chairman of a publicly traded Internet gaming company in successfully opposing extradition to face state gaming charges
- the chairman of a publicly traded money transmitting business charged with money laundering in connection with internet gaming
- several major pharmaceutical companies in criminal, civil, and internal investigations related to marketing practices
As an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Mr. Neiman focused on white collar criminal investigations involving mail and wire fraud, accounting fraud, tax fraud, securities fraud, health care fraud, art fraud, immigration fraud and foreign bribery.
As a prosecutor, Mr. Neiman tried nine white collar criminal cases, including the successful prosecution of the former owners of Days Inn of America for massive tax evasion and creditor fraud schemes, the former General Counsel of the United States Department of the Treasury for securities and wire fraud, and a leading antiquities dealer for conspiring to sell a sculpture looted from Egypt. He also led the government's largest Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation to date, into the alleged payment of tens of millions of dollars in bribes to the President of Kazakhstan and other senior officials there in connection with major oil deals in the 1990's.
Mr. Neiman served as the Deputy Chief Appellate Attorney from 2004-2005. He has argued more than fifteen appeals in the Second Circuit and supervised the government's response to more than forty criminal appeals, including that of the accused mafia boss John Gotti Jr. He also supervised the government's defense of the constitutionality of statutes criminalizing the sale of bootlegged recordings of live musical performances and the willful failure to pay child support.
Prior to joining the government, Mr. Neiman spent four years at a major law firm working on complex civil litigation matters, including the trial of a $500 million dollar copyright arbitration.
Honors and Awards
Mr. Neiman was the recipient of the Executive Office of United States Attorneys' Directors Award for Superior Performance as an Assistant United States Attorney (for the aforementioned prosecution of the former owners of Days Inn of America).
Speaking Engagements
Mr. Neiman was a featured speaker at PLI's 2003 and 2006 Corporate Compliance Institutes.