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Richard Strassberg
Position
Partner
Career
Rich Strassberg, head of Goodwin’s White Collar Defense and Government Investigations practice, specializes in white collar criminal defense, SEC enforcement proceedings, FCPA compliance and investigations, corporate internal investigations, and complex business and financial litigation. He is a former member of Goodwin’s Executive Committee. Prior to joining the firm, Rich was the Chief of the Major Crimes Unit in the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, responsible for supervising approximately 25 Assistant US Attorneys in the prosecution of white collar criminal cases.
Rich is a Regent of the American College of Trial Lawyers (“ACTL”), one of the premier legal associations in America, and was formerly the Chair of the ACTL’s Downstate NY Committee. He has twice been recognized by The American Lawyer as “Litigator of the Week” as a result of his securing extraordinary victories in some of the most closely followed white collar cases in the country, including the first ever insider trading case involving credit derivatives, the criminal accounting fraud case involving Bristol-Myers Squibb, and the KPMG criminal tax shelter case. Additionally, under Rich’s leadership, Law360 recognized Goodwin’s White Collar Crime and Government Investigations practice as one of the top five white collar practices in the United States.
In 2021, Chambers USA again ranked Rich in Band One for New York-based white collar defense lawyers and as one of the leading trial lawyers nationwide and globally, noting that market sources refer to him as a “really strong and impressive trial lawyer who is very seasoned and effective in the courtroom,” and that he “offers a tremendous amount of experience, judgment and coolheaded sophistication.” Chambers has also previously highlighted his “innate ability to connect with judges and jurors, and make complicated fact patterns and sophisticated financial transactions accessible.” He was previously named to Super Lawyers list of the Top 10 New York–Metro white collar lawyers, is recognized by The Legal 500 US as a Leading Lawyer for trial lawyers, corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense, is listed by Who’s Who Legal as a leader in the field of international investigations, and is regularly included in US News Best Lawyers, Global Investigations Review (GIR) 100, and other surveys of top white collar litigators in the US.
Education
JD, 1998, Harvard Law School (cum laude) / BS, 1985, Cornell University (with distinction)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
(Leading trial lawyers)United States > Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
(Leading lawyers: Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense: advice to individuals)Goodwin has a wealth of experience advising companies across a variety of industries on investigation and enforcement matters with a particular expertise in handling cases within the financial services and healthcare sectors. The highly skilled Richard Strassberg leads the team from New York; he is recommended for FCPA investigations and compliance matters. Also based in New York, Annie Railton represents both companies and executives before the federal and state regulators. Prominent members of the team in the Washington DC office include Kirk Ogrosky and Ilene Albala for their experience with handling false claims cases. Located in Silicon Valley, Grant Fondo stands out for his expertise in digital currencies and is recommended for his skill advising financial institutions. Having joined the Boston office in January 2023 from Troutman Pepper, Miranda Hooker is an expert in healthcare fraud cases.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading lawyers: Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense: advice to individuals United States > Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Leading trial lawyers United States > Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense United States > Dispute resolution
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- International trade > CFIUS
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism