Ms Sarah Coyne > Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Offices
767 5TH AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10153
NEW YORK
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Ms Sarah Coyne
Position
Partner
Career
Sarah Coyne is Co-Head of Weil’s global White Collar Defense, Regulatory and Investigations practice. She focuses on a wide range of civil and criminal white collar matters, as well as internal investigations, with experience across industry sectors and an emphasis on financial institutions. She is a regularly featured speaker on CNN and for many years, taught a course on white collar crime at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Sarah is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, serving for 14 years in the District of New Jersey and the Eastern District of New York, where she was Chief of the Business and Securities Fraud Section and oversaw a large team of prosecutors working on white collar criminal matters. In these roles, Sarah prosecuted or supervised a number of high-profile matters, including those involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, securities and investment fraud, and off-label promotion in the healthcare space. She also tried 14 jury trials and argued seven successful appeals.
Education
New York University School of Law (J.D.), Georgetown University (B.A.)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
(Next Generation Partners: Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense: advice to corporates)With a practice that regularly represents high-profile individuals and corporations, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP spans variety of complex white-collar matters such as securities and commodities fraud, environmental crime, and economic sanctions. Domestic and cross-border cases pertaining to the FCA and FCPA are further areas of strength. A trio consisting of New York-based Sarah Coyne and Daniel Stein as well as Washington DC’s Steven Tyrrell helms the group; all three have extensive experience advising clients in investigations and enforcement actions before regulatory bodies. Stein, former Chief of the Criminal Division in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and previously a partner at Mayer Brown, joined the firm in September 2022. In the same month, Christopher Garcia left the firm.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners: Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense: advice to corporates United States > Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense United States > Dispute resolution
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Tax > Financial products
- Tax > International tax
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- 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: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Sport
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense