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At Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP‘s New York office, Greg Andres co-heads the firm’s white collar defense and investigations team, with extensive experience advising on complex criminal and civil cases bolstered by his previous roles in government. In 2025, he had success in his representation of Meta and WhatsApp in litigation against NSO Group Technologies, a spyware company that had allegedly accessed WhatsApp servers without authorization and installed ’Pegasus’ spyware on users’ phones – the court awarded more than $167mn in damages to Meta and entered a permanent injunction against NSO. He also advised JPMorgan as victims of fraud in a criminal trial, after education startup Frank misrepresented its user base, claiming that they had helped over 4 million students access financial aid when, in reality, they had fewer than 300,000. Andres secured a guilty verdict and is continuing to advise on post-trial proceedings relating to restitution.
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Greg is co-head of Davis Polk’s White Collar Defense & Investigations practice. He focuses on white collar defense, congressional investigations, complex civil litigation and crisis management. In federal and state court, mediation and arbitration, Greg represents financial institutions, hedge funds, private equity firms and companies in multiple industries.
Greg was previously a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the DOJ’s Criminal Division and the Chief of the Criminal Division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the EDNY.
Greg has secured numerous declinations and favorable resolutions for clients involving allegations of non-U.S. and U.S. corruption, financial fraud, money laundering, insider trading, and securities and tax fraud.
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