Dispute resolution
Eric Corngold at Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman & Robbins LLP is a white‑collar defense lawyer. He focuses on insider trading, securities fraud, and corruption matters. He represents companies and individuals in government and regulatory inquiries, including internal investigations and financial‑sector disputes. He also handles complex litigation and compliance matters across multiple jurisdictions.
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Partner, White Collar
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Eric Corngold, co-head of Friedman Kaplan’s white collar practice, is well known for his work guiding and defending companies through regulatory and criminal investigations and enforcement matters. Prior to joining Friedman Kaplan in 2010, Eric built a tremendous reputation as a public prosecutor in New York. Today, he puts the insight into the enforcement perspective that he gained through twenty years of public service to work representing businesses, their executives, and their employees during federal and state criminal investigations, as well as in regulatory matters involving the Securities and Exchange Commission, New York Attorney General’s Office, 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.
Eric’s recent notable work includes representing the New Jersey Economic Development Authority in connection with the major multi-year investigation conducted by a task force appointed by Governor Phil Murphy pertaining to the EDA’s internal administration of certain state tax incentive programs, including whether $11 billion worth of tax credits awarded to corporations doing business in New Jersey resulted in true value to the state and its residents.
He also represented the owner and operator of a number of online platforms in a sprawling, multi-year investigation conducted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York involving one of the most visited websites in the world. Eric and Friedman Kaplan achieved an extremely favorable resolution resulting in no criminal charges being brought against the client and helped it implement state-of-the-art compliance programs, internal controls, and other important trust and safety measures.
Memberships
Eric is the Chairman of the New York State University Construction Fund and a member of the Board of Trustees of SUNY, New York State’s network of public universities, where he serves as Chair of the Board’s Academic Medical Centers/Hospitals Committee and as a member of the Board’s Audit Committee. Eric was twice nominated (in 2016 and 2017) to serve on New York’s Court of Appeals. For the past twenty years, Eric has taught courses on white collar crime law as an adjunct Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law.
Education
Yale Law School, J.D. (1984)
Swarthmore College, B.A., Phi Beta Kappa (1980)
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Key clients
- Aylo Holdings New Jersey Economic Development Authority
Work highlights
Led the defense of Aylo Holdings (formerly MindGeek) in a multi-year investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, related to one of the world’s most visited websites.
Eric Corngold represented the New Jersey Economic Development Authority in a major investigation into $11 billion in state tax credits, which led to indictments of politicians and executives in 2024.