Lynn Neils is a named partner in a litigation boutique in New York City. She represents businesses and individuals in criminal prosecutions, regulatory investigations, and other high-stakes disputes. She also advises corporations and boards on compliance protocols and conducts internal investigations to mitigate the risk and impact of enforcement actions and regulatory investigations.

Professor Neils has the unique experience of having represented clients on all sides of a regulatory/criminal investigation – as federal prosecutor conducting the inquiry, as an in-house lawyer defending and counseling the company under investigation and as a defense lawyer defending companies and individuals suspected or accused of potential wrongdoing.

She was formerly the Chief of the Complex Fraud/Cybercrime Unit in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where she supervised more than 22 senior Assistant United States Attorneys in handling the investigation and prosecution of a wide-variety of complex, often multinational, white-collar cases, including bank fraud, securities fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, tax fraud, healthcare fraud, money laundering, to name a few.

In addition to spending 11 years as a federal prosecutor, Professor Neils also served as Senior Counsel at Johnson & Johnson, where she was responsible for handling a large caseload of criminal and civil litigations, conducting internal investigations and advising the company on compliance and regulatory matters.

Professor Neils graduated summa cum laude from Tulane University and Georgetown.