Kevin Abikoff

Practice Areas

Areas of Concentration

-- Deputy Chair of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP

-- Co-chairman, Anti-Corruption & Internal Investigations practice group

-- Co-chairman, Securities Litigation practice group

-- Executive Committee member

-- Securities and white-collar criminal litigation, enforcement, regulation and counseling with an emphasis on the representation of corporations, individuals and other entities in anti-corruption (including Foreign Corrupt Practices Act [FCPA]) matters (investigations, due diligence and counseling), securities and insurance litigation, regulatory, enforcement and arbitration proceedings, particularly class-action litigation, securities disclosure counseling, and designing and implementing insurance and securities compliance policies, procedures and programs

-- World Bank Group and other international financial institutions sanctions matters, including compliance, inspections, investigations, settlements, cooperation, coordination with monitors, and litigating contested sanctions proceedings

--Corporate governance with an emphasis on shareholder derivative proceedings, conducting internal investigations, counseling board committees, and designing and implementing corporate compliance program

Professional Activities

-- Member, B20 Integrity and Compliance Taskforce, Indonesia 2022

-- Member, B20 Integrity and Compliance Taskforce, Argentina 2018

-- Member, B20 Anti-Corruption Taskforce, Germany 2017

-- Representative, B20 Energy, Climate, & Resource Efficiency Taskforce, 2016

-- Member, B20 Anti-Corruption Taskforce, China 2016

-- Member, B20 Anti-Corruption Taskforce, Turkey 2015

-- Super Lawyers, Criminal Defense: White Collar, 2012 – 2020 (published by Washington Post Magazine)

-- Faculty member, TRACE Anti-Bribery Specialist Accreditation Program (current)

-- Steering Committee member, American Bar Association (ABA) International Law Section, Anti-Corruption Committee

-- Current member, Certification Committee of ETHIC Intelligence International, Paris (First US Member) 2010

-- Editorial board, eSecurities (Leader Publications), 1998 – 2002

-- Editorial board, Federal Regulation of Securities, (Lawyers Cooperative Publishing), 1994 – 1997

-- Member, Market Conduct Committee, American Council of Life Insurers, 1999 – 2001

-- Board of directors, Holocaust Museum (Houston), 2000 – 2001

-- Board of directors, Greater Houston Business Ethics Roundtable, 1999 – 2001

Previous Experience

-- Law clerk, the Honorable Collins J. Seitz, United States Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, 1988 – 1989

-- Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Corporate and Compliance, American General Corporation (AGC), 1998 – 2001

-- Senior officer with staff of over 40, directly responsible for all corporate legal functions and select shared services functions, including securities matters (filings and compliance), mergers and acquisitions, broker-dealer compliance, corporate ethics and responsibility, field audit, insurance holding company matters, privacy compliance, shareholder services, intellectual property and corporate contracting

-- Matrix responsibility for entire compliance environment (over 100 people) enterprise-wide (across all four of the company’s operational divisions: life insurance, retirement services, investment management and consumer finance) with responsibility for oversight of compliance policies and procedures, analysis of leading and lagging compliance indicators, and coordination of compliance initiatives and responses to significant regulatory matters. Routinely reported to the Audit Committee of the board of directors of American General Corp. related to securities disclosure issues, corporate governance, compliance and other matters