Steven Tyrrell

Practice Areas

Steven Tyrrell is a partner in the Firm’s White Collar Defense, Investigations & Compliance Practice Group. His practice focuses on white collar criminal defense, regulatory enforcement matters, and internal investigations, with an emphasis on matters involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other anti-corruption laws, securities fraud, accounting fraud and health care fraud, among other areas. He also advises clients on FCPA and anti-corruption due diligence in the context of M&A transactions and assists clients in developing and executing anti-corruption internal compliance programs.

Steve previously served as chief of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Fraud Section from 2006 through 2009 and led the investigation, prosecution and coordination of a broad range of sophisticated economic crime matters and enforcement initiatives. He also played a key role advising DOJ leadership on white collar crime-related legislation, crime prevention, public education and the DOJ’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force.

Prior to that role, Steve served as deputy chief of the DOJ’s Counterterrorism Section of the Criminal Division, where he supervised a team of attorneys in connection with the investigation, prosecution and coordination of a variety of international terrorism and terrorist financing matters. He also led a number of high-profile national security investigations, and trained federal prosecutors and agents on relevant national security statutes, policies and practices.

In addition, Steve served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Offices in the Southern District of Florida and the Northern District of New York for more than 15 years. During that time, Steve investigated and prosecuted a variety of criminal cases, with an emphasis on white collar matters, including but not limited to securities fraud, health care fraud, government contract fraud, bank fraud, tax fraud, FDA fraud and public corruption, as well as related money laundering and asset forfeiture work. He also was lead counsel for the United States in nearly 40 criminal jury trials.