Sarah Krissoff

Sarah Krissoff ardently defends companies and individuals in government and internal investigations, criminal matters, and complex commercial litigation in federal and state courts. She has broad experience in federal criminal proceedings, internal investigations and business litigation.

Prior to joining the firm, Sarah was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York for over a decade. She has significant experience leading high profile government investigations involving multiple law enforcement agencies across jurisdictional lines. As a federal prosecutor, Sarah tried ten criminal cases to verdict, and briefed and argued numerous appeals before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. She has handled sensitive public corruption matters and complex financial investigations and cases, including investment fraud, bank fraud, wire fraud, health care fraud, securities fraud, tax fraud, and money laundering matters. She also led, among others, investigations into sex trafficking and crimes against children, racketeering, murder, Hobbs Act robbery, international narcotics trafficking, gun trafficking, arson, and bank robbery. She coordinated the Department of Justice's capital case review process for many capital-eligible defendants, and served on the Hiring Committee for the Southern District of New York and DOJ's New York Federal Government Pro Bono Program Committee.

Sarah was also detailed to Washington, DC, as the Acting Deputy Chief Counsel of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), where she served as the agency's second-highest attorney at the time. There, she supervised approximately 80 attorneys who provided legal advice and services to the agency, including attorneys at headquarters and in field offices nationwide. Sarah also provided guidance and legal advice to ATF’s Director, Deputy Director, Assistant Directors, and all of the agency's directorates.

Prior to her tenure as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Sarah served as a senior associate at an international law firm headquartered in New York City. There, she handled NASD and SEC investigations, New York state and federal criminal cases, internal investigations, securities fraud investigations and litigation, federal class action litigation, insurance litigation, real estate litigation, and complex business litigation. Sarah garnered extensive experience conducting and defending depositions, and participated in a civil fraud trial in Eastern District of New York. Among other notable matters, she defended a major securities fraud class action in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania that resulted in a $93 million settlement, and represented an international hotel group in litigation against an insurer and an insurance broker due to damage to properties resulting from the events of 9/11.