ANDREW WEISSMANN, Partner Publications · Professional Activities New York Office Office: (212) 891-1650 Fax: (212) 891-1699 Email: aweissmann@jenner.com  Add to Outlook Contacts

Andrew Weissmann is a partner in the Firm’s Litigation Department.  He is Co-Chair of the White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice, where he is joined by eighteen former federal prosecutors and SEC attorneys.  He is also a member of the Antitrust Litigation and International Arbitration Practices.  Mr. Weissmann is a member of the Firm’s Management Committee.

Mr. Weissmann is a nationally-recognized white collar litigator, and in 2007 he was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics by Ethisphere magazine.  He represents U.S. and foreign corporations and executives in connection with criminal and civil investigations, including representation before the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and state and local authorities.  Mr. Weissmann was also appointed by two federal courts to serve as a Special Master overseeing gun dealers that had been sued by the City of New York as part of its effort to curtail the flow of illegal firearms into the City.  He also is a member of the board of Manhattan Legal Services.

Mr. Weissmann joined Jenner & Block after serving as the Director of the Enron Task Force, the Chief of the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, and the Special Counsel to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  As Enron Task Force Director, Mr. Weissmann oversaw the prosecution of more than 30 individuals in connection with the company’s collapse, including the indictments of Kenneth Lay, Jeffrey Skilling, and Andrew Fastow.

Previously, Mr. Weissmann served as Chief of the Criminal Division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York where he supervised over 110 prosecutors.  Mr. Weissmann oversaw a wide array of white collar crime investigations involving, among others, securities, FCPA, health care, environmental, computer crime and tax fraud.  In addition, Mr. Weissmann personally prosecuted dozens of corrupt brokers and short sellers for stock market manipulation.

An experienced jury trial lawyer, Mr. Weissmann successfully tried more than 25 cases, including major racketeering prosecutions.  Those included the successful prosecution of the boss of the Genovese Crime Family, Vincent Gigante, who had feigned mental illness for years, as well as scores of leaders and members of the Gambino and Colombo families.  Mr. Weissmann was also selected by the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to be his Special Counsel, where he worked on a variety of confidential national security matters.

Mr. Weissmann has written and lectured widely on compliance and other white collar matters, speaking in the U.S. and overseas to private and public companies, boards of directors, professional associations, conferences and law schools.  Mr. Weissmann recently took a leadership role in originating, writing, and editing The Ethics and Compliance Handbook: A Practical Guide for Leading Organizations, a first-of-its-kind resource published by the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association which aims to create an industry-wide standard for ethics and compliance programs. He has also been an adjunct professor of law and clinical professor at Fordham Law School and Brooklyn Law School.

Mr. Weissmann graduated from Columbia Law School as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.  At Columbia, he received the Negroni Award and was on the Managing Board of the Columbia Law Review.  Mr. Weissmann earned his bachelor of arts degree, magna cum laude, from Princeton University where he received the Walter Phelps Hall Senior Thesis Prize and a European Cultural Studies Certificate.  He also attended graduate school on a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Geneva.  Mr. Weissmann is admitted to the Bars of the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the U.S. District Courts of the Eastern District and the Southern District of New York.

Congressional Testimony:

• Prosecutorial Authority to "Preserve Assets" for Restitution, Written and Oral Testimony, United States House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security (April 3, 2008)
  
  
• Examining Approaches to Corporate Fraud Prosecutions and the Attorney-Client Privilege Under the McNulty Memorandum, Written and Oral Testimony, United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (September 18, 2007)
  
  
• The McNulty Memo's Effect on the Right to Counsel in Corporate Investigations, Written and Oral Testimony, United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, & Homeland Security of the Committee of the Judiciary (March 8, 2007)
  
  
• The Thompson Memorandum's Effect on the Right to Counsel in Corporate Investigations, Written and Oral Testimony, United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (September 12, 2006)
  

Representative Speaking Engagements:

• 9th Annual Legal Reform Summit, U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, Washington, DC (October 29, 2008)
  
  
• Keynote Speech at the Conseil Constitutionnel, Global Council for Business Ethics and Aspen Institute–France, Paris, France (October 23, 2008)
  
  
• Conference on Cross Border Investigations, Cercle Montesquieu, Paris, France (October 22, 2008)
  
  
• The Second Annual Capital Markets Summit: Strengthening U.S. Capital Markets for All Americans, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness, Washington, DC (March 26, 2008)
  
  
• The Lengthening Arm of Criminal Law: Criminalization of Corporate Conduct, The Chatham House City Series, London, England (November 30, 2007)
  
  
• Legal Reform Solutions Summit, Civil Justice Reform Group, Chicago (July 17, 2007)
  
  
• Securities Law Symposium, Bloomberg, CLE Institute, New York County Lawyers’ Association, New York (June 29, 2007)
  
  
• SuperConference 2007, The Changing Privilege Landscape, InsideCounsel, Chicago (May 15, 2007)
  
  
• Sponsoring Partner Forum, Ethics and Compliance Officers Association, Weston, Florida (April 18, 2007)
  
  
• 11th Annual Corporate Counsel Institute, GeorgetownCLE, Washington, DC (March 8-9, 2007)
  
  
• Enron: The Lay/Skilling Trial -- A Case Study, Edward Bennett Williams Inn of the American Inns of Court Pupilage Group, Washington, DC (November 16, 2006)
  
  
• Corporate Fitness for Crisis, PricewaterhouseCoopers and the University of Delaware Directors’ College, Newark (November 15-17, 2006)
  
  
• Conducting Forensic Investigations Conference, American Conference Institute, New York (December 5-6, 2006)
  
  
• Seventh Annual Fall Bench & Bar Retreat, The Federal Bar Council, Lenox (October 27-29, 2006)
  
  
• The Future of the Thompson Memorandum, New York City Bar Association, New York (October 16, 2006)
  
  
• Lecture and Seminar With Law and Government Students Regarding Criminal Prosecutions, Harvard Law School & Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge (October 12, 2006)
  
  
• Federal Prosecution of Corporations: The Effect of U.S. v. Stein on DOJ and SEC Policies, Ethics & Compliance Officer Association, New York (August 9, 2006)
  
  
• What the Government Expects From Ethics and Compliance Programs, Ethics and Compliance Officer Association, Washington, DC, (December 13, 2005)
  
  
• 19th Annual National Institute on White Collar Crime 2005, American Bar Association Conference, Las Vegas (March 2-4, 2005)
  
  
• Obstruction of Justice and White Collar Prosecutions, American Society of Corporate Secretaries, Salt Lake City (June 3, 2003)
  
  
• Lessons from the Arthur Andersen Case, National Association of Securities Dealers National Meeting, Washington DC (October 2, 2002)