Steven G Kobre
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Lawyer
Steven G. Kobre, co-founder of the firm, is an experienced litigator who has served as lead counsel in numerous government enforcement defense matters and high-value financial arbitrations and litigations. He has represented clients in front of government regulators including various departments of the U.S. Department of Justice (both the Antitrust and Criminal Divisions, including the Fraud Section and Health Care Fraud Unit), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York County District Attorney’s Office and the New York State Attorney General. Mr. Kobre focuses on complex civil litigation, particularly disputes among commercial entities, Fortune 500 companies and other large institutions.
Mr. Kobre is repeatedly recognized in leading industry publications. Chambers & Partners acknowledged his experience in a range of white-collar investigation and civil litigation matters and clients praised him for being “unruffled under pressure,” “brilliant at keeping the big picture in mind” and “really at the top of the field.”
Before establishing Kobre & Kim, Mr. Kobre served as a prosecutor for the U.S. Department of Justice (as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York). Prior to that, Mr. Kobre worked as an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office.
Admissions
- New York
- District of Columbia
- Registered Foreign Lawyer, England & Wales
- Registered Foreign Lawyer, Hong Kong
- Illinois
- Pennsylvania
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York
- Dubai International Financial Center Courts
Education
- The George Washington University Law School, JD (The George Washington Law Review, Senior Notes Editor)
- University of Pennsylvania, BA
Clerkships
- Honorable Lowell A. Reed, Jr., U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- Honorable Joyce Hens Green, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Judicial Internship)
Accolades
- Senior Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America
- Transatlantic Legal Awards Litigation Team of the Year (Shortlist)
- Chambers USA, Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations (New York)
- Chambers USA, Litigation: General Commercial (New York)
- Litigation Daily, “Litigator of the Week”
- New York Metro Super Lawyers
- The Legal 500 United States, White-Collar Criminal Defense
- Who’s Who Legal, Asset Recovery
- Who’s Who Legal, Business Crime Defence “Thought Leader”
- Who’s Who Legal, Investigations
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America
- The Legal 500 United States, General Commercial Disputes
- The Legal 500 United States, International Litigation