Daniel J. Koevary is a former prosecutor for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s Major Economic Crimes Bureau who focuses his practice on federal and state white collar defense and investigations. Dan also has experience handling high-stakes civil litigation for individuals and businesses, including representing plaintiffs and defendants in numerous litigations involving fraud, breach of contract, and defamation.
Prior to rejoining the firm, Dan was the lead prosecutor in a wide range of investigations and prosecutions including a matter involving a multi-million-dollar embezzlement scheme, a nationwide scheme to defraud donors to a nonprofit, an investigation of a prolific sex offender and his employer, and numerous narcotics trafficking organizations linked to fentanyl overdose deaths.
Dan has been recognized by Best Lawyers.
Dan clerked for the Honorable Henry B. Pitman in the Southern District of New York.
Work Highlights
- NFL Hall of Famer Brett Favre in defense of civil claims brought by the State of Mississippi arising out of the alleged misuse by state officials and others of federal grant funds, and in his lawsuit against a state official alleging that the official maliciously defamed Mr. Favre by, among other things, falsely accusing him of committing white collar crimes.
- The founder and CEO of a payment processing technology company in a securities fraud and larceny criminal prosecution brought by the New York Attorney General’s Office. While the client was facing a maximum sentence of 25 years imprisonment, he received a non-incarceration sentence of a conditional discharge.
- A retired senior-level police officer in connection with charges brought by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in relation to an alleged straw donor scheme for the mayoral campaign of Eric Adams. The client was charged with multiple felonies but only convicted of a misdemeanor and sentenced to community service.
- Ashkenazy Acquisition Corporation, a private real estate investment firm with a portfolio valued at $12 billion, in several real estate-related litigations, including a litigation where we obtained dismissal of Ashkenazy’s minority partners’ claim under New York’s anti-SLAPP laws.
- Fairfax Financial Holdings, the largest insurance company in Canada, in a New Jersey RICO case involving blatant insider trading, market manipulation and short selling attacks by hedge funds and investment firms.
- MBIA, one of the world’s largest monoline insurers, in litigation brought by 18 of the world’s largest banks seeking to overturn MBIA’s corporate restructuring which, with the approval of the New York Department of Insurance, established a separate company for MBIA’s municipal bond insurance business.
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