Kyle DeYoung

Kyle DeYoung is a partner in the Government, Regulatory & Internal Investigations Practice Group in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He focuses his practice on representing public companies, financial institutions, and individuals in regulatory investigations and providing clients with strategic counseling when facing complex regulatory issues, potential enforcement actions, and corporate crises. Kyle has extensive experience handling regulatory investigations, both in private practice and at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and is an experienced litigator who has tried cases in federal court and in administrative proceedings. Kyle has investigated and litigated potential violations of the securities laws in a broad range of areas, including disclosure issues, insider trading, market manipulation, broker-dealer and investment adviser regulations, compliance failures, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, accounting issues, auditor independence rules, requirements for tender offers, failure to supervise, structured financial products, and whistleblower issues. He has significant experience with legislative and regulatory issues and has provided subject matter expertise to Congressional staff on a variety of topics including insider trading, market manipulation, stock buy-backs, activist investors, foreign companies listed on U.S. exchanges, administrative proceedings, public company disclosure requirements, the Electronic Communication Privacy Act, the Financial CHOICE Act and other issues. · Kirkland & Ellis LLP

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Partner in the Government, Regulatory & Internal Investigations Practice Group in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Represents public companies, financial institutions, and individuals in regulatory investigations and provides strategic counseling for complex regulatory issues, potential enforcement actions, and corporate crises. Extensive experience in securities law enforcement, including litigation in federal court and administrative proceedings. Previously worked at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and at Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft, and WilmerHale.

Practice areas

Government Regulatory Internal InvestigationsSecurities LawCorporate Crisis CounselingLegislative and Regulatory Issues

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Kirkland & Ellis LLP · Kyle DeYoung is a partner in the Government, Regulatory & Internal Investigations Practice Group in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He focuses his practice on representing public companies, financial institutions, and individuals in regulatory investigations and providing clients with strategic counseling when facing complex regulatory issues, potential enforcement actions, and corporate crises. Kyle has extensive experience handling regulatory investigations, both in private practice and at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and is an experienced litigator who has tried cases in federal court and in administrative proceedings. Kyle has investigated and litigated potential violations of the securities laws in a broad range of areas, including disclosure issues, insider trading, market manipulation, broker-dealer and investment adviser regulations, compliance failures, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, accounting issues, auditor independence rules, requirements for tender offers, failure to supervise, structured financial products, and whistleblower issues. He has significant experience with legislative and regulatory issues and has provided subject matter expertise to Congressional staff on a variety of topics including insider trading, market manipulation, stock buy-backs, activist investors, foreign companies listed on U.S. exchanges, administrative proceedings, public company disclosure requirements, the Electronic Communication Privacy Act, the Financial CHOICE Act and other issues.

United States

Expertise

Securities law violations (disclosure issues, insider trading, market manipulation, broker-dealer and investment adviser regulations, compliance failures, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, accounting issues, auditor independence rules, tender offer requirements, failure to supervise, structured financial products, whistleblower issues)Legislative and regulatory matters (insider trading, market manipulation, stock buy-backs, activist investors, foreign companies listed on U.S. exchanges, administrative proceedings, public company disclosure requirements, Electronic Communication Privacy Act, Financial CHOICE Act)Trial litigation in federal court and administrative proceedingsSEC enforcement policy and strategyCorporate crisis counseling

Education

University of Michigan Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1999
University of Michigan, B.A., 1995

Admissions

District of Columbia Bar