Mintz Levin Attorney Peter Chavkin Receives International Law Office 2011 Client Choice Award for White Collar Crime
4/7/2011
New York, NY – Peter Chavkin, a member in the New York office of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., received the International Law Office (ILO) 2011 Client Choice Award for White Collar Crime. He was the only individual from the United States selected for this award.
Mr. Chavkin practices in the firm’s Litigation Section and leads the New York team focused on White Collar Defense and Corporate Compliance and Internal Investigations. He is also an integral part of the firm’s Health Care Enforcement Defense and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) practice groups. Established in 2005, the ILO Client Choice Awards recognize law firms and individual attorneys around the world that “stand apart for the excellent client care they provide and the quality of their service.” Nominees are evaluated on their ability to “add real value to their clients' business above and beyond the other players in the market.” Recipients of the Clients Choice Award must be nominated by senior corporate counsel. The 2011 winners were selected from a pool of more than 2,000 individual client assessments.
"This is a fitting award for Peter,” said Robert I. Bodian, Managing Member of Mintz Levin and head of the New York Litigation Section. “His skill as a litigator is matched only by his level of service and commitment to his clients.”Mr. Chavkin has more than 25 years of experience focusing on white collar criminal defense. He has tried nearly 20 cases to verdict and argued almost as many appeals. He has represented a variety of high profile companies and individuals, health care professionals, investment analysts, senior corporate executives, and public officials in investigations conducted by the Department of Justice (DOJ), United States Attorneys’ Offices in a variety of districts, and regulatory bodies such as the SEC, NASD, NYSE, and other regulators and disciplinary committees.
In recent years, he has defended clients in a number of well known matters including several regulatory and legislative inquiries into the subprime crisis, one of the first Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) prosecutions, and, as counsel for Ruth Madoff, a variety of matters linked to the investigation of Bernard Madoff’s activities. In addition, he has significant experience with proceedings under the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), as well as investigations into violations of economic sanctions regulations.
Since 2006, Mr. Chavkin has been named by The Best Lawyers in America as one of the nation’s best white collar criminal defense lawyers. In recognition of his professional achievement, Mr. Chavkin was also named a 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 New York Super Lawyer in The New York Times, and in 2009 was nationally recognized in the Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition as one of the nation’s top attorneys for Criminal Defense: White Collar. In 2010 and again in 2011, Mr. Chavkin was recognized by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business as a leader in the “Litigation: White Collar Crime & Government Investigations” field.
Mr. Chavkin received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, and he received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He is admitted to practice in New York; Florida; the District of Columbia; the United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; the United States District Court, the Southern District of New York; the United States District Court, Eastern District of New York; and various other federal courts.
