Few attorneys have had a career as broad and varied as Robert Khuzami's, which has ranged from private practice to federal prosecutor to bank general counsel to enforcement director at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Khuzami, 60, is now a partner at Kirkland & Ellis' government and internal investigations group, splitting his time between the firm's New York and Washington offices.

As an assistant U.S. attorney in Manhattan (1990-2002), he served three years as chief of the securities and commodities fraud task force. There, he prosecuted the so-called “blind sheik” along with other co-defendants in the 1993 terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center. Khuzami served as litigation chief and later general counsel for the Americas at Deutsche Bank until 2009, when he joined the SEC as director of enforcement for four years in the wake of the financial crisis.