Davis, Polk & Wardwell

White-collar defense attorney Greg Andres is returning to Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York after 20 months on special counsel Robert Mueller III's investigative team.

Andres, who has had two previous stints at the firm, served as the lead trial lawyer in the successful prosecution of Paul Manafort in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

“Greg's impeccable judgment and tremendous experience as a trial lawyer, advocate and counselor is second to none,” managing partner Neil Barr said in a statement. “His perspective on high-stakes trials and white collar investigations is invaluable to both our world-class white collar practice and our litigation department, and he will be an indispensable asset to our clients. We are thrilled to welcome him home.”

Andres, 52,  first joined Davis Polk as a litigation associate in 1997 before leaving the firm two years later for a position as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York, where he spent nearly a decade based in Brooklyn. In 2010, Andres was named a deputy assistant attorney general of the U.S. Department of Justice's criminal division, where he oversaw the fraud and appellate sections.

He returned to Davis Polk in early 2012 as a partner in the firm's litigation and white-collar criminal defense group in New York.

“I am grateful to have had the opportunity to work with so many talented and dedicated professionals in law enforcement, and I look forward to rejoining the exceptional white collar team at Davis Polk and helping our clients on their most critical matters,” Andres said in a statement.

Andres' prosecution of former Trump campaign chair Manafort led to an August 2018 conviction on eight of 18 criminal counts alleging he hid money in overseas bank accounts, avoided paying U.S. taxes and defrauded banks in pursuit of loans, following a two-week trial.

Andres left the special counsel's office in March.

His colleague from the Manafort prosecution team, Brandon Van Grack, is now leading a specialized unit in the national security division focused on U.S. lobbying for foreign entities.

Meanwhile, another lead member of Muller's team, former Jenner & Block partner Andrew Weissmann, an ex-chief of the Justice Department's fraud section, returned to the New York University School of Law earlier this week as a distinguished senior fellow with the school's Center on the Administration of Criminal Law.

Mueller, a former Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr partner, has still given no hints about whether he'll return to his former firm. The special counsel's office includes three other former Wilmer lawyers: Jeannie Rhee, James Quarles and Aaron Zebley.

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