Longtime U.S. Prosecutor Joins Locke Lord as Partner

Andrew Fish, a longtime Southern District assistant U.S. attorney, has left the office to join Locke Lord, where he is a partner in the white-collar and internal investigations practice. Fish, 46, has served in the U.S. attorney’s Criminal Division for the past 14 years, most recently as deputy chief of the appeals unit. He was previously with the securities and commodities fraud task force and the major crimes unit. He has experience on matters involving insider trading, securities fraud, bank fraud, wire fraud, embezzlement and other jury trials, the firm said. He recently represented the government before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in the insider-trading case against Galleon Group hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam.

Fish started yesterday at Locke Lord’s 46-lawyer New York office. Fish, who worked with a recruiter, said he did not have any prior connection to the firm but was impressed with its roster of white-collar lawyers, including Paul Coggins, the white-collar defense and internal investigations practice chair in Dallas who once served as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas.