First up this week is a team at Cooley, led by Andrew Goldstein and Russell Capone, that represented Nishad Singh, the former director of engineering at FTX. Last year, Singh testified over two days at the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried as part of a cooperation agreement the team negotiated with federal prosecutors. The Cooley team represented Singh in parallel investigations by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the New York Attorney General’s Office. This week, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan cited Singh’s “remarkable” cooperation with investigators in sparing him a prison sentence. The Cooley team included associates Jorge Sarmiento and Anu Dhillon. 

Shout-out to a team at Covington & Burling led by Steven Fagell, Adam Studner and Joshua Roselman that represented Stanley Black & Decker as the company made voluntary disclosures to the DOJ and the SEC under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. SBD disclosed in its quarterly securities filing last week that the SEC and DOJ informed the company that they each closed their inquiries without taking action. The Covington team also included Funmi Anifowoshe-Manning, Kevin Coleman, Katrina Kleck, Bree Peilen, Molly Prindle, Andrew Timmick and Phoebe Yu, with lawyers at Baker McKenzie assisting in fact-finding.