Andrew Lourie

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Lawyer

Andrew C. Lourie is an experienced trial lawyer who practices in the areas of government enforcement defense, international judgment enforcement and asset recovery, and investigations and monitorships. Mr. Lourie has represented numerous corporate officers against the government in matters involving commodities futures manipulation, spoofing, insider trading, International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other laws with international applications. He is also engaged by major international corporations as special counsel to conduct sensitive internal investigations.

Mr. Lourie has litigated some of the highest-profile cases brought by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Among his more notable matters was the representation at trial of DRW Trading and its founder against allegations of manipulation of interest rate futures, brought by the CFTC, and the representation at trial of Brian Hunter, the former head of energy trading for a US $9 billion hedge fund, Amaranth Advisors LLC, against allegations of manipulation of natural gas futures, brought by the FERC and CFTC.

He was recently recognized as a top practitioner in the area by Chambers & Partners, which found that Mr. Lourie’s “skills are extraordinary, and his judgment is first-rate.” Mr. Lourie has also been involved in some of the highest-profile matters in the areas of international judgment enforcement and asset forfeiture and recovery, and he is recognized as a top practitioner by publishers of the Global Arbitration Review for his outstanding work in this area. Mr. Lourie’s experience includes the victory against the U.S. government before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit in the representation of Tiger Eye Investments, Ltd., an investment company located in the Cayman Islands, involving the release of US $400 million of trust assets.

Before joining Kobre & Kim, Mr. Lourie served in various high-level positions with the DOJ, including as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and chief of staff for the Criminal Division and as chief of DOJ’s Public Integrity Section. As Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and chief of staff, Mr. Lourie was responsible for the day-to-day operations of the DOJ’s 438-lawyer Criminal Division in Washington DC. As chief of the Public Integrity Section, he supervised the nation’s most sensitive public corruption prosecutions, including investigations into bribery on Capitol Hill and in the executive branch emanating from the prosecution of former lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Mr. Lourie also served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Southern District of Florida, where he investigated and prosecuted securities fraud and healthcare fraud cases and headed the Major Crimes unit and the West Palm Beach office. He also served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, focusing on public corruption matters.

Before working as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Mr. Lourie practiced at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in New York.