Andrea Griswold

Andrea Griswold is a partner in Skadden’s White Collar Defense and Investigations Group, based in New York. She joined Skadden in 2024 after serving for 11 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), most recently as the Deputy U.S. Attorney (2022-2024) and before that as the Chief of the Office’s Securities Fraud Unit (2020-2022). As Deputy U.S. Attorney, Ms. Griswold oversaw all prosecutions in both the criminal and civil divisions and also oversaw SDNYs press office. As Chief of the Securities Fraud Unit, she supervised individual and corporate investigations concerning insider trading, investor fraud, accounting and valuation fraud, market manipulation, and money laundering. Many of the investigations she led concerned potential fraud in the asset management industry, including alleged fraud within hedge funds and private equity firms. Before leading the Securities Fraud Unit, Ms. Griswold served for seven years as an assistant U.S. attorney in the SDNY, where she investigated — and prosecuted through trial — a wide variety of securities fraud and other federal cases including several multiweek or monthlong fraud trials, all of which resulted in convictions. Prior to joining the SDNY, Ms. Griswold worked for five years as a white collar litigator at a global law firm. Ms. Griswold as tried three cases to verdict during this time, including two federal criminal trials, one of which ended in a hung jury and the other with an acquittal on the top charge.