Four Partners Named to Securities Docket’s 2025 “Enforcement Elite”

Securities Docket recognized Kirkland partners Asheesh Goel, Zachary Brez, Nader Salehi and Kyle DeYoung as part of its 2025 “Enforcement Elite,” which honors the top securities enforcement defense counsel in the industry.

Asheesh is one of the leaders of Kirkland’s Government, Regulatory & Internal Investigations Practice Group and serves on the Firm’s Executive Committee. Asheesh advises clients on securities enforcement matters, including internal investigations, government investigations and enforcement actions. Asheesh has developed substantial depth on enforcement matters and transactional issues involving the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other related laws, financial statement and disclosure issues, insider trading, and other securities enforcement issues.

Zach works with companies and their senior officers and directors to investigate, mitigate, defend and advise on complex enforcement and regulatory matters in two primary areas: (1) securities, futures and derivative financial products before the DOJ, SEC and CFTC, as well as FINRA, the CME, ICE, CFE and others; and (2) international risk, such as antibribery and corruption, sanctions, anti-money laundering, and antiboycott issues.

Nader, described by clients as “a phenomenal lawyer” and a “go-to for sensitive internal investigations,” represents leading public companies and their boards of directors, some of the most significant public and private investment fund managers, and nearly all the major banks on Wall Street in the defense of financial fraud, false statement and insider trading claims in investigations prompted by the SEC, FINRA, alleged “whistleblowers” and the DOJ.

Kyle provides strategic counseling on complex regulatory issues or potential enforcement action, having represented clients on public company financial disclosures, accounting issues related to revenue recognition, investment adviser conflicts of interest, insider trading, the investment adviser marketing rule, tokenization and crypto-currency issues, the FCPA, disclosures of non-GAAP measures, SPACs, block trading, complex financial products, and whistleblower issues.