Kenneth Polite.

Based in Sidley’s Washington, D.C. office, Kenneth Polite is a global co-leader of the firm’s White Collar Defense and Investigations practice and the former Senate-confirmed Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). Kenneth represents leading corporations and executives in internal and government investigations as well as in crisis management and compliance matters.

As the highest-ranking attorney in DOJ’s Criminal Division, Kenneth led a team of more than 1,400 attorneys and staff members who were responsible for conducting criminal investigations and prosecutions in many of the most wide-ranging and complex criminal cases at the Department involving securities fraud, healthcare fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, public corruption, cybercrime, intellectual property theft, and money laundering offenses. In that role, he also traveled extensively to work with his counterparts around the world in multinational and cross-border investigations.

Kenneth’s private practice experience includes representing corporations in sensitive government enforcement matters before the DOJ and other federal and state entities. He has also conducted internal investigations on behalf of companies and boards of directors, particularly in the energy, financial, healthcare, life sciences, and technology sectors, and counseled management on corporate compliance and governance.

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Admitted only in Delaware, Louisiana, New York, and Pennsylvania; practicing law in the District of Columbia under the supervision of principals of the firm who are members in good standing of the D.C. Bar.

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