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Roger Burlingame is a partner at the disputes and investigations firm, Kobre & Kim. Mr. Burlingame’s practice concentrates on white-collar criminal defense, internal investigations and regulatory enforcement matters that involve the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He represents individuals and corporations in cross-border U.S. government investigations and at trial. Mr. Burlingame has in-depth experience with high-profile U.S. investigations into financial market manipulation, fraud, collusion and abuse, as well as Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations throughout Europe and Africa, money laundering and asset forfeiture, and the evasion of U.S. taxes in international tax havens.

Prior to joining Kobre & Kim, Mr. Burlingame served as Chief of the Public Integrity Section and Senior Trial Counsel in the Business and Securities Fraud Section as a prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice (as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York). In these roles, he led and supervised scores of white-collar criminal matters, including securities, corporate, tax, healthcare and accounting frauds, collusive market practices and bribery/FCPA investigations. Mr. Burlingame also led and oversaw mutual legal assistance treaty requests and extraditions.