Judy Krieg started her legal career over 30 years ago in the US and has spent more than half that time handling international matters from the UK. She focuses her practice on representing corporations and individuals in white collar matters, including government and internal investigations, financial crime, compliance, and cyber issues.
Throughout her career, she has held leadership roles both in government and in-house. Most recently, Judy was a Joint Head of Fraud, Bribery, and Corruption at the UK Serious Fraud Office. Her government experience also includes being an enforcement lawyer at the UK Financial Services Authority (now the Financial Conduct Authority) handling criminal and regulatory matters. Judy also has extensive in-house experience, including as Chief Compliance Officer of Rolls Royce plc and Willis and in other compliance roles at Microsoft and Red Robin Gourmet Burgers.
Judy has led case teams that investigated and successfully resolved cases of complex fraud, bribery and corruption, cyber breaches, and compliance program design, implementation, and remediation. Judy specializes in value-add compliance due diligence for high-risk mergers and acquisitions as well as pragmatic, data-driven compliance remediation and solutions. She has significant experience in data privacy (GDPR) issues affecting investigations and litigation and maintains a CIPP/E certification.
She has experience working closely with law enforcement and regulatory bodies in the US (DOJ, SEC, CFTC, and FTC), UK (SFO, FCA, and ICO), and internationally (Australia Federal Police, Monetary Authority of Singapore, Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets, and numerous EU data protection authorities). Judy has litigated matters in numerous state and federal courts.
In addition to being a member of the New York bar, Judy is a solicitor in England and Wales. She holds a master's degree in software and systems security from the University of Oxford and was named as one of Global Investigation Review's Women in Investigations in 2015.
