Negar Tekeei

Drawing on her extensive experience as a former federal prosecutor, she helps clients across industries, including financial services, technology, cryptocurrency and the public sector, anticipate, navigate and respond to government investigations and enforcement actions.

Negar’s practice focuses on developing proactive strategies, managing risk and resolving high-stakes matters efficiently and effectively. She is recognized for her strategic leadership, courtroom advocacy and ability to guide clients through complex, multi-jurisdictional challenges.

Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland, Negar served for more than a decade as an Assistant United States Attorney at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, investigating, prosecuting and supervising a wide range of cases, including complex, cross-border white collar and national security matters. Most recently, as Co-Chief of the National Security and International Narcotics Unit, she oversaw investigations and prosecutions involving sanctions evasion, export control, money laundering, counterterrorism, counterintelligence, transnational repression and international narcotics and weapons trafficking. Negar also served as a member of SDNY’s Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, leading investigations and prosecutions involving an array of financial crimes, including securities fraud, investment adviser fraud, accounting fraud, insider trading, cryptocurrency-related fraud and market manipulation. She has handled and supervised numerous jury trials and argued before the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Negar’s experience includes investigating, prosecuting and supervising high-profile matters such as charges against senior leaders of terrorist organizations; sanctions-evasion, money laundering and terrorism charges against a billion-dollar international oil laundering network; export control, smuggling, wire fraud and money laundering charges based on a scheme to illegally procure large quantities of US-sourced sensitive microelectronics; insider trading by a former FBI new agent trainee and multiple other individuals who executed trades based on inside information misappropriated from an attorney at a major law firm; the prosecution of former principals of a registered investment adviser for operating a more than $100 million fraudulent scheme on multiple investment advisory clients; and the prosecution of co-founders of a start-up company for securities and wire fraud offenses in connection with fraudulent representations during fundraising efforts driven by an initial coin offering that raised more than $30 million.

Earlier in her career, Negar was a litigation associate at two prominent law firms, where she handled a variety of criminal and regulatory investigations involving securities fraud, antitrust and insider trading, and a range of civil and commercial disputes involving securities, trade secrets, consumer claims, First Amendment and media and contracts.