Philip Khinda

Philip S. Khinda is a partner in Steptoe’s Washington office, and focuses on internal investigations as well as securities enforcement and corporate governance matters. He is co-head of the firm’s SEC enforcement practice, and a member of its White-Collar Criminal Defense Group. He also serves as Chair of the Ethics and Investigations Subcommittee of the American Bar Association's Corporate Governance Committee. In 2013, Securities Docket named him to its inaugural “Enforcement 40,” a list of the 40 leading securities enforcement defense attorneys in the country. Mr. Khinda is a leading adviser to boards and special committees of US public companies and financial institutions. He regularly assists corporate boards and management in conducting internal investigations, and in addressing sensitive governance and financial issues, including in connection with related government investigations and securities litigation. His leadership of the CalPERS Special Review, its fee recovery of over $200 million for the nation's largest state pension fund, and its March 2011 public report on pay-to-play and public corruption issues are recent representative efforts. Earlier in his career, Mr. Khinda served as a staff attorney and senior counsel with the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, where he led a number of high-profile and sensitive investigations, including financial fraud, investment management, market manipulation, and insider trading matters. He was previously an analyst and associate with Morgan Stanley & Company in New York. For the last 15 years, Mr. Khinda has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University, and published and taught on financial reporting and accounting, corporate governance, crisis management, securities regulation, and SEC enforcement matters. Columbia Law School, J.D., 1992 Columbia College, B.A., 1986