Kenton Atta-Krah

Kenton has broad experience working with clients in a range of high-stakes domestic and international white collar matters, including government and regulatory enforcement actions involving the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) among others, anti-corruption compliance matters, and internal investigations.

Kenton’s experience includes matters involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), and U.S. anti-money laundering (AML) regulations, among others. He has extensive experience responding to subpoenas and information requests from regulators and government entities and has had trial and litigation experience before the United Nations Dispute Tribunal in New York.

Kenton gained in-house legal experience with Morgan Stanley’s Wealth Management Advisory Legal team during a 2021 secondment, where, among other things, he provided legal and regulatory guidance to regional and complex risk officers and other company stakeholders on combatting and responding to fraud and other financial exploitation of seniors and vulnerable adults.

Kenton maintains an active pro bono practice. Through the Criminal Justice Act (“CJA”), he regularly represents incarcerated or indigent clients, including in Section 1983 civil rights actions.

Kenton is also a member of the firm’s Blockchain Regulatory practice. He has a particular interest in development and anti-corruption compliance matters involving Africa, with a focus on enforcement actions by multi-lateral development banks.

While in law school, he was a research assistant to Professor Doriane Coleman and interned with the CWS-RDU Immigration and Refugee Program. He also spent time as a Summer Associate at Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa & Ankomah, a law firm in Accra, Ghana.