Nicholas S. Goldin - Partner
Combining his extensive experience in private practice and as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, Nick Goldin is a Litigation Partner and Global Co-Head of the Firm’s Government and Internal Investigations Practice. He represents public and private companies, private equity and financial services firms, board committees, and executives in a broad range of high stakes and otherwise sensitive situations often involving intersecting investigations, litigation, and public scrutiny. These matters include white collar criminal, regulatory, and Congressional inquiries, internal investigations, cybersecurity incidents, and other critical situations that present significant legal and reputational risk. Nick also regularly provides strategic counsel to corporate leadership on crisis, compliance, and governance matters.
Nick has handled matters across virtually every industry—including asset management and financial services, technology, social media, AI, data science, real estate, outsourcing, insurance, aerospace and defense, leisure, entertainment and sports, travel, hospitality and gaming, food services, industrial manufacturing, utilities and infrastructure, oil and gas, retail and direct sales, transportation and automotive, health care and life sciences, traditional media, and cultural and nonprofit.
Consistently recognized in leading industry surveys, Nick has been ranked in Chambers as among the top 15 crisis and risk management lawyers in the United States. Clients and other market participants have described Nick to Chambers USA as “a first-class legal and strategic mind,” “really extraordinary,” “incredibly insightful,” “an excellent counselor,” “a pleasure to deal with,” and the “complete package” with “tremendous judgment and outstanding adversarial skills” and “an unusual blend of understanding both the law and the business angles very well” who “knows how to see around the corners,” “fearlessly . . . defends his clients’ interests” and is “able to connect the dots probably better than any other attorney I’ve worked with.” Sources also report to Chambers USA that Nick “takes the time to figure it out, to understand our pressure points, and he manages his team to effectively get us from point A to point B,” has “the ability and desire to understand the details and nuances of complicated situations,” “manages stressful situations with poise, clarity and calmness,” and provides “excellent leadership and counsel on sensitive matters requiring timely and thoughtful execution.” A client told Chambers USA that “I sleep well at night knowing that Nick Goldin is advising us.”
In addition to recognition as a leading lawyer in Chambers USA for White Collar Crime/Government Investigations and in Chambers Crisis & Risk Management, Nick has been recognized in Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders in Business Crime Defense for Corporates, The Legal 500, and Euromoney’s Benchmark Litigation. Nick has been named as a BTI Client Service All-Star nominated by in-house counsel for “the absolute best client service,” as a recipient of Lexology’s Client Choice Award for Business Crime Defense nominated by corporate counsel for excellent client care and service above and beyond the other players in the market, and as a Distinguished Adviser in Investigations and White Collar Crime on Financier Worldwide’s Power Players list.
Nick has served as Co-Chair of Simpson Thacher’s Finance Committee and as a Hiring Partner. Nick was Editor-in-Chief of the Cornell Law Review in law school.