Mr. Andres is a partner in Davis Polk’s Litigation Department, concentrating in white collar criminal defense and representing clients in both civil and criminal trials. He has represented individuals, financial institutions and other entities in a wide range of regulatory and criminal investigations involving market manipulation, insider trading, securities, procurement and tax fraud, and money laundering. He also has extensive experience in anti-corruption matters, both in private practice and at the Department of Justice; his current practice involves investigations that span the globe from China to Europe, India and Mexico. 

Mr. Andres is an experienced trial lawyer who has conducted more than a dozen jury trials and supervised dozens of others involving financial fraud, FCPA, terrorism, and organized crime. He served as the lead trial lawyer in the first criminal trial stemming from the recent financial crisis. In private practice, he has served as trial counsel on a variety of matters involving antitrust claims, securities fraud, legal malpractice and FCPA issues. 

He previously served in senior government positions during more than a decade at the U.S. Department of Justice, including most recently as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division at the Department of Justice, where he supervised both the Fraud and Appellate Sections and managed the Department’s FCPA program. He previously served as Chief of the Criminal Division at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York, where he supervised more than 100 federal prosecutors in a wide range of investigations and prosecutions. He also represented the Department before Congress, testifying before both houses. Mr. Andres served on several task forces while at the Department of Justice, including the Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force (and before that, the Corporate Fraud Task Force), the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT), the Attorney General’s Sentencing and Corrections Working Group, the FBI’s Human Source Review Committee, and the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee Criminal Chiefs’ Working Group.