Mr. Robbins was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of California (San Francisco) for ten years, prosecuting and supervising a variety of corporate fraud cases involving securities, commodities, mail and wire fraud, insider trading, money laundering, theft of trade secrets and obstruction. He represented the United States in numerous federal jury trials and appellate arguments before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. From 2002 to 2004, he was Chief of the Office’s Securities Fraud Section and led the Department of Justice’s investigation into criminal manipulation of the California electricity markets by Enron and others during the State’s energy crisis.

Mr. Robbins first joined Shearman & Sterling in 1988 as a summer associate, and again as an associate in 1990 after a federal clerkship. Throughout his tenure with the firm, Mr. Robbins has defended companies in civil securities class actions, antitrust and tender offer litigation in state and federal courts. He has also litigated and tried commercial disputes in international and domestic arbitrations.

• Companies, officers and directors and Special Committees in over a dozen stock option backdating matters, in internal investigations, civil derivative and class actions, and before the SEC and DOJ
• Executives of multinational technology corporations in Department of Justice Antitrust Division grand jury investigations and prosecutions relating to alleged price-fixing cartels
• Officers and employees of publicly traded companies accused of revenue recognition and other accounting improprieties, before the SEC and DOJ
• Several multinational corporations, in internal investigations and before the DOJ and SEC, regarding alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
• Officers of publicly held biotechnology companies in U.S. Attorney’s Office investigations into alleged improper drug marketing practices
• As trial counsel in a successful AAA arbitration on behalf of a publicly held biotechnology company in a multi-million dollar contractual dispute with a genomics database co-developer

• Member, State Bar of California; American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section; International Bar Association, Business Crimes Section
• Member of Northern District of California Criminal Justice Act Panel, representing indigent federal criminal defendants
• Court-appointed civil case mediator and Early Neutral Evaluator, Northern District of California
• Professional Responsibility Officer, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of California (2002-2004) – advised prosecutors and law enforcement agencies regarding application of state bar and DOJ rules of ethics

• C5 Anti-Corruption Bootcamp, Multi-Jurisdictional Investigations: Strategies to Avoid Double Jeopardy; Paris, France (September 2008)
• Cal Law Roundtable, Criminalization Of Noncompliance: How Do GC’s Protect Their Companies and Themselves?; San Francisco, California (October 2007)
• International Bar Association, Transnational Crimes Conference, Internal Investigative Tactics; Washington, D.C. (June 2007)
• Trial Advocacy Instructor, United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; Arusha, Tanzania (November 2005)
• Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Compliance and Legal Division Conference, Document Destruction; Scottsdale, Arizona (March 2004) and Palm Desert, California (March 2005)
• Securities and Exchange Commission, National Enforcement Conference, DOJ/SEC Coordination Strategies; Washington, D.C. (April 2004)
• Department of Justice National Advocacy Center, Assistant Attorney General’s Panel on Prosecution of Corporations; Columbia, South Carolina (February 2004)
• Stanford University Directors College, Criminal Exposure for Board Members; Palo Alto, California (June 2003)
• Northern District of California Judicial Conference, Loss Calculation under the Sentencing Guidelines in Criminal Securities Fraud Cases; Santa Rosa, California (April 2003)
• Federal Bureau of Investigation Academy, Investigative Tactics in Criminal Securities Fraud Cases, Quantico, Virginia (April 2001)

• Criminalization Of Noncompliance: How Do GC’s Protect Their Companies and Themselves?,
  GC Magazine, October 25, 2007
• Document Destruction and Obstruction of Justice: Why Arthur Andersen Doesn’t Matter, Journal of Investment Compliance, Vol. 6, No. 3 (January 2006)
• “S.F. Fraud Chief Flies DOJ Coop for Shearman,” The Recorder, July 8, 2004
• “Lessons of the Scandals,” Corporate Board Member Magazine, July/August 2004
• “Local U.S. Attorneys Crack Down,” ABC News, San Francisco, June 3, 2003
• “High Voltage Team:  Investigators Will Seek Inside Wire on Who Rigged the Energy Crisis,”
  San Francisco Chronicle, December 15, 2002
• “Finding Wrongs, Through the Prism of Silicon Valley,” The New York Times/International Herald Tribune, December 31, 2002