Cooley announced Tuesday that Rebekah Donaleski, who most recently served as chief of the public corruption unit in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, has joined the firm as a partner in white-collar defense and investigations group

In nearly a decade at the SDNY, Donaleski tried nine cases to guilty verdicts and supervised 10 trials. Her tenure at the public corruption unit included the investigation and indictment of Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, the trial of Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell and the foreign election interference case against Lev Parnas.