Edward Kang

Edward (Ted) Kang is the co-leader of Alston and Bird’s White Collar, Government and Internal Investigations Team, head of the D.C. office’s Litigation Group, and a member of the firm’s Partners Committee. His practice focuses on representing clients in government, regulatory, and internal investigations and compliance with the False Claims Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctions.
Ted represents companies and individuals under investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Securities and Exchange Commission, and other federal state enforcement and regulatory agencies. He counsels and conducts internal investigations for clients in an array of industries. Ted has a robust complex commercial litigation practice, particularly in the health care and financial services industries. He is an accomplished courtroom lawyer and has tried a dozen cases to verdict and argued 13 cases before federal circuit courts.
Ted served for eight years as a federal prosecutor in the DOJ Criminal Division and at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut, where he prosecuted some of the department’s most high-profile fraud and public corruption cases.