Acting General Counsel, Guggenheim Investments and Managing Partner, Guggenheim Partners
Rob Khuzami serves as Acting General Counsel of Guggenheim Investments and Chief Legal Officer of Guggenheim Partners. He is also a Managing Partner of Guggenheim Partners.
Before joining Guggenheim in 2019, Mr. Khuzami served as Director of the Division of Enforcement of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, assuming the role of managing 1,400 enforcement personnel shortly after the 2008 financial crisis and immediately following revelations of Bernard Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme. In that role, President Obama appointed him to serve as co-chair of two federal-state task forces created to prosecute financial-crisis misconduct, and he testified on 11 occasions before House and Senate congressional committees.
From January 2018 through April 2019, Mr. Khuzami served as Deputy United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. He was the acting United States Attorney in charge of United States v. Cohen, in which Michael Cohen, the ex-counsel to President Trump, was convicted of campaign finance and other crimes. From 1990 to 2002, Rob served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in that same Office, where he tried ten criminal trials to verdict, including the then-largest terrorism trial in the history of the United States, and served as Chief of its Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force.
Mr. Khuzami has also served as a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, as well as both Global Head of Litigation and Regulatory Investigations and as General Counsel for the Americas for Deutsche Bank AG.
Mr. Khuzami graduated magna cum laude, from the University of Rochester, where he received his BA in political science and philosophy and elected to Phi Beta Kappa and earned his JD from the Boston University School of Law.