Henry Asbill

Hank Asbill provides clients with more than four decades of exemplary jury trial and appellate experience. Over the course of his career, he has successfully defended corporate and individual clients in a wide range of criminal and civil matters in more than 100 trials and 30 appeals in federal and state courts across the country. His work includes white collar defense, securities litigation, complex civil litigation and antitrust and corporate investigations.

• Engagements

  Some of his more noteworthy matters include:

  • Defended former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell, whose public corruption convictions were unanimously overturned by the Supreme Court, which ruled that the government overreached in defining when a public servant’s actions are “official acts”
  • Represented on appeal Bridget Kelly, the former deputy chief of staff to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, whose trial conviction was recently reversed in a unanimous decision by the US Supreme Court
  • Defended Mahmood Karzai, the brother of Hamid Karzai, former President of Afghanistan, in a federal grand jury investigation in the Southern District of New York, regarding alleged tax, money laundering, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violation, that concluded without any charges being brought
  • Achieved an appellate victory in defending the estate of Michael Jackson and MJJ Productions, Inc., when the D.C. Circuit unanimously affirmed a lower court ruling that what the plaintiff referred to as “newly discovered evidence” was not admissible
  • Won successive criminal and civil jury trials involving securities-fraud charges brought against a former vice president of a mainstream online service provider by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Secured an acquittal on all counts for a lead defendant in a RICO case in the longest criminal trial in federal court history