Michael Z. Gurland is co-chair of Neal Gerber Eisenberg’s White Collar Criminal, Regulatory & Internal Investigative Services Practice Group and a member of its Securities & Commodities Litigation Practice Group. He most recently served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. He is available to conduct corporate investigations as well as handle regulatory and litigation matters utilizing his decade of intensive courtroom experience and investigative skills.

As an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Michael handled dozens of Grand Jury investigations, trials and appeals involving a broad range of criminal conduct including securities fraud, tax fraud, mortgage fraud, identity fraud, fraud in the sale of medical devices, bank embezzlement, money laundering, thefts from corporations, and drug trafficking offenses. He was also in charge of several major Title III wire tap investigations, including an investigation of municipal workers engaged in a heroin distribution and money laundering ring.

Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2002, Michael was part of an elite unit at the New York County (Manhattan) District Attorney’s Office focusing on the prosecution of complex white collar criminal cases. As an Assistant District Attorney in New York, he handled several lengthy investigations of clearing firms, broker-dealers and investment advisors. Cases brought during his tenure included a felony insider trading case involving a compliance officer at a major investment bank, the investigation of one of the largest clearing firms in the U.S. resulting in a $48 million settlement and the prosecution and trial of brokers and market-makers for securities frauds involving illegal market manipulations, net capital violations, fraud in connection with IPOs and unauthorized trading.

Before his government service, Michael was a partner at the law firm of Anderson Kill & Olick, P.C. engaged in a general commercial litigation practice and concentrating on the litigation, trial and settlement of complex insurance coverage disputes for several Fortune 500 companies.

Michael was admitted to the New York bar in 1991 and to the Illinois bar in 2001. He is also admitted to practice in the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and for the Northern District of Illinois, as well as the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Second and Seventh Circuits. He is also a member of the Illinois Trial Bar.

Michael earned his J.D. in 1990 from the University of Michigan Law School. In 1986, he graduated, summa cum laude, from Emory University.

• New York, 1991
• Illinois, 2001

• Emory University (B.A., 1986) summa cum laude
• University of Michigan Law School (J.D., 1990)