Philip Khinda

Philip Khinda leads Khinda Advisory Limited in Abu Dhabi and Khinda Advisory PLLC in Washington, DC, serving clients globally on their most challenging regulatory, governance, compliance, and strategic matters.

Philip is an internationally recognized American lawyer and corporate adviser with over 25 years of experience guiding public and private companies, their boards, asset management firms and global financial institutions on risk management issues and in dealing with governance disputes, corporate crises, internal investigations and US and related law enforcement matters. Those clients have also included a broad group of corporate executives and public figures.

 He also regularly advises clients on multi-jurisdictional matters and emerging areas such as AI and cryptocurrencies. He is a frequent public speaker on these topics, and his work and commentary have been covered widely by the press, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Financial Times, Reuters, and Bloomberg, among others.
He is well-known for the many government investigations and inquiries he has resolved for clients without any charges being filed or any public disclosure of the government's interest ever being made, and no client he has represented from the outset of an investigation has ever been sued by the SEC or indicted.
Philip led the CalPERS Special Review, recovering over $200 million for the US’s largest state pension fund and negotiated its strategic relationships agreements with asset management firms Apollo Global Management, CIM Group and Ares Management, among others. His work has shaped governance and asset management practices and related legislation, earning recognition in case studies at Columbia Business School and elsewhere, and through his teachings at Georgetown law school, where he served as an adjunct professor for over two decades.

A former SEC enforcement attorney, Morgan Stanley analyst, and partner at a top Wall Street law firm, Philip has advised on major matters involving Enron, Global Crossing, JPMorgan, UBS, State Street Bank, Wells Fargo and PIMCO, among others, appearing before US and international securities regulators and prosecutors on their behalf. He is a fellow of the American College of Governance Counsel and taught its Masters Class on internal investigations and special situations. He is consistently ranked among the US’s top advisers on securities regulation and enforcement matters, and crisis management by The Best Lawyers in America, Legal 500 and The National Law Journal, among others, and he was also named to the Lawdragon "500 Leading Global Litigators" guide. He is a former Vice Chair of the American Bar Association’s Corporate Governance Committee, and served as Chair of its Ethics and Investigations Subcommittee, a post he held for over 15 years. 


Philip holds dual US and Swiss citizenship, and is also fluent in French. He earned both his undergraduate and law degrees from Columbia University.