Nikhil V. Gore represents financial institutions, sovereigns, and global corporations in investigations, disputes, and regulatory advocacy before U.S. and international financial services regulators.

As co-chair of Covington’s financial services investigations and government enforcement practice, Nikhil leads anti-financial crime investigations, as well as a wide range of financial institution governance, control, safety and soundness, and consumer and market conduct matters. He has served as lead counsel for multiple major financial institutions in safety-and-soundness matters before the OCC and Federal Reserve; secured unprecedented outcomes for community banks challenging FDIC supervisory and enforcement actions; and represented global banking institutions in anti-financial crime investigations in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.

Nikhil also counsels clients on a range of financial statutes and regulations, including those governing U.S. fiscal law and the investment and payment authorities of government agencies; the control of money laundering and the licensing of money transmission; and the combatting of terrorist financing.

In his disputes practice, Nikhil is part of the Covington team representing Ukraine in state-to-state arbitrations against the Russian Federation and was appointed by the Prosecutor-General of Ukraine to the Legal Task Force on Accountability for Russian War Crimes. He has handled treaty arbitrations and commercial disputes spanning Asia, Eastern Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Africa.