Jonathan S. Kolodner is a partner based in the New York office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. Before joining Cleary Gottlieb, he was a prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York from 2000 to 2012, where he served in numerous leadership positions and oversaw some of the most significant, high-profile investigations and prosecutions in the country. Most recently, Kolodner served as acting chief of the Criminal Division from October 2011 through January 2012. In that role, he supervised the office’s more than 160 prosecutors in a wide range of matters including securities fraud, other complex white-collar crimes, terrorism, and violent crimes. Prior to that, Kolodner spent two years as the chief of the Complex Frauds Unit. He also served as the mortgage fraud coordinator, where he supervised a strike force of assistant U.S. attorneys investigating mortgage fraud and other financial schemes in response to the financial crisis. Kolodner received his Bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.