Mylan L. Denerstein, Co-Chair of the Public Policy Practice Group and a member of the Crisis Management, White Collar Defense and Investigations, Financial Institutions, Securities Litigation, and Appellate Practice Groups, leads complex litigation and internal investigations, representing companies confronting a wide range of legal issues, in their most critical times. Mylan is Global Chair of the Firm’s Diversity Committee and Co-Partner in Charge of the New York office. Benchmark Litigation has repeatedly named Mylan to its “Top 250 Women in Litigation” list, and she has been recognized as a “Litigation Star” nationally in Appellate, Securities and White-Collar Crime, as well as in New York. In July of 2022, The AmLaw Litigation Daily named Mylan a “Litigator of the Week” for securing a sentence of no jail time for a prominent New York real estate developer.
In 2022, Mylan was appointed to serve as the independent NYPD Monitor to oversee the court ordered reform process. Previously, she has served in a wide variety of leadership roles in government, including as Counsel to the New York State Governor, as an Executive Deputy Attorney General in the New York Attorney General’s Office, and as Deputy Commissioner for Legal Affairs for the New York City Fire Department. Additionally, Mylan served as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, prosecuting complex securities and fraud cases, and then as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division.
Mylan is a member of the Women’s White Collar Defense Association, Association of Black Women Attorneys, New York City Bar Association, National Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, and Metropolitan Black Bar Association. She also serves on the Boards of the American Red Cross of Greater New York, Sanctuary for Families and the City Bar Fund of the New York City Bar Association.
Mylan graduated in 1993 from Columbia Law School, where she was named a Charles Evans Hughes Fellow and was a recipient of the Jane Marks Murphy Prize.
Updated July 2024
