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Cyrus Vance Jr., former Manhattan district attorney who led a criminal probe into United States President-elect Donald Trump’s business dealings, has joined the Paris branch of global law firm Baker McKenzie.
“We are delighted to welcome Cyrus Vance Jr, former Manhattan District Attorney (2010-2021) to Baker McKenzie Paris. He will provide clients with his widely recognized expertise in criminal law, cross-border investigations and compliance,” the company wrote on Tuesday in a post on LinkedIn.
Baker McKenzie announced the transfer just days before the U.S. president-elect’s inauguration on Jan. 20. Marie E. Hebert, the firm’s director of global media relations, said his “move to Paris has nothing to do with the fact that he investigated President-elect Trump.”
Vance has for the past two years served as a partner in Baker McKenzie’s New York office, and prior to that served three consecutive four-year terms as Manhattan’s district attorney, handling landmark criminal prosecutions.
During that time, Vance oversaw several wide-ranging investigations into Trump and his family business.
Aspects of those investigations culminated in the infamous hush money trial after which Vance’s successor charged Trump with 34 felony counts. Trump was found guilty of falsifying business records to cover up a payment to a porn star in exchange for her silence before the 2016 election about a sexual encounter she said they had in 2006.
The unanimous verdict meant Trump was the first former — and ultimately future — president to become a convicted felon.
