Kenya K. Davis

Formerly an Assistant United States Attorney, Kenya has 20 years of experience in high-stakes trials and investigations, including more than a decade as a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.

In that role, she represented the United States as lead counsel in 35 jury trials, 15 bench trials, and several evidentiary hearings involving complicated issues of first impression. She and her team prevailed in convicting a trafficker of adult sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion, in one of the first federal trials of its kind in D.C. She also handled more than 100 grand jury investigations and defended 13 verdicts before the D.C. Court of Appeals. Kenya also served as co-chair of the D.C. Human Trafficking Task Force, a group of nearly 75 senior federal and local law enforcement officials, government agency leaders, and NGO executives, working to increase the prosecution of traffickers, provide comprehensive services to victims, and coordinate anti-trafficking efforts in the D.C. area.

At Boies Schiller Flexner, Kenya focuses on investigations and compliance work, particularly ESG-related issues such as ensuring the integrity of supply chains and labor practices. She also works with BSF attorneys on sex trafficking and sexual assault cases.

Kenya is an adjunct professor at American University where she teaches a course on the laws and policies surrounding domestic violence.

Kenya's recent representative matters include:

• In August 2023, secured a jury verdict of $612.4 million in the D.D.C. on behalf of a class of private shareholders of Fannie and Freddie in the retrial of claims that the Federal Housing Finance Agency improperly amended stock purchase agreements in 2012 to sweep all the profits from Fannie and Freddie to the Treasury

• Representing a major U.S. based corporation providing Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act (UFLPA) compliance advice
• Defending Romero Cabral Da Costa Neto, who has been charged with insider trading by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia

Co-author, When #MeToo Intersects with US Government Enforcement: Sexual Misconduct as Securities Fraud, Global Investigations Review (January 2024)

Author, Examining Supply Chains for Labor Trafficking and Abuses, Risk Management Magazine (December 2022)

Co-author, Intra-Family Violence: Children and Other Vulnerable Victims in the Criminal Justice System, Conference Handbook (Mauritius 2013)

Co-author, Is that a Bribe? 26 Int'l Fin. L. Rev. 76, 76 (2007)