Karyn Kenny is an attorney with the NYC law firm of DeMarco Law, PLCC, focusing on international matters and emerging financial technology given her extensive experience advising both domestic and international stakeholders on combating financial crime, FinTech, Metaverse(s), cryptocurrency, and AI.
Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Kenny served as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in a variety of roles, including prosecuting complex financial crime, negotiating asset sharing agreements with foreign governments, and as a legal advisor for three U.S. embassies, she worked closely with national and international organizations, including the United Nations, the Financial Action Task Force, Interpol, and central banks in Asia, Europe, and Latin America.
Ms. Kenny also served as a World Bank consultant and rule of law expert, working closely with EU and senior government officials of EU candidate countries to harmonize their justice institutions with the EU acquisition communautaire.
Working at the forefront of innovative legal issues, she designed and taught the first course on the FinTech Ecosystem for U.S. federal prosecutors, analysts, and law enforcement agents for the DOJ’s National Advocacy Center and worked with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to design and create a series of FinTech focused public/private dialogues. In 2023, Ms. Kenny was selected to be a member of Interpol’s expert subgroup for the publication, “Metaverse – A Law Enforcement Perspective.”
She has served as a U.S. Supreme Court Fellow, a Fulbright Scholar, and as an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Ms. Kenny is the recipient of the U.S. Department of State’s Meritorious Honor Award and a DOJ Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys Director’s Award.
Ms. Kenny has published articles in the World Bank Legal Review and the DOJ’s Journal of Federal Law and Practice. She has lectured in over twenty-five countries, including at the World Bank, the Brookings Institution, and Thomson Reuters. She has taught at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland, the International Law Enforcement Academy – Budapest, the DEA Academy, and at the University of Nevada, where she received an award for outstanding teaching.
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