Andrea Levin Kim

Andrea Levin Kim is a partner in Diamond McCarthy’s Houston office. Her MBA and accounting background drive her national and international commercial investigation and litigation practice emphasis on corporate malfeasance and litigation involving complex financial transactions and damage modeling. Andrea is also a Certified Fraud Examiner as accredited by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Certified examiners are recognized as specialists in the prevention and deterrence of fraud by virtue of education and experience as well as technical proficiency in the areas of law applicable to fraud detection and prosecution, forensic investigation and complex financial transactions.

She leads corporate and business, trust, and investment portfolio investigations, including retentions for both internal investigations and investigations to assess potential claims against fiduciaries and other third parties. 

She prosecutes and defends claims for public and privately held companies, domestic and international financial institutions, financial services-related companies, and bankruptcy trustees and creditors. Andrea’s experience encompasses a wide range of substantive litigation with special emphasis and expertise in director, officer and commercial professional liability, including accounting and audit malpractice and legal malpractice, as well as securities fraud disputes. She also litigates cross-border disputes and complex commercial matters involving multiple-party and multiple-venue litigation. 

Andrea is often quoted as an expert in audit malpractice, and is the author of several articles in the corporate commercial responsibility arena. She has led multiple significant audit malpractice cases against big-six/big-four accounting firms with successful confidential results. She served as co-lead counsel in the successful representation of a class of more than 1,000 investors and the court-appointed liquidators/trustees for joint protocol multiple-country bankruptcy estates in audit malpractice claims against a Big Four accounting firm that resulted in a successful recovery. 

She has also taught legal research and writing as an adjunct professor at the University of Houston Law School.

Andrea is licensed to practice law in Texas and New York is a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Texas and the Houston Bar Association.  Andrea has been with Diamond McCarthy since the firm’s inception in 2000.