Mr. Kevin D. Evans

Kevin D. Evans is a partner with Armstrong Teasdale LLP in Denver and is a nationally recognized civil and white-collar criminal defense trial attorney. He also handles internal investigations arising out of actual or suspected wrongdoing. In his white-collar practice, Mr. Evans represented the U.S. Olym- pic Committee in connection with a grand jury investigation related to the award of the 2002 Winter Games to Salt Lake City, successfully defended a physician charged in 48 counts with violations of the Medicare/Medicaid anti-kickback statute, and has represented companies and individuals in an array of criminal environmental matters. He currently is representing two targets in grand jury investigations. Mr. Evans also successfully represented the former senior director of Financial Reporting at Qwest Communications during a six-year case brought by the SEC against his client and other former execu- tives, including the former CEO, alleging a $3 billion accounting fraud. He has conducted numerous internal investigations and spearheaded an investigation on behalf of a USAID contractor in Afghani- stan, visiting Afghanistan on two occasions to interview employees, former employees and vendors, and secured a declination. He also recently conducted a visa fraud investigation, visiting various client sites in India on multiple occasions to conduct interviews, and has conducted internal investigations for a variety of government contractors. Previously, Mr. Evans was a founding partner with Steese, Evans & Frankel P.C., was a partner at a large Washington, D.C.-based international law firm, and was a partner in a Chicago law firm. He is admitted to the Colorado, Illinois and Missouri Bar Associations and the U.S. Supreme Court, and is a Fellow in the Litigation Counsel of America. Mr. Evans received his B.A. magna cum laude in 1981 from Saint Louis University and his J.D. in 1984 from Saint Louis University School of Law, where he was editor-in-chief of the Saint Louis University Law Journal. A.