K. Edward Raleigh
From the boardroom to the courtroom, C-suites, corporate boards, and immigration program managers rely on Eddie for practical, business-oriented counsel. In both arenas, he focuses on strategic risk management and bet-the-company and bet-the-immigration-program investigations and disputes.
Strategic Insight
For Eddie, the discipline of immigration law serves as a platform for enterprise risk management. He advises companies—especially Fragomen’s largest tech and infotech clients—on the subtle but consequential intersections between immigration programs and other business processes. Eddie develops immigration and global mobility strategies that harness the law while managing risk. He helps companies leverage immigration to enrich core business functions, including recruiting, human resources, operations, and mergers and acquisitions.
His wide-ranging strategic experience includes the development of immigration policies, compensation protocols, compliance programs, and anti-human trafficking campaigns. He is a key player in complex transaction strategy and due diligence. And the world’s most valuable companies have sought his advice on navigating the vagaries of the COVID-19 pandemic, changing educational trends, and the impact of the broader economy on their risk profiles.
Investigations
Eddie has a particular focus on complex cross-border immigration investigations involving unlawful employment of workers and visa fraud/misuse and has defended companies and individuals in all types of actions from securities, tax, and healthcare fraud to complex civil transactions gone wrong. He offers clients a unique perspective in immigration law: that of a practitioner who has not spent their entire career in immigration law.
He represents the largest users of U.S. business immigration programs and other publicly traded companies in immigration-related government enforcement investigations, ranging from administrative enforcement proceedings to grand jury investigations and asset forfeiture cases.
He has tackled the range of investigation topics and themes, including mandatory and voluntary disclosures of wrongdoing, vicarious corporate liability, forfeiture allegations and criminal investigations.
Disputes
Eddie is one of firm’s go-to courtroom attorneys. He has represented clients in contested proceedings in federal, state, and administrative courts across the country and has served as counsel on dozens of cases before the Justice Department’s Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer or the Labor Department’s Office of Administrative Law Judges.
Before joining Fragomen, Eddie spent six years representing companies and individuals in complex civil litigation and enforcement proceedings, including federal criminal jury trials, first at a boutique white collar defense firm and then as an associate at an AmLaw 100 firm.
Board & Volunteer Service
Eddie’s understands the complexities of large organizations as they manage risk. He previously served as the Legal Counsel to the Maryland Republican Party. Eddie is a member of the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) and serves on GBTA’s Government Relations Committee.
Outside of his work at the Firm, Eddie is a member of the Executive Committee of the Washington College Alumni Association, where he was previously the Secretary and is currently Chair-Elect. He served as a Legal Intern at the New York County District Attorney’s Office in 2010.