Kenya K. Davis

Formerly an Assistant United States Attorney, Kenya has more than 20 years of experience representing clients in high-stakes trials, investigations, and complex commercial litigation. She has advised corporations, investors, and individuals across industries, and she helps clients juggle the various issues that arise in high-profile disputes, including inevitable media scrutiny, while maintaining a focus on their overall goals.

Since joining Boies Schiller Flexner, Kenya has handled several trials on topics ranging investor-related class action litigation against the Federal Housing Finance Agency to labor trafficking claims for five immigrant workers. In addition to investigations and commercial litigation work, Kenya advises companies on ESG-related issues, such as ensuring the integrity of supply chains and labor practices. She also co-leads the firm’s sexual misconduct litigation and investigations practice and has represented numerous clients in litigation filed under New York’s Adult Survivors Act and other similar legislation.

Kenya spent over a decade as a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, representing the United States as lead counsel in 35 jury trials, 15 bench trials, and evidentiary hearings involving complicated issues of first impression. In one of the first federal trials of its kind in D.C., she prevailed in convicting a trafficker of adult sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion. She also handled more than 100 grand jury investigations and defended 13 verdicts before the D.C. Court of Appeals. 

While working in government, 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.

Kenya has served as an adjunct professor at American University where she teaches a course on the laws and policies surrounding domestic violence.  She is currently the Chair of the Litigation Committee for the McDowell Social Justice Center.

Kenya's recent representative matters have included:

• Securing a jury verdict of $612.4 million (worth more than $900 million with interest) in the D.D.C. on behalf of a class of private shareholders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac 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
• Bringing a labor trafficking case to trial for five Guatemalan migrant farmworkers, which resulted in securing a $570,000 jury verdict for the plaintiffs, including $450,000 in punitive damages under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act
• Advising music executive Drew Dixon and several other plaintiffs in sex assault-related claims, largely under New York’s Adult Survivors Act; On behalf of Drew, Kenya has filed ASA-related claims against LA Reid and has sued Russell Simmons for defamation after an interview in which he said he had never sexually assaulted anyone
• Representing a major U.S. based corporation providing Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act (UFLPA) compliance advice
• Negotiating a plea deal that resulted in a two-month sentence, which was several months below the sentencing guidelines minimum, for client charged with insider trading by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia

Co-author, Department of Justice Attempts to Eliminate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Private Sector and Schools (February 2025)

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)