Kiran Bhat is a Counsel at Keller Postman LLC. To serve our clients, Kiran applies his varied experiences advising plaintiffs and defendants in weighty civil matters and leading federal government teams in complex criminal prosecutions across the investigative, trial, and appellate phases.

At Keller Postman, Kiran represents consumers and employees in arbitrations and in trial and appellate courts as part of the firm’s mass arbitration practice. He also works on the firm’s antitrust and consumer protection cases against big technology companies.

Before joining Keller Postman, Kiran was a federal prosecutor in Miami, Florida. In that role, he tried multiple cases to guilty verdict and handled hundreds of criminal investigations and prosecutions spanning novel cybercrime, complex frauds, violent crimes, and firearms and narcotics offenses. Teams that Kiran led disrupted the activities of one of the world’s largest ransomware syndicates; broke up a $100 million Ponzi scheme; took down a massive credit card fraud factory run from inside a home; and won several convictions against people who stole millions of dollars from the government’s emergency pandemic relief programs. Kiran also served as a liaison to his court’s innovative reentry program for returning citizens and successfully handled several matters before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.

Earlier in his career, Kiran represented both plaintiffs and defendants in fraud, whistleblower, and securities litigation and obtained favorable settlements and dismissals of pleadings. He also counseled clients facing internal investigations, government enforcement actions, and criminal prosecutions. Before that, Kiran worked at a large international law firm, where he advised corporations on antitrust issues related to mergers and acquisitions and defended clients against allegations of anticompetitive conduct.

Kiran was a law clerk to the Honorable Kathleen M. Williams of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He graduated from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was a regular contributor to SCOTUSblog. He graduated magna cum laude with a degree in government from Harvard College and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Kiran is barred in California, Florida, Maryland, and the District of Columbia only.

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"I’ve been on both sides of all different types of litigation in my career. Nothing has given me more satisfaction than building tough cases and taking them to court, fighting the good fight for everyday people who have been wronged. That’s what I loved most about public service and is why I’m a plaintiffs’ lawyer."

Kiran Bhat

Education & Clerkships

  • J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
  • A.B., Harvard College
  • Clerkship: U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

Previous Affiliations

  • United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida
  • Stumphauzer Kolaya Nadler & Sloman, PLLC
  • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP