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Keric Chin is counsel in King & Spalding’s Special Matters and Government Investigations practice and a member of the Government Contracts team. Keric has decades of experience assisting clients in all facets of their business transactions with the federal government, and has represented clients in a wide variety of industries including aerospace, clean technologies, construction, defense, financial services, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and information technology.
Keric is trusted and relied upon by Fortune 500 companies and small/medium business enterprises for government contracts compliance, counseling, litigation, bid protests, claims development, and internal investigations. He also assists clients with domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, and related business transactions involving government contracts and contractors. In addition, Keric has worked with the International Trade Centre and the United Nations, where he served as an expert consultant to the Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment, and produced several publications on the use of public and corporate procurement to empower women-owned businesses.
Before entering private practice in 2007, Keric served in the United States Air Force for more than 20 years, retiring in the grade of lieutenant colonel. While in the Air Force, Keric served as a government contracts trial attorney, aviation and admiralty law attorney, prosecutor, defense counsel, and legal advisor at the headquarters Air Force level on administrative and fiscal law matters and senior official investigations.
Keric is a distinguished graduate from the United States Air Force Academy. He earned his JD from the University of Texas at Austin, where he graduated with honors and was admitted to the Order of the Coif. Mr. Chin also holds an LLM (with a government contracts law specialization) from the US Army Judge Advocate General’s School, where he was the distinguished graduate for his class. He earned an MA in sociology from the University of Hawai`i while on an East-West Center Scholarship.
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