Contract Attorney
Current• Represented major global bank in defending Federal Reserve Board, New York State Banking Department, Treasury Department and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) probes into alleged violations of Anti-Money Laundering (AML), U.S. sanctions and Embargos; investigated and reviewed Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR), Confidential Supervisory Information (CSI) and SWIFT Fund transfers transactions in alleged violations of Anti-Money Laundering, U.S. sanctions and embargos, reviewed, redacted and logged Attorney-Client/Work Product, Joint Defense/Common Interest critical documents;• Merger & Antitrust representing large companies in the area of energy, telecommunications, financial index services, Pharmaceuticals, involving Discovery, deposition prep, and trial and e-Discovery. Department of Justice (DOJ) Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) 4(c), 4(d), Second Requests; Federal Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Investigations. DOJ and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Investigations. DOJ and FTC Civil Investigative Demands (CID). Security Exchange Commission (SEC) Investigations and CIDs. Due Diligence and Compliance Review. Grand Jury Subpoena. First, Second Review, Quality Control Team. Privilege Review Team. Privilege logging Team. • Litigation before Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) representing large energy company against Midwest Transmission Independent System Operator (“MISO”); Discovery, deposition and trial preparation; privilege review & log;• Litigation before the Commodity Future Trading Commission (CFTC)• European Commission (EC) Investigations of Anti-Competitive behavior in the European Union (EU) market. Represented US-based European companies seeking leniency of fines.• Privilege Review. Redactions. Privilege log. Privilege Quality Control (QC). Utilized available Privilege theories to protect the Client from disclosing privileged documents, including Attorney-Client, Work Product, Joint Defense and Common Interest;