Webdiffusions | January 22, 2025
We discuss the regulatory landscape and American application for cryptographic and digital assets, in particular:
- What we can expect from the DOJ, the dry, the CFTC, the Fincen and the regulators of the States;
- Recent criminal and civil repressive measures against individuals and entities (and why they are always important); And
- Other changes that can result from the cryptography policy of the new administration.
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Panelists:
Stéphanie L. BrookerAssociate of the Gibson Dunn office in Washington DC, is co -chair of firm practice groups on defense and white collar surveys, the fight against money laundering and financial institutions. During her 25 years of legal practice, Stephanie has always been recognized as a leading practitioner in the fields of compliance and the application of the law in the fight against money laundering and defense criminal in white collar. Before joining the cabinet, Stephanie was provided to the United States Ministry of Justice. As a prosecutor of the Ministry of Justice, Stephanie was head of the active confiscation section and money laundering in the American prosecutor’s office in Columbia, investigated a wide range of criminal cases In white collar and other federal criminal cases, judged 32 criminal trials and informed and made criminal calls. Stephanie was also director of the law enforcement division and chief of staff to the financial crime (Fincen) network of the US Treasury Department, the main American regulatory and application of the anti- monetary. Stephanie is admitted to exercising in the District of Columbia.
Jeffrey L. Steiner is associated with the Gibson Dunn office in Washington, DC, where he is president of the practice group on derivative products from the firm and co -president of the practice group on the firm’s financial regulation. Jeffrey is also co -chair of the Fintech practice group and digital assets of the firm and member of the practice groups financial, energy and public policies of the firm. Jeffrey advises a wide range of customers, in particular commercial commercial users, financial institutions, brokers, hedge funds, investment capital funds, compensation chambers, industrial groups and professional associations on regulatory, legislative issues , application and transactional linked to OTC and listed derivatives, raw materials and titles. Jeffrey also advises a wide range of customers on issues related to digital assets, cryptocurrencies and distributed registers technology, in particular by analyzing and advising on regulatory and application issues related to their application and their use. He works regularly with customers on the structuring of products involving the use of digital assets and the application of blockchain technology, including the issue of digital tokens and cryptocurrency trading. He also analyzes the cross -border impacts linked to the use by customers of digital currencies and blockchain technology. Jeffrey is admitted to exercise in the District of Columbia and Maryland.
Sara K. Weeds is associated with the Gibson Dunn office in Washington, DC and co -president of the Fintech practice group and digital active ingredients. Sara’s practice in financial technology covers both regulatory and transactional advice for a wide range of customers, including traditional financial institutions, non -banking financial services and technology companies. Sara’s exceptional achievements in private practice have been recognized by various organizations. More recently, Sara has been recognized as a leading lawyer in the 2025 edition of Rooms and partners Fintech in the United States category: Nationwide-Fintech Legal: Payments and loans, customers describing it as “a lawyer very in a commercial spirit with in-depth expertise and experience in the management of questions and regulatory relations in the Fintech space ”.
Before working in private practice, Sara has held various positions in the financial services sector, in particular as an internal legal advisor to the IBM financial services group and political advisor to a national research organization on financial services . She was also Director and Legal Advisor of the Board of the Banque Commissioner of North Carolina, where she supervised the supervision of non -banking mortgage lenders and brokers, monetary service companies and consumer credit companies. Sara is authorized to exercise in the District of Columbia, in Georgia and in North Carolina.
Osman Nawaz is associated with the Gibson Dunn office in New York and member of the Practice Groups Save and White Collar Defense and Investigations of the Cabinet. He advises customers on internal and government surveys and measures, as well as monitoring civil disputes and regulations and compliance issues.
Before joining Gibson Dunn, OS concluded a 14-year career in Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) of the United States. During his mandate at the SEC, he worked at the agency’s New York office, in several administrations and in roles from lawyer to assistant regional director. More recently, he was a senior manager within the agency’s law application and to the national management where he directed the unity of complex financial instruments of the application of the law, a specialized group focused on complex products and transactions involving the structuring, sale, negotiation and evaluation of derivative products by sophisticated market players. , titles backed by assets and other instruments. OS supervised large -scale surveys and disputes and professional staff distributed in seven different offices, including agency headquarters in Washington, DC. He is admitted to exercise in New York and Colorado states.
Sam Raymond, Experienced investigator and pleading lawyer, he is of counsel at the Gibson Dunn office in New York and member of defense and investigation groups in white collar, litigation, fight against money laundering, financial technology and digital and national security assets. As a former federal prosecutor, SAM has a vast experience in the application of government laws and surveys, with a particular emphasis on surveys and advice linked to the fight against money laundering, to the law on banking secrecy and sanctions.
Before joining Gibson Dunn, Sam was deputy prosecutor of the United States in the American prosecutor’s office for the South New York district from 2017 to 2024. In this role, Sam judged several cases to obtain a verdict and continued A wide range of federal criminal violations. He was a member of the team who continued the leaders of FTX and Alameda Research, in particular as a member of the trial team in the United States C. Bankman-Fried, and was the main prosecutor in the FTX case on issues related to the seizure and confiscation of assets. . Sam was also a member of the DoJ team who brought criminal charges against Hamas senior leaders for their role in planning, supporting and perpetting terrorist attacks on October 7 against Israel. He was one of the main prosecutors in one of the first inculvating cases of individuals of violations of the law on banking secrecy, as part of a revolutionary prosecution for leaders of an cryptocurrency exchange. Sam is admitted to exercise in New York state and before the United States district courts for the South and East districts of New York and the United States Court of Appeal for the second circuit.
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