Compliance lawyers

Brad Copeland

Associate - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Brad Robertson

Partner

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Brady Gordon

Brady is a disputes and international trade lawyer serving Canada’s leading businesses. Brady represents clients before the Canadian International Trade Tribunal, the Federal Court of Canada, the ICC International Court of Arbitration, federal ministries and departments, and all levels of court in British Columbia. His practice focuses on cross-border disputes, commercial arbitration, cross-border regulatory controversy, customs and import/export compliance, trade remedies, sanctions, public and administrative law, and complex international trade and investment treaty issues. Brady has a PhD and LL.M in International Business Law from Trinity College, the University of Dublin, and is a former Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of The Constitutional Boundaries of European Fiscal Federalism (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and has written on international topics for leading publications in his field, including the European Law Review and the European Investment Law and Arbitration Review. Brady currently sits on the Executive of the Canadian Bar Association International Law Section, and the Export Committee of the Canadian Association of Importers and Exporters. He is also an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Bram Nijhof

Bram heads our Competition, EU and Trade team in the Netherlands and is a member of our European competition law team that operates from our Brussels office. Known for getting to the heart of matters quickly, Bram advises and litigates on all aspects of competition law, public procurement and state aid. He is also one of few Dutch experts on the competition law components of standard essential patents and FRAND. Expertise Information technology Competition, EU & trade Environmental, social & governance (ESG) Compliance Tech Litigation

Winston Taylor

Brandon K. Essig

Partner

Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC

Brandon Van Grack

Brandon Van Grack - National Security Lawyer | Morrison Foerster Brandon L. Van Grack co-chairs Morrison Foerster’s National Security and Crisis Management groups. His practice focuses on investigations, criminal defense, and compliance matters involving export controls and sanctions, foreign investment, and cyber incidents. Brandon’s arrival to the firm follows more than a decade of service at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), where he held multiple senior positions. In those positions, he helped manage the U.S. government’s tools to address perceived national security threats in China and Russia, oversaw every criminal investigation involving sanctions and export controls, and was Chief of DOJ’s Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) Unit. Brandon’s leadership and breadth of national security experience offers clients in the financial services, technology, artificial intelligence, defense, media, and communications sectors unmatched insider enforcement perspective across the entire national security landscape, including sanctions, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), export control, cybersecurity matters, and FARA.

Morrison Foerster

Brendan Newitt

Senior associate

De Roos & Pen

Brett Souza

Partner - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Brian Benjet

Partner; Co-Chair Global Compliance

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Brian Kidd

Brian Kidd is a partner in Sher Tremonte’s Washington, D.C. office. Brian’s practice focuses on solving clients’ most difficult legal and regulatory challenges, often in the context of civil and criminal investigations and litigations. Brian has represented public and private companies and their executives in complex government-facing probes, resulting in favorable resolutions and declinations. He also advises boards of directors and companies in connection with complex internal investigations and compliance reviews. Brian regularly counsels his clients through sensitive matters, corporate crises, litigation, and other disputes involving U.S. federal and state law enforcement and regulatory agencies including the Department of Justice (DOJ), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Department of Education, District Attorney’s Offices, and state attorneys general, among others. Brian has first chaired over a dozen federal trials and is a member of the New York and Washington, D.C., bars. Before joining Sher Tremonte, Brian was a partner at a top-rated international law firm and served as the Chief of the Market Integrity and Major Frauds Unit of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section at DOJ. As Chief, Brian supervised a team of roughly 40 federal prosecutors and oversaw major fraud cases brought by the DOJ during his tenure, with a special focus on investigating and prosecuting complex securities, commodities, cryptocurrency, and other major corporate fraud cases. Brian also served as chair of DOJ’s Securities and Commodities Fraud Working Group, where he worked closely with senior leaders at the SEC, CFTC, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Federal Reserve. Brian is a regular speaker on DOJ, SEC, and CFTC enforcement trends, cross-boarder investigations, cryptocurrency fraud, COVID-19 relief fraud, and compliance guidelines issued by U.S. regulators and law enforcement agencies. Brian earned his J.D. magna cum laude from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review, and his B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Brian is a three-time recipient of the Assistant Attorney General’s Exceptional Service Award. Brian has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Puerto Rico School of Law.

Sher Tremonte

Brian McDonnell

Brian is a founder partner of McDonnell Ellis LLP, the UK's only specialist financial services law firm, working with a range of financial services firms and law firms without sufficient FS regulatory expertise.

McDonnell Ellis LLP

Brian Minutti

Founding Partner

International Disruption

Brian Muchiri

Brian Muchiri is a Partner in our Banking, Finance & Projects practice. Brian has worked and gained experience in the fields of finance and banking, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, telecommunications and has extensive experience in due diligence and corporate compliance evaluation.

Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr incorporating Kieti Law LLP

Brigham Cannon

Brigham represents corporate and individual clients in white collar and regulatory defense matters, including involving the FCPA, securities laws and the False Claims Act. Brigham frequently represents his clients before the Department of Justice, the SEC, state Attorneys General and other regulatory agencies. He also regularly leads internal investigations, advises companies on the effectiveness of their compliance programs, and assists companies who are facing investigations by enforcement agencies outside the United States.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Brigid Bondoc

Brigid DeCoursey Bondoc | Morrison Foerster Brigid is a food, drug, and medical device lawyer who counsels life sciences companies on a wide range of U.S. Food & Drug Administration pre- and post-market regulatory issues. As the lead of our FDA + Healthcare Regulatory and Compliance Group, Brigid practices across the spectrum of FDA-regulated products, including medical devices, drugs, biologics, cell and gene therapies, food, cosmetics, dietary supplements, tobacco, laboratory-developed tests, in vitro diagnostics, radiation-emitting electronic products, combination products, and products that may not fit neatly into any of these categories. Accordingly, she counsels established and start-up companies in life sciences, healthcare, and consumer products on a wide range of FDA pre- and post-market regulatory issues. Brigid also frequently advises innovative product developers on threshold FDA jurisdictional questions and develops strategies for approval and marketing, while identifying and mitigating regulatory risks.

Morrison Foerster

Bruno Cação Ribeiro

Senior Associate

FAS Advogados, in cooperation with CMS

Bruno Drago

Partner

Demarest Advogados

Bryan Sillaman

A partner in the Proskauer's International Investigations and Compliance practice, Bryan has over 20 years of experience advising clients on a variety of governance and compliance matters. His practice focuses on advising multinational organizations on a host of compliance and regulatory issues, with particular focus on complying with international anti-corruption laws. His expertise includes assisting clients in developing and enhancing fit-for-purpose policies and procedures, conducting extensive due diligence in the context of mergers and acquisitions and involving various third parties and joint venture partners, leading complex internal investigations, and performing proactive internal reviews and audits of global operations. Bryan also assists clients with the intricacies of cross-border governmental investigations, prosecutions and monitorships. Bryan's work has spanned numerous global jurisdictions, including Angola, Brazil, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mozambique, the Middle East, Nigeria, Russia, Uganda, and Venezuela. In addition to his anti-corruption experience, Bryan advises clients and publishes and speaks regularly on broader ESG-related topics affecting multinational enterprises. Prior to entering private practice, Bryan was an attorney in the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement, where he earned a Division Director Award.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Bulut Girgin

Partner

Gen Temizer Erdogan Girgin Attorney Partnership

Bumkyu Sung

Kim & Chang

Burcu Tuzcu Ersin

Burcu is a trusted advisor to Turkish conglomerates, multinational corporations and international investors on high‑stakes compliance, internal investigations, regulatory matters and strategic M&A and transactions. She combines the breadth of a corporate and M&A lawyer with the depth of a financial crime, technology and compliance specialist, built over years of advising on complex cross‑border business and capital markets matters. Burcu is widely recognised for anticipating strategic and enforcement risk early and for designing pragmatic mitigation strategies that integrate seamlessly with business objectives, deal dynamics and crisis situations. Her practice spans anti‑corruption and bribery, fraud and corporate crime, AML/CFT, sanctions and export controls, as well as corporate governance, data privacy and cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, employee misconduct and board‑level investigations. She regularly leads deal‑driven risk assessments, due diligence and remediation planning on domestic and cross‑border M&A, joint ventures and strategic investments, particularly in regulated and technology‑driven sectors. Burcu is consistently ranked by leading directories, including recognition by The Legal 500 as a Leading Individual in Compliance, Corporate/Commercial and M&A and IT & Telecoms in Türkiye, and by Lexology for investigations and data work

STG Partners

Caitlin Crujido

Caitlin A. Crujido | Morrison Foerster Caitlin Crujido is an associate in the Government Contracts practice in Morrison Foerster’s Washington, D.C. office. Caitlin represents government contractors in a full range of contract matters, including bid protests, contract claims and disputes, mergers and acquisitions, and internal and external investigations. In her litigation practice, Caitlin is often involved with the full life cycle of claims, from preparing requests for equitable adjustment to litigating claims disputes at the Boards of Contract Appeals and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (COFC). She also regularly represents clients in pre- and post-award bid protests before procuring agencies, the U.S. Government Accountability Office, and COFC. In addition, Caitlin has worked on a number of False Claims Act (FCA) investigations and qui tam actions. In her transactional practice, Caitlin’s experience includes advising on mergers and acquisitions involving both the purchase and sale of government contracting concerns or related assets. Beyond performing due diligence, negotiating purchase agreements, and assisting with post-transaction related filings, Caitlin takes a holistic view to these transactions, working with clients to navigate various strategic and legal considerations. Her practice also includes counseling clients on various compliance and regulatory issues, particularly in the areas of contract and subcontract management.

Morrison Foerster

Caitlyn Campbell

Caitlyn M. Campbell, a former US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) Enforcement Attorney, focuses her practice on representing clients in SEC investigations, securities class action and derivative litigation and compliance matters. Caitlyn has extensive experience in matters involving potential violations of the federal securities laws, including allegations of accounting and disclosure violations, fraud and regulatory violations by investment advisers and broker-dealers, insider trading, anti-corruption and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations and whistleblower claims. She also assists companies in developing training programs and compliance policies and procedures. Prior to joining McDermott, Caitlyn spent eight years at the SEC, most recently as Senior Counsel to the Directors of Enforcement, assisting with the management of the Commission’s largest division, and as a member of the division’s COVID-19 Steering Committee. At the SEC, Caitlyn led all aspects of investigations involving accounting fraud, complex insider trading schemes, market abuse, market manipulation, misappropriation of investor funds, investment adviser fraud and the Immigrant Investor Program. She also worked extensively with foreign regulators, coordinating complex, global investigations. In addition to her investigative work, Caitlyn co-chaired the committee tasked with proactively detecting accounting and disclosure fraud in the New England region and served as the liaison to the national Financial Reporting and Audit Group and the Boston FBI. Caitlyn has conducted numerous internal investigations, including investigations for major public companies, their boards of directors and board committees. Further, she has represented Boards, senior management teams, hedge funds and private equity firms in connection with matters before enforcement and regulatory agencies including the SEC, US Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). She has also represented numerous corporations, as well as directors and officers, in securities class action and shareholder derivative litigation. More recently, Caitlyn has represented companies and officers in connection with Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC)-related litigation and SEC investigations, and works diligently to track developments in this area of the law. Caitlyn regularly speaks on topics relating to criminal and regulatory enforcement, as well as accounting fraud. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/campbell-caitlyn-m/

McDermott Will & Schulte

Caja Griesenbach

Caja advises on a broad range of UK and European competition law matters, including antitrust investigations, private enforcement actions, merger control, and behavioural compliance issues. She has significant experience representing clients across a range of sectors (including FMCG, grocery, travel technology, publishing, defence and the automotive industry) before UK and European regulators and courts. Caja advises clients in connection with both contentious and non-contentious competition matters, including regulatory investigations concerning alleged anti-competitive agreements or abuses of dominance, obtaining merger control clearances, and defending private claims for damages in connection with alleged antitrust infringements. In addition, Caja provides competition law compliance advice and training. Caja has previously been seconded to online travel agent Expedia and to the Mergers unit of the UK Competition and Markets Authority.

Macfarlanes LLP