Alexander Willscher

Practice Areas

White-collar and securities matters, including accounting fraud, market manipulation, insider trading, FCPA violations, bank and lending fraud, asset forfeiture, violations of economic sanctions, and international money laundering offenses

Career

Alex Willscher is the Deputy Managing Partner of S&C’s Criminal Defense & Investigations Group. A distinguished former prosecutor with two decades of experience, he has advised the world’s biggest financial institutions in navigating high-stakes regulatory investigations. He represents companies and individuals under investigation by the DOJ, SEC, CFTC, the U.S. Treasury, NYDFS, and other state, local and non-U.S. prosecutors’ offices. Alex represented Barclays in a DOJ investigation into allegations that the bank profited from illegal foreign exchange front-running activity by one of its traders. The DOJ ended its investigation, declining to pursue criminal charges. In a major policy shift, this matter marked the first time that the DOJ had been willing to extend its declination program for companies outside of the FCPA context.

Alex served as a law clerk to the Honorable Anthony M. Kennedy, United States Supreme Court (2001-2002) and to the Honorable J. Harvie Wilkinson III, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (2000-2001).

Professional Memberships

Criminal Justice Act Panel, SDNY; The Federal Bar Council; The Supreme Court Historical Society.

Personal

University of Chicago Law (J.D., 2000); Dartmouth (A.B., 1996)