Margot Laporte

Compliance and Monitorships, European Services, Financial and Regulatory Litigation, Financial Services, Greater China and Southeast Asia, Latin America

A partner in the Litigation Department, Margot Laporte counsels global clients confronting complex multijurisdictional regulatory, litigation, and reputational risk arising from enforcement matters.

Margot focuses her practice on cross-border internal and regulatory investigations, white-collar criminal defense, securities enforcement matters, and regulatory compliance, including with respect to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), anti-money-laundering regulations, economic sanctions laws, insider trading, and accounting fraud. She has conducted investigations on behalf of clients in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Russia.

Margot has extensive experience representing global public companies, boards of directors, audit committees, financial institutions, financial services firms, and senior officers in enforcement matters before numerous domestic and international regulators, including the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), as well as the French Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) and other international regulators.

Margot was recognized by Latinvex as one of the top 100 women lawyers specializing in Latin America in the FCPA & Fraud category.

Dartmouth College

A.B.

Duke University School of Law

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