Marnix Somsen

Practice Areas

Financial Markets & Regulation and Regulatory & Criminal Enforcement

Career

Marnix Somsen specialises in regulatory and criminal enforcement. He represents corporations and financial institutions subject to investigation and enforcement proceedings. His experience spans both the US, Europe, Africa and Asia. Recent work includes representing publicly listed companies in enforcement actions brought by the SEC, the FED, OFAC, BIS, the DoJ, the CFTC, the FCA, the SFO, BaFin, the AMF, the HKMA, the MAS, the JFSA, DNB, the OM and the AFM on a variety of regulatory and criminal charges.

Experience

Marnix typically handles cross-border enforcement matters and internal investigations for EU companies involving one or more US or other foreign regulators, drawing upon the resources of our international Best Friends network. Over the past few years, issues have included:

Libor and other financial benchmarks

FCPA and UKBA

other anti-bribery statutes

international sanction programs (UN, US, EU, Worldbank)

export controls

anti-money laundering

insider trading

market & price manipulation

banking & securities fraud

regulatory compliance failures

Personal

- Marnix is currently the co-chair of the IBA Anti-Corruption Committee for the Netherlands

- Formerly an editor in chief of Tijdschrift voor Sanctierecht & Compliance, the Dutch enforcement & compliance law review, Marnix now serves on its Board of Advisors

- Marnix has recently co-edited Onderneming en Sanctierecht, a Nijmegen University textbook on regulatory and criminal enforcement