Stephanie Brooker

Stephanie Brooker is Co-Chair of the firm’s White Collar Defense and Investigations, Financial Institutions, and the Anti-Money Laundering Practice Groups. She focuses on internal investigations, regulatory enforcement defense, white-collar criminal defense, and compliance counseling. She handles a wide range of white collar matters, including representing financial institutions, multi-national companies, and individuals in connection with criminal, regulatory, and civil enforcement actions involving sanctions; anti-corruption; anti-money laundering (AML)/Bank Secrecy Act (BSA); securities, tax, and wire fraud, foreign influence; “me-too;” cryptocurrency; and other legal issues. She routinely handles complex cross-border investigations. Her practice also includes BSA/AML and FCPA compliance counseling and deal due diligence and significant criminal and civil asset forfeiture matters. Her investigations matters involve multiple government agencies, including DOJ, SEC, FRB, OCC, FDIC, OFAC, FINRA, New York Department of Financial Services, state banking agencies and gaming regulators, and foreign regulators.

Former federal prosecutor; Former Chief of the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. Former Director of the Enforcement Division at the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).