Zachary Goldman

Financial Services; National Security; General Practice; Digital Assets; Economic Sanctions & Financial Crime

Zachary Goldman is a partner in Sullivan & Cromwell’s Financial Services Group and National Security Practice, resident in the New York office. He has extensive experience advising clients in the financial services, digital assets and technology industries, among others, on complex regulatory and enforcement issues related to OFAC sanctions, Bank Secrecy Act/anti-money laundering (BSA/AML), the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), digital asset regulations and national security law. In addition to his experience working with banks, broker/dealers and investment managers, he has significant expertise in the AML, sanctions and financial crime risk management considerations with respect to non-bank payments and digital asset companies.

Zachary provides day-to-day compliance counseling, assists with risk assessments and the design of compliance programs, and provides advice regarding voluntary-self disclosures to OFAC and other agencies. He also conducts internal investigations and assists clients in responding to subpoenas and other information requests from U.S. government agencies including OFAC, FinCEN, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York State Department of Financial Services, the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, committees of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate and numerous other federal and state regulatory bodies.

The art market is also an important area of focus for Zachary, where he counsels art galleries and trade associations on matters related to AML and sanctions laws. His work often has a significant cross-border dimension, and he has counseled clients through complex regulatory and enforcement matters involving the governments of the U.K., Switzerland, the Netherlands, China and elsewhere.

Zachary has testified on sanctions matters before the U.S. Congress and Canadian Parliament, and has provided commentary to numerous media publications on issues related to sanctions, national security, intelligence and counterterrorism. Before joining S&C, he was an adjunct professor of law at NYU School of Law, where he led the Center on Law and Security, co-founded the Center for Cybersecurity and taught a number of classes on national security law. He has published articles in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs and others, and published a leading text on the law of intelligence with Oxford University Press.

New York University School of Law, J.D., 2009

The London School of Economics and Political Science, M.S., 2006

Harvard University, A.B., 2005