Represented a Canadian national and former Gunvor employee charged in the Eastern District of New York with conspiring to launder proceeds of a roughly $22 million bribery scheme involving Ecuador's state oil company, PetroEcuador. Gunvor S.A., the Swiss energy trading company, separately pleaded guilty in March 2024 to conspiracy to violate the FCPA and paid a $374.56 million criminal fine as part of a $474.4 million global resolution, admitting it paid intermediaries more than $97 million between 2012 and 2020 to bribe PetroEcuador officials to obtain and retain oil-trading business. Covered by Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, and international press.
Latin America (Regional)
Energy & Natural Resources
Representative Matter
Framed by the government as one of the largest unlicensed money-remittance cases in U.S. history
Represents a client charged in the Southern District of Florida with money laundering arising from allegations of unlicensed money remitting. The case involves over $350 million and has been described by the government as one of the largest of its kind. The client is in Argentina awaiting extradition proceedings.
Argentina
Cross-border
Government & Public Sector
Representative Matter
USAO and OFAC sanctions investigation
Represents a client under investigation by both the U.S. Attorney's Office and the Office of Foreign Assets Control for alleged violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and money laundering, involving cross-border exposure to Russia.
