Stephanie Wheeler is a partner in the Firm’s Litigation Group. Her multidisciplinary practice focuses on crisis management, working at the intersection of white-collar and regulatory investigations and related complex commercial litigation. Ms. Wheeler has decades of experience advising some of the world’s largest financial institutions on their highest stakes matters from the 2008 financial crisis to the recent cryptocurrency market collapse. She has defended prominent companies, such as Allianz, Goldman Sachs and FTX in government investigations and related litigation. Ms. Wheeler’s clients rely on her to guide them through every aspect of a crisis and to manage multiple work streams seamlessly.
Ms. Wheeler has extensive experience obtaining global settlements in white-collar and regulatory investigations involving a range of regulators, including the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Reserve, the New York Department of Financial Services, FINRA, the state attorneys general, the Department of Labor, and non-U.S. authorities and regulators. She also handles the civil litigation arising out of those investigations, including securities, commodities, bankruptcy and ERISA litigation.
As a partner in charge of the Firm’s professional development for litigation associates, Ms. Wheeler has devoted almost two decades to developing new, innovative training programs for associates to provide them opportunities to hone their deposition, oral argument and trial skills, among others.
She is a member of the Federal Bar Council and the Women’s White Collar Defense Association.
