S&C litigation partner Nicky Friedlander will participate at the upcoming PLI conference, “Doing Business in and with Emerging Markets 2020,” to be held virtually via Zoom on Monday, June 1. Nicky will speak at 1:45 p.m. ET on the panel, “FCPA, Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering.” Topics will include corruption challenges for multinational companies in emerging markets, compliance issues in M&A transactions, developments in anti-corruption regulations and enforcement, and working with government agencies.
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S&C’s FCPA and Anti-Corruption Practice Sullivan & Cromwell is a leader in advising clients around the world on issues arising under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practice Act (FCPA) and related international laws. S&C's team includes former Assistant United States Attorneys and other lawyers with extensive experience in FCPA and related matters.
Nicky Friedlander Nicole Friedlander is a member of the Firm’s Criminal Defense and Investigations Group and co-head of the Firm’s Cybersecurity Practice. Ms. Friedlander’s practice focuses on white-collar criminal defense, regulatory enforcement proceedings and internal investigations. She has particular expertise in fraud, anti-money laundering, FCPA and cybercrime matters.
Ms. Friedlander joined the Firm in 2016 from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where she was Chief of the Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit. During more than eight years of service, she prosecuted sophisticated financial frauds, money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act offenses, FCPA violations, cybercrimes, and criminal tax cases. Ms. Friedlander’s white collar work includes leading major prosecutions of offshore banks for facilitating tax evasion, securing one of the largest-ever FCPA resolutions and bringing a groundbreaking racketeering case against the owner of multibillion-dollar payday lending companies. Her cybersecurity experience includes leading the successful investigation of the largest-ever cyber theft of customer data from a U.S. financial institution; overseeing the indictment of Iranian state-sponsored hackers for coordinating cyberattacks on 46 financial institutions; leading cutting edge virtual currency-related cases; and prosecuting a Russian national for hacking U.S. banks in a case the FBI named one of its top ten of the year. For its consumer protection work during her tenure, the FTC awarded the Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit its Criminal Liaison Unit Award in 2016.
During her tenure at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Ms. Friedlander also successfully tried numerous federal criminal cases and briefed and argued appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.