On February 27 in New York, Sharon Cohen Levin spoke at a SIFMA C&L Future Leaders Forum on “A Budding Industry: The Compliance, Legal, and Political Landscape of Cannabis and Hemp in 2020”. The forum included an overview of legal and compliance issues facing the cannabis and hemp industry; practical advice and tips based on real-world examples; and discussion of global issues and the political and legislative future of the industry. Future Leaders Forums are hosted by the SIFMA C&L Society Future Leaders Committee to discuss topics that matter on the horizon.
Learn more about the panelist Sharon Cohen Levin is a partner in Sullivan & Cromwell’s Litigation Group and member of the firm’s Criminal Defense and Investigations Group. Her practice focuses on money laundering and asset forfeiture advice for a diverse group of corporate clients. For nearly two decades prior to entering private practice, Ms. Levin led the Money Laundering and Asset Forfeiture Unit in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Under her leadership, the SDNY was responsible for nearly 60% of all forfeitures in the United States. Her track record of success inspired
Forbes to call her “The Babe Ruth of Forfeiture.” She also led multiple significant prosecutions, working hand in hand with federal banking regulators, the Office of Foreign Asset Control, and other regulatory authorities.
Learn more about the practice S&C’s Criminal Defense and Investigations Group S&C’s Criminal Defense and Investigations Group (CDIG) advises clients internationally on high-stakes issues related to white-collar criminal defense, regulatory compliance and internal investigations. The Firm has represented global institutions in virtually every major U.S. enforcement initiative.
S&C’s Economic Sanctions and Financial Crime Group S&C's Economic Sanctions and Financial Crime Group is a specialized interdisciplinary team of attorneys whose professional practice ranges from supervision and regulation to investigations and litigation, mergers and acquisitions and Congressional investigations. The firm has provided counsel in nearly every high-profile AML and economic sanctions-related regulatory enforcement action and law enforcement action involving a financial institution in the last decade, making it a preeminent presence in the areas of AML and economic sanctions enforcement and compliance.