Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

A multidisciplinary team with a nationwide footprint and a global client base, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton‘s financial disputes practice boasts experience in white-collar criminal and regulatory investigations, banking antitrust litigation, and international arbitration proceedings across a range of forums. Particularly strong in representing systemically important global banking institutions, the group has established relationships as defense counsel for Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas, and acts for banks in novel anti-terrorism sanctions cases and post-liquidation disputes. The firm also has an increasing presence in litigation in the cryptocurrency, private equity, and asset trading spaces. In the New York office, Lev Dassin has a track record in both long-term complex pieces of financial litigation and on SEC enforcement orders, Joon Kim counsels executives and boards of directors on regulatory investigations, and Rishi Zutshi is strong in the antirust litigation space. In Washington DC, the leading names are regulatory enforcement specialists Robin Bergen and Nowell Bamberger, and from the Bay Area Jennifer Kennedy Park has a litigation and financial crime practice.