International Comparative Legal Guide – Anti-Money Laundering 2025
Client Alert | May 22, 2025
Gibson Dunn announces release of the International Comparative Legal Guide – Anti- Money Laundering 2025
Gibson Dunn is pleased to announce with Global Legal Group the release of the International Comparative Legal Guide – Anti-Money Laundering 2025. Gibson Dunn partners Stephanie L. Brooker and M. Kendall Day are the Contributing Editors of the publication, which covers issues including criminal enforcement, regulatory and administrative enforcement, and requirements for financial institutions and other designated businesses. The Guide, comprised of 4 expert analysis chapters and 15 jurisdictions, is live and FREE to access HERE.
Ms. Brooker, Mr. Day, and of counsel Ella Capone and Sam Raymond jointly authored “Anti-Money Laundering Laws and Regulations Top Developments in Anti-Money Laundering Enforcement in 2024.”
In addition, Ms. Brooker, Mr. Day, Ms. Capone, and Mr. Raymond co-authored the jurisdiction chapter on “USA: Anti-Money Laundering 2025.”
You can view these informative and comprehensive chapters via the links below:
CLICK HERE to view Anti-Money Laundering Laws and Regulations Top Developments in Anti-Money Laundering Enforcement in 2024
CLICK HERE to view Anti-Money Laundering Laws and Regulations USA 2025
Gibson Dunn has deep experience with enforcement defense and compliance issues regarding the Bank Secrecy Act, AML laws, and sanctions laws and regulations.
About the Authors:
Stephanie Brooker, a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn, is Co-Chair of the firm’s Global White Collar Defense and Investigations, Anti-Money Laundering, and Financial Institutions Practice Groups. Stephanie served as a prosecutor at DOJ, including serving as Chief of the Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, investigating a broad range of white-collar and other federal criminal matters, and trying 32 criminal trials. She also served as the Director of the Enforcement Division and Chief of Staff at FinCEN, the lead U.S. anti-money laundering regulator and enforcement agency. Stephanie has been consistently recognized by Chambers USA for enforcement defense and BSA/AML compliance as an “excellent attorney,” who clients rely on for “important and complex” matters, and for providing “excellent service and terrific lawyering.” She has also been named a National Law Journal White Collar Trailblazer and a Global Investigations Review Top 100 Women in Investigations.
Kendall Day is a nationally recognized white-collar partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn, where he is Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Global Fintech and Digital Assets Practice Group, Co-Chair of the firm’s Financial Institutions Practice Group, co-leads the firm’s Anti-Money Laundering practice, and is a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations and Crisis Management Practice Groups. Kendall is recognized as a leading White Collar Attorney in the District of Columbia by Chambers USA – America’s Leading Business Lawyers. Most recently, Kendall was recognized in Best Lawyers 2024 for white-collar criminal defense. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Kendall had a distinguished 15-year career as a white-collar prosecutor with DOJ, rising to the highest career position in DOJ’s Criminal Division as an Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General (“DAAG”). As a DAAG, Kendall had responsibility for approximately 200 prosecutors and other professionals. Kendall also previously served as Chief and Principal Deputy Chief of the Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section. In these various leadership positions, from 2013 until 2018, Kendall supervised investigations and prosecutions of many of the country’s most significant and high-profile cases involving allegations of corporate and financial misconduct. He also exercised nationwide supervisory authority over DOJ’s money laundering program, particularly any BSA and money-laundering charges, DPAs and non-prosecution agreements involving financial institutions.
Ella Alves Capone is Of Counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn, where she is a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations, Fintech and Digital Assets, Financial Regulatory, International Trade Advisory and Enforcement, and Anti-Money Laundering practice groups. Her practice focuses on representing and advising multinational corporations and financial institutions in government and internal investigations and regulatory compliance matters involving Bank Secrecy Act, money laundering, sanctions, consumer protection, anti-corruption, fraud, and payments issues. She also regularly advises clients on the development and implementation of compliance programs and internal controls. Ella has been featured as a fintech “Rising Star” by Law360 and recognized for her White Collar Litigation and Investigations work in Lawdragon’s 500 X – The Next Generation publications. She has also been recognized by Super Lawyers as a White Collar Defense “Rising Star.”
Sam Raymond is Of Counsel in the New York office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations, Litigation, Anti-Money Laundering, Fintech and Digital Assets, and National Security Groups. As a former federal prosecutor, Sam has a broad-based government enforcement and investigations practice, with a specific focus on investigations and counseling related to anti-money laundering, the Bank Secrecy Act, and sanctions. Sam is an experienced investigator and trial lawyer. He served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York from 2017 to 2024. In that role, he tried multiple cases to verdict and prosecuted a broad range of federal criminal violations, including as a lead prosecutor in one of the first cases ever charging individuals with violations of the Bank Secrecy Act.
Contact Information:
For assistance navigating these issues, please contact the the Gibson Dunn lawyer with whom you usually work, the leaders or members of the firm’s Anti-Money Laundering practice group, or the authors:
Stephanie Brooker – Washington, D.C. (+1 202.887.3502, [email protected])
M. Kendall Day – Washington, D.C. (+1 202.955.8220, [email protected])
Ella Alves Capone – Washington, D.C. (+1 202.887.3511, [email protected])
Sam Raymond – New York (+1 212.351.2499, [email protected])
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