Tom Firestone is global chair of the firm’s Government Investigations & White Collar Practice Group.
He is recognized as a leading expert on transnational crime and represents companies and individuals in high-profile and sensitive cases before the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and other US agencies and international institutions. His cases often involve the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and civil and criminal forfeiture statutes. Among other successful results, he has obtained OFAC delistings for several sanctioned Russian individuals and entities, the cancellation of several Interpol notices, declinations in FCPA cases from the DOJ and the SEC and a declination in a large international online gambling case.
