FinCEN’s Anti-Money Laundering Developments: A 2015 Update

Bob Graves represents lenders and borrowers in a wide variety of commercial financial transactions and has structured, negotiated, and documented scores of senior debt financing arrangements of all types, including secured and unsecured single bank and syndicated credit agreements, multicurrency financing facilities, and acquisition financings. A significant portion of his practice focuses on workouts and restructurings of troubled credits, with particular emphasis on debtor-in-possession and exit financings. He co-chairs Jones Day's Banking & Finance Practice.

Most recently, Bob has been engaged in representing various market participants with respect to a variety of issues that arose from the 2008 financial crisis and the resulting and ongoing financial regulatory reform. He regularly advises clients on a broad spectrum of financing and financial regulatory issues and Uniform Commercial Code matters.

Matthew L. Schwartz is a Partner in the New York City office of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, where he focuses on government and internal investigations, white collar defense, regulatory compliance, and complex civil litigation.  An experienced courtroom lawyer who has first-chaired numerous jury and non-jury trials and argued more than a dozen federal appeals, he joined the firm in January 2015 after more than nine years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Manhattan. 

As a member of that office’s Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, Mr. Schwartz led a number of high-profile matters, including the deferred prosecution agreement with JPMorgan on BSA/AML charges; the “London Whale” investigation; and all aspects of the Government’s investigation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities.  He is a three-time recipient of the John Marshall Award, the Department of Justice’s highest honor for lawyers.