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Sandpiper: Hot Topics in SEC and DOJ Enforcement and Litigation - New York 2025

January 23, 2025
New York, NY

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
1285 Avenue of the Americas

Join us for our complimentary, invitation-only enforcement and litigation briefing featuring the views of senior SEC enforcement officials, DOJ prosecutors and defense counsel who have been directly involved in shaping the contours of securities enforcement.

The agenda reflects the current focus on what’s next AND how present and past perspectives will inform where we are going. Many of the practitioners on the faulty served formerly in senior government positions in the Division of Enforcement, SEC or in U.S. Attorney’s Offices, SDNY and EDNY.

Among the notable hot topics we will cover are:

  • DOJ and SEC enforcement priorities
  • Cybersecurity readiness, disclosure and enforcement
  • The continuing impact of Whistleblowers on investigations and enforcement
  • Cooperation, Self-Reporting and Expectations Established by DOJ/SEC Programs and Incentives
  • Cryptocurrency and digital assets and the future of SEC actions, criminal prosecutions private litigation based on court rulings and shifting government priorities
  • Insider trading
  • Increasing role of state AGs

Faculty from the Government
Antonia M. Apps, Regional Director, New York Office, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, New York
Andrew Dean, Co-Chief, Asset Management Unit, Enforcement Division, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, New York
Scott Hartman, Co-Chief, Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York
Katherine C. Reilly, Chief, Complex Frauds & Cybercrime Unit, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York
Alixandra E. Smith, Chief, Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of New York
Noah Solowiejczyk, Co-Chief, Illicit Finance & Money Laundering Unit, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, New York

Other Panelists from Law Firms & Corporate Law Departments, Advisors
Adam S. Aderton, Partner, Co-chair, Securities Enforcement Practice Group, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, Washington, D.C.
Anita B. Bandy, Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP; Former Associate Director, Division of Enforcement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D.C.
Una A. Dean, Vice President, Assistant General Counsel, Head of Global Investigations and Cybersecurity, IBM Corporation, New York
Harris Fischman, Partner, Co-chair, Investigations Practice Group, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York
Gurbir S. Grewal, Partner, Milbank LLP; Former Director, Division of Enforcement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, New York
Justin Herring, Partner, Mayer Brown LLP; Former Executive Deputy Superintendent, Cybersecurity Division, New York Department of Financial Services, New York
Jacquelyn M. Kasulis, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP; Former Acting U.S. Attorney for the EDNY, New York
A. Kristina Littman, Partner, Co-chair of the Securities Enforcement and Willkie Digital Works Practice Groups, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP; Former Chief, Crypto Assets and Cyber Unit, Division of Enforcement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, DC (Co-moderator)
David Markowitz, Global Co-head of Litigation and Regulatory Proceedings, Goldman Sachs, New York
Osman Nawaz, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP; Former Chief, Complex Financial Instruments Unit, Division of Enforcement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, New York
Jonathan Rajewski, Vice President, Forensic Services, Charles River Associates, Houston
Lorin L. Reisner, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP; Former Chief, Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the SDNY, New York (Co-moderator)
Waqas Shahid, Vice President, Forensic Services, Charles River Associates, New York
Ryan VanGrack, Vice President of Legal, Global Head of Litigation, Coinbase Global Inc., Washington, D.C.

Program: 9:00am – 1:00pm EST

CLE and CPE have been applied for.

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