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Zachary Brez

Zachary Brez

Kirkland & Ellis LLP, United States

Position

Zach works with companies and their senior officers and directors to investigate, mitigate, defend and advise on complex enforcement and regulatory matters in two primary areas: (1) securities, futures, and derivative financial products before the DOJ, SEC, and CFTC, as well as FINRA, the CME, ICE, CFE, and others; and (2) international risk, such as antibribery and corruption, sanctions, anti-money laundering, and antiboycott issues.

Zach is the co-author of leading practitioner guides in these two areas, which are published by Bloomberg BNA: Commodities & Futures Enforcement: Practice and Procedure in CFTC and SRO Investigations and Sanctions Enforcement and Compliance: A Practitioner’s Guide to OFAC.

Prior to joining Kirkland, Zach was a staff attorney in the Division of Enforcement for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Education

Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., cum laude, 1999; University of Pennsylvania, B.A., 1994.

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