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Zachary Brez
- Phone+1 212-446-4720
- Email[email protected]
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.