Skadden hires former FinCEN enforcement head in Washington, D.C.

The Washington workplaces of worldwide regulation agency Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP are seen in downtown Washington, U.S., February 20, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

(Reuters) – Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has introduced on Alessio Evangelista as a litigation companion from the U.S. Treasury Division’s Monetary Crimes Enforcement Community (FinCEN), the regulation agency stated on Monday.

Evangelista, most not too long ago FinCEN’s affiliate director for enforcement and compliance, joins Skadden in Washington, D.C.

Skadden, one of many highest-grossing U.S. regulation corporations, has not too long ago recruited a number of different former authorities company legal professionals. The New York-founded agency employed two former longtime U.S. Securities and Trade Fee enforcement officers, Anita Bandy and Daniel Michael, prior to now yr.

At FinCEN since 2020, Evangelista headed the enforcement, compliance and whistleblower workplaces, overseeing enforcement of anti-money laundering guidelines as utilized to monetary establishments and monetary expertise firms, in accordance with his on-line Skadden bio.

“Compliance and enforcement points involving banks and fintech corporations, together with firms that handle cryptocurrencies and different digital belongings, have considerably elevated over the past a number of years,” Jessica Hough, head of Skadden’s Washington, D.C., workplace, stated in a press release about Evangelista’s rent.

He beforehand labored because the second-ranking official within the U.S. lawyer’s workplace for the District of Columbia and as deputy chief of the U.S. Division of Justice’s financial institution integrity unit, in accordance with Skadden.

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