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Marcus A. Asner
Partner
Arnold & Porter LLP

Marcus Asner is a partner in the white collar criminal defense practice group. His practice encompasses international and domestic criminal investigations and prosecutions, including complex business fraud cases, cases involving allegations of bank fraud, healthcare fraud, money laundering, accounting fraud, and securities fraud, and matters involving alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). He also handles complex civil litigation, including commercial, antitrust, and trade secret disputes. Mr. Asner has extensive experience in computer law and intellectual property disputes and investigations, criminal tax investigations and litigation, and public corruption investigations and prosecutions. He also has experience working closely with over a dozen law enforcement agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States Secret Service, the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the United States Postal Inspection Service, the Internal Revenue Service, and the United Kingdom's Serious Fraud Office, among others, both in the United States and abroad.

Prior to joining Arnold & Porter LLP, Mr. Asner served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (2000-2009), where he was the Chief of the Major Crimes and Computer Hacking/Intellectual Property Unit for two years (2007-2009). At the US Attorney's Office, Mr. Asner managed more than 200 criminal investigations and prosecutions, conducted over 15 trials, 20 appeals, and numerous evidentiary hearings. As Chief, he supervised 15 to 20 Assistant United States Attorneys involved in complex financial investigations and prosecutions.

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Frank C. Razzano
Partner
Pepper Hamilton LLP

Frank C. Razzano is a partner in the Washington office of Pepper Hamilton LLP. Mr. Razzano focuses his practice on all areas of civil, commercial and criminal litigation, with an emphasis on U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission enforcement. He has 37 years of civil and criminal jury trial experience, concentrating in securities litigation, broker-dealer regulation, SEC enforcement and white-collar criminal defense. He is a member of the firm’s Italian Desk and Virginia Financial and Securities Fraud Response Team.

Recent matters he has handled include obtaining an acquittal in a criminal insider trading case; a judgment after trial dismissing an SEC cease-and-desist proceeding against the managing director of a major bank involving late trading and market timing; and a dismissal of a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) disciplinary proceeding against the CEO of a major broker-dealer. He also has represented executives of Fortune 500 companies in grand jury investigations and SEC investigations.

In the international arena, Mr. Razzano prosecuted as an Assistant United States Attorney overseas corruption before the FCPA was enacted. As defense counsel, he has handled FCPA, money-laundering, customs and criminal securities cases involving Canada, New Zealand, Germany, the Bahamas, Japan, Costa Rica and the Cayman Islands. He has also successfully defeated attempted extradition, taught International Criminal Law for a decade at University of Maryland Law School, and served as a visiting professor at Catholic University of Poland and the University of Dnepropetrovsk in the Ukraine. He has also published widely on the FCPA and money-laundering.

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Richard M. Strassberg
Partner
Goodwin Procter LLP

Rich Strassberg, a partner in Goodwin Procter’s Litigation Department and chair of its White Collar Crime & Government Investigations Practice, specializes in white collar criminal defense, corporate internal investigations, corporate regulatory practice, and complex business and financial litigation, and has represented entities and individuals in almost all the major white collar cases that have occurred over the last several years. In addition to his work in the white collar and regulatory arenas, he represents clients in complex civil litigation, including representations involving securities class action defense, minority shareholder rights, ERISA class action defense, health care and insurance litigation, and commercial disputes. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Strassberg served as Chief of the Major Crimes Unit in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where he was responsible for supervising approximately 25 Assistant United States Attorneys in the prosecution of white collar criminal cases, including corporate crimes, financial institution fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act cases, money laundering, computer and internet crimes, intellectual property crimes, health care fraud, tax fraud, bankruptcy fraud, environmental crimes, and mail and wire frauds. Prior to becoming the Chief of Major Crimes, he was a member of the Southern District of New York Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, responsible for prosecuting some of the largest securities fraud cases in the country. Throughout his tenure as an Assistant United States Attorney, Mr. Strassberg personally handled all phases of the criminal prosecution of cases involving violations of the securities, anti-fraud, bankruptcy, tax, narcotics, money laundering and involuntary servitude laws, from investigation through trial and appeal, including the successful trial of multiple complex financial and securities frauds.

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Scott D. Michel
Member
Caplin & Drysdale

Mr. Michel is internationally recognized for his extensive experience in handling voluntary disclosures, audits and investigations involving undeclared foreign bank accounts, including those with undisclosed corporate or foundation structures and unfiled Treasury “FBAR” forms. He is currently representing numerous clients worldwide in voluntary disclosures involving undeclared foreign accounts, including those in trust or corporate structures, as well as a number of clients under civil audit or criminal investigation arising out of IRS and Justice Department investigations in this area.

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