Kathleen draws on her uniquely broad experience in government and private practice to help clients navigate fast-moving U.S. legal, policy, and regulatory risks involving international trade, national security, and white-collar crime.
Kathleen provides experienced and steady guidance to clients facing challenging situations, including novel and sensitive cross-border investigations, multijurisdictional civil and criminal disputes, and regulatory compliance matters. She has conducted investigations, risk assessments, and compliance reviews in more than 30 countries, managing domestic and cross-border internal and government investigations and compliance reviews, including significant matters involving bribery and corruption, economic sanctions and export controls, money laundering, and corporate and government program fraud.
She has experience representing clients before a broad range of regulators and enforcement officials, including the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department of Commerce, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, state attorneys general, and other domestic and foreign law enforcement officials and regulatory agencies. She has also represented various corporations and individuals in congressional investigations and inquiries.
During her career, Kathleen served as Senior Advisor and Counsel in the Executive Office of the President, where she focused on legal compliance, internal controls, and investigations, providing guidance and support to more than 25 offices operating within the White House. She also served as counsel for the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Kathleen began her legal career in the Washington, D.C., office of an international law firm, where she handled white-collar and international trade matters, and she previously worked as a broadcast journalist in Virginia.