Financial Services, OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets and Control) Bank Secrecy Laws and Money-Laundering Compliance and Litigation

Skilled and certified Diaz Reus anti-money-laundering consultants and litigators represent banks, traditional and non-traditional financial institutions, government entities, public officials, and private individuals relating to compliance with OFAC regulations and bank secrecy laws, prevention and detection of money laundering, and the defense against alleged violations of these laws and regulations.

Our financial services clients span the globe, from China to the Middle East, Europe, Latin America and the United States; from banks to money transmitters, Casas de Cambios to Hawalas.  Yet all receive the close personal attention of a responsive top Diaz Reus litigator and consultant supervising our global network of legal affiliates to coordinate responses to U.S. and foreign government inquiries and investigations; and to ensure proper detection and prevention of regulatory violations. 

Further, Diaz Reus attorneys are frequent speakers at national and international conferences on banking, and anti-money-laundering issues, as well as authors of numerous articles on various aspects of financial services and money-laundering investigations.

For our financial services litigation clients Diaz Reus will:

• Provide general consulting and advice on OFAC, bank secrecy laws and other relevant money-laundering prevention and control regulations.
• Implement due-diligence and enhanced due diligence inspections, as well banking operations analysis, to determine potential money-laundering risks.
• Design and implement comprehensive money-laundering prevention systems, including procedures for prevention, detection and control, while simultaneously safeguarding compliance with banking secrecy law and other domestic and international money-laundering laws and regulations.
• Supervise and coordinate money-laundering prevention programs and internal controls.
• Represent banking and financial institutions before regulatory agencies, including providing defense against civil fines, cease and desist orders, injunctions and other regulatory actions.
• Defend and provide litigation support against civil and criminal forfeiture actions, as well as criminal money-laundering and administrative prosecutions before all courts, regulatory and investigatory bodies in all jurisdictions.

For more information, contact attorney Michael Diaz, Jr., Robert I. Targ or Carlos F. Gonzalez at 305-375-9220 or mdiaz@diazreus.com, rtarg@diazreus.com, cgonzalez@diazreus.com.