Profile

Services

• White Collar, Investigations and Securities Enforcement and Litigation
• Compliance
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
• Commercial Litigation
• Securities and Governance Litigation
• International Asset Tracing and Recovery
• Antitrust and Competition

Industries

• Financial Services Industry
• Healthcare Industry
• Aerospace and Defense

• Overview

Lauren Resnick is a member of the White Collar and Corporate Investigations team and serves as the firmwide Chief Practice Partner. She focuses her practice on internal investigations, white collar criminal defense and regulatory compliance matters. A former assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section chief, and two-time recipient of the Department of Justice (DOJ) Director's Award for Superior Performance, she is regularly retained by executive management and audit committees of Fortune 500 corporations to conduct internal investigations on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), anti-money laundering (AML), fraud, antitrust, international trade and sanctions compliance, and other regulatory compliance issues. 

Lauren regularly conducts compliance risk assessments and counsels companies how to implement infrastructure, policies and procedures to mitigate these enterprise risks. In advising and defending companies on these matters, Lauren leverages her experience directing numerous monitorships in connection with BakerHostetler's appointment by the Department of Justice and other governmental agencies to assess compliance at banking institutions, labor unions, corporations and municipalities, as well as her extensive trial experience.

Select Experience

• Regulatory Compliance
• Prepared code of business ethics and key risk compliance policies covering anti-corruption, insider trading, anti-money laundering, data privacy, government contracts, and whistleblower procedures for domestic and international financial institutions, technology companies and global manufacturing firms.
• Internal Investigations
• Represented large generics pharmaceutical manufacturer in a U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Antitrust investigation, managing a search warrant execution and concurrent Grand Jury investigation as part of a coordinated inquiry into alleged price fixing, customer allocation, and other market-manipulative conduct within the generics pharmaceutical industry.
• White Collar Criminal Defense
• Conducted an extensive two-year investigation of fraud and environmental allegations at a global manufacturing company’s railcar facilities, resulting in the successful negotiation of a favorable resolution with DOJ involving a limited environmental misdemeanor plea by an inactive subsidiary.
• Complex Commercial Litigation
• Supervised the extensive financial reconstruction and global investigation and litigation of hundreds of actions seeking recovery of fraudulent transfers for equitable distribution to the defrauded customers of the decades-long operations of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. Directed a team and oversaw the SIPA Trustee's forensic accounting consultants in identifying and analyzing the systems and procedures utilized by Madoff to report fictitious trading.
• Monitorships
• Supervised a team enforcing a consent decree requiring the eradication of organized crime influence at an operating engineers union, providing oversight to ensure fair job referral and election procedures in connection with the firm's appointment as the ethical practices attorney for Local 14, 14B.
• Experience
• Regulatory Compliance
• Prepared code of business ethics and key risk compliance policies covering anti-corruption, insider trading, anti-money laundering, data privacy, government contracts, and whistleblower procedures for domestic and international financial institutions, technology companies and global manufacturing firms.
• Conducted compliance risk assessment and management training regarding antitrust, export controls, anti-corruption and anti-money laundering for a Germany-based manufacturing company with operations in the United States.
• Developed anti-corruption internal assessment protocols and plans for a global energy company to assess compliance in high-risk jurisdictions.
• Assessed and optimized a major bank’s global compliance on data privacy, government contracts, FCPA and other regulatory compliance matters in connection with the firm’s appointment as monitor of a non-prosecution agreement between the DOJ and Mellon Bank, N.A.
• Advised a global credit card brand on export control gap analysis and inventory in preparation for its establishment and implementation of a comprehensive export control compliance program.
• Appointed by the DOJ to serve as independent examiner of the Bank of New York to monitor the bank’s procedures regarding suspicious activity, reporting practices and anti-money laundering, as well as its compliance with related laws and regulations, reporting directly to the Offices of the U.S. Attorneys for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the New York State Banking Department.
• Internal Investigations
• Represented large generics pharmaceutical manufacturer in a U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Antitrust investigation, managing a search warrant execution and concurrent Grand Jury investigation as part of a coordinated inquiry into alleged price fixing, customer allocation, and other market-manipulative conduct within the generics pharmaceutical industry.
• Conducted a comprehensive investigation for an audit committee and executive management of an international financial services company regarding compliance with OFAC trade sanctions in Iran, Syria, Libya and Cuba. Analyzed AML procedures, books and records to advise the client on disclosure obligations.
• Advised a defense contractor in an FCPA-related internal investigation of a Russian reseller involved in the distribution of products to government affiliated end users in Russia. Offered best practices to strengthen the company’s compliance system, integration of acquired businesses into the corporate compliance structure, and addressed current issues and potential problems to address going forward.
• Represented an international hedge fund accountant in a Securities and Exchange Commission and U.K. Financial Services Authority investigation of accounting and securities practices.
• White Collar Criminal Defense
• Conducted an extensive two-year investigation of fraud and environmental allegations at a global manufacturing company’s railcar facilities, resulting in the successful negotiation of a favorable resolution with DOJ involving a limited environmental misdemeanor plea by an inactive subsidiary.
• Represented major pharmaceutical generics manufacturer in a U.S. Department of Justice Criminal antitrust investigation and parallel internal investigation.
• Primary author of a motion to dismiss based on prosecutorial misconduct that secured the unprecedented dismissal of a 73-count state fraud and money laundering indictment against the former CEO of a half-billion-dollar commercial real estate conglomerate.
• Represented a client in criminal prosecution for wire fraud and money laundering in connection with $30 million of escrowed funds. Obtained a favorable disposition following the successful litigation of key evidentiary issues for trial.
• Represented a senior sales executive in connection with a multijurisdictional criminal antitrust investigation of auto parts manufacturers by the DOJ and the European Commission, analyzing criminal and civil exposures.
• Complex Commercial Litigation
• Supervised the extensive financial reconstruction and global investigation and litigation of hundreds of actions seeking recovery of fraudulent transfers for equitable distribution to the defrauded customers of the decades-long operations of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. Directed a team and oversaw the SIPA Trustee's forensic accounting consultants in identifying and analyzing the systems and procedures utilized by Madoff to report fictitious trading.
• Represented a senior government official inIqbal v. Ashcroft involving constitutional and statutory challenges to the detention policies following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, resulting in a favorable U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the pleading standards required to bring actions in federal court.
• Monitorships
• Supervised a team enforcing a consent decree requiring the eradication of organized crime influence at an operating engineers union, providing oversight to ensure fair job referral and election procedures in connection with the firm's appointment as the ethical practices attorney for Local 14, 14B.
• Managed a team assessing a bank's global compliance on data privacy, government contracts, FCPA and other regulatory compliance matters in connection with the firm's appointment as the monitor of a non-prosecution agreement between the DOJ and Mellon Bank N.A.
• Supervised lawyers and forensic specialists reporting directly to the government and banking regulators on the bank's anti-money laundering compliance program in connection with the firm's appointment as the independent examiner of a non-prosecution agreement between the DOJ and the Bank of New York.
• Managed a team of lawyers and forensic specialists assessing the review of complex structured finance transactions and providing recommendations to senior management in connection with BakerHostetler's appointment as the monitor of a non-prosecution agreement between the DOJ and Merrill Lynch & Co., stemming from the Enron probe.
• Recognitions and Memberships
• Recognitions
• BakerHostetler Women's Committee Trailblazer Award (2019)
• Chambers USA: Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations in New York (2014 to 2019)
  • Band 3 (2018 to 2019), Band 4 (2014 to 2017)
• The Legal 500 United States (2016 to 2019)
  • Recommended in Dispute Resolution - Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense
• The Best Lawyers in America© (2010 to Present)
  • New York: Criminal Defense – White-Collar
• New York Metro "Super Lawyer" (2006 to 2019)
  • "Top 50 Women" (2013 to 2015)
• Department of Justice Director's Award for Superior Performance (two-time recipient)
• Memberships
• Association of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York: Board Member (2004 to 2019)
• NYC Citizens Crime Commission: Board Member
• Women's White Collar Defense Association
• Prior Positions
• United States Department of Justice: Assistant U.S. Attorney, Chief of Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section, Eastern District of New York
  • Spearheaded the DOJ's global initiative to combat electronic crime.
  • Lead prosecutor in high-profile civil rights cases and organized crime and business fraud prosecutions. 
    • Prosecuted Lemrick Nelson for the racially motivated fatal stabbing of Yankel Rosenbaum during the 1991 anti-Semitic riots in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
    • Prosecuted NYC police officers for the 1997 sexual assault of Abner Louima.
  • Law Clerk for the Honorable Raymond J. Dearie of the District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • Admissions
  • S. Supreme Court, 2007
  • S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1994
  • S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, 2015
  • S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 1991
  • S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1991
  • Massachusetts, 1991
  • New York, 1991
  • Education
  • D., Harvard Law School, 1990, cum laude
  • A., Brown University, 1987, magna cum laude
  • News
  • 8/15/2019
    198 BakerHostetler Attorneys Named in 2020 "Best Lawyers" List; 16 Recognized as "Lawyer of the Year"
  • 8/15/2018
    193 BakerHostetler Attorneys Named in 2019 Best Lawyers List; 10 Recognized "Lawyer of the Year"
  • 12/28/2016
    150 BakerHostetler Attorneys Named 2016 Super Lawyers; 91 Named Rising Stars
  • 5/2/2016
    Hedge Fund Team Hosts Former SEC Commissioner Troy Paredes in a Series of Regulatory Summit Discussions
  • 12/22/2014
    Bloomberg'sarticle "Madoff Victims to Get $322 Million in Trustee Payout" acknowledges BakerHostetler attorneys at announcement of fifth distribution plans
  • 11/18/2014
    Reutersreports on further BakerHostetler success reaching settlements boosting total recovery of funds stolen by Madoff to nearly $10.5 billion
  • 11/17/2014
    CNBC reports on BakerHostetler and the Madoff Recovery Initiative in article Madoff Recoveries Top $10 Billion With New Settlement, "… an amount virtually no one thought possible"
  • 11/17/2014
    The Associated Pressreports on BakerHostetler and the Madoff Recovery Initiative recoveries of $10.5 billion
  • 5/5/2014
    BakerHostetler talks with USA Todayabout the SIPA Trustee's fourth pro rata interim distribution; states Madoff Recovery Initiative nears $6 billion in distributions to allowed claimants
  • 1/7/2014
    BakerHostetler's settlement with JPMorgan Chase and the ongoing Madoff Recovery Initiative Discussed on National Public Radio's All Things Considered
  • 7/26/2013
    George Stamboulidis Shares Unique Insight into Organized Crime on National Geographic Series, "Inside the American Mob"
  • 2/15/2013
    BakerHostetler appears on NPR's All Things Consideredto discuss Madoff Recovery Initiative; host Robert Siegel interviews SIPA Trustee Irving Picard and his Chief Counsel David Sheehan
  • 2/12/2013
    Madoff Recovery Initiative surpasses $5 billion in distributions to allowed claimants; CNBC's Scott Cohn discusses latest recovery with BakerHostetler's SIPA Trustee Irving Picard and his Chief Counsel David Sheehan
  • 12/10/2012
    Madoff Recovery Initiative Marks Fourth Anniversary … Moves into Fifth Year Still Building Recovery Momentum
  • 9/21/2012
    BakerHostetler's work recovering more than half of the losses in the Madoff Ponzi scheme featured on WNYC in interview on The Brian Lehrer Show
  • 9/20/2012
    Press Release: Second Interim Distribution of Recovered Funds to Madoff Claim Holders
  • 6/25/2012
    Press Release: United States Supreme Court Denies Certiorari, Upholding Net Equity Decision in BLMIS Liquidation
  • 1/5/2012
    The Wall Street Journalshowcases BakerHostetler and the "unprecedented magnitude" of the global recovery efforts in article "The Madoff Liquidation, Three Years Later"
  • 10/4/2011
    Press Release: Initial Interim Distribution of Recovered Funds to Madoff Claims Holders
  • 12/17/2010
    The New York Timesreports on BakerHostetler's negotiation and settlement with the Picower Estate for $5 billion in the SIPA liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC
  • 5/25/2007
    Stamboulidis Appointed Monitor of Mellon Bank by DOJ
  • 5/10/2006
    DOJ Appoints Firm as Independent Examiner
  • Press Releases
  • 6/3/2019
    BakerHostetler Attorneys Make Significant Gains in The Legal 500 Annual Guide
  • 4/29/2019
    Chambers and Partners USA Honors 127 Attorneys and 43 Practice Areas in 2019 Guide
  • 6/5/2018
    BakerHostetler Boosts High Marks in the Legal 500 2018 Annual Guide
  • 5/3/2018
    Chambers and Partners USAHonors 118 Attorneys and 45 Practice Areas in 2018 Guide
  • Publications
  • Alerts
  • 10/31/2018
    DOJ's New Guidance on Monitorships: Reaffirming the Importance of Compliance and Preventing Misconduct
  • 7/17/2013
    BakerHostetler's The Navigator
  • Articles
  • 5/30/2013
    Wall Street Lawyer: FCPA Enforcement on the Rise in Private Investment Industry, Warn Lauren Resnick and Marco Molina
  • 10/20/2008
    Directors & Boards: "Dos and Don'ts For Managing a Monitor"