USA Law and Practice Contributed by: Edward P. O’Keefe, Neil T. Bloomfield, John A. Stoker and Kathryn (Kate) G. Wellman, Moore & Van Allen, PLLC
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Edward P. O’Keefe is a member at Moore & Van Allen and co-heads their financial
Neil T. Bloomfield is co-head of Moore & Van Allen’s financial regulatory advice and response practice. He advises financial services firms on their engagements with government
regulatory advice and response practice. He is the former global general counsel of Bank of America Corporation. From strategy to tactics and logistics, he advises and represents financial institutions. He also advises on law department management, including effective legal engagement with regulators and control functions. Having also headed or served as a senior executive with Bank of America’s compliance, technology, human resources, and operations functions, Ed’s broad experience includes all aspects of investigations, litigation, regulatory compliance, governance, cybersecurity, compensation, and risk management. His regulatory compliance practice includes working with clients with respect to BSA/AML, anti-bribery/anti- corruption, resolution planning, stress testing, and responding to regulatory inquiries.
entities. Neil’s matters primarily fall into two categories – advising institutions on regulatory compliance issues and conducting investigations in response to issues raised internally or by a government authority. Neil regularly represents clients with responses to inquiries by federal, state and international authorities. The matters range from market- wide inquiries like the Panama Papers, foreign exchange trading, and LIBOR to issues experienced at individual institutions, including consent orders, whistleblower complaints, concerns related to auditing practices, vendor management, customer remediation, and consumer lending.
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