Katherine Stoller is the U.S. Head of Investigations and White-Collar at A&O Shearman. She advises global corporations, boards of directors and senior executives on complex regulatory and enforcement matters, governance and compliance issues, and high-stakes civil litigation.
Her practice focuses on matters involving allegations of money laundering, AML/BSA violations, economic sanctions violations, securities fraud, bank fraud, corruption and other significant institutional risks. Katherine has extensive experience representing global banks and major multinational businesses in complex cross-border investigations that involve challenging legal, regulatory and operational issues.
Widely recognized as a leading investigations and white-collar defense lawyer, Katherine has been named a White Collar MVP by Law360, recognized as North America Litigator of the Year by Women in Business Law, and nominated by Global Investigations Review as Investigations Professional of the Year. She is also ranked by Chambers USA in Financial Services Regulation: Banking (Enforcement & Investigations) and White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations.
Katherine regularly represents companies and individuals before the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Federal Reserve Board (FRB), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).
In addition to investigations and enforcement matters, she advises clients in the financial services, digital assets and technology sectors on governance and compliance issues, particularly during periods of heightened regulatory scrutiny and organizational change. She also has extensive experience defending civil securities fraud claims and handling complex commercial disputes, especially those involving cross-border litigation, compliance and governance issues.
- Class action
- Commercial
- Commercial and transactions
- Commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution
- Securities
- White collar crime
- Accounting
- Agriculture
- Aviation
- Automotive
- Banking
- Construction and materials
- Consumer goods and services
- Energy
- Financial services
- Fisheries and aquaculture
- Food and beverage
- Forestry
- Gaming
- Government and public policy
- Healthcare
- Industrials
- Insurance
- Investment management
- Media
- Mining
- Natural resources
- Oil and gas
- Pharmaceutical and life sciences
- Real estate
- Shipping
- Social infrastructure
- Technology and telecommunications
- Tourism
- Transport
- Utilities
- JD, Columbia Law School 2006
- Attorney-at-Law, State of New York, US - 2007