Alessio Evangelista

Alessio Evangelista is a partner in Freshfields' investigations and white collar defense and corporate crime practices in Washington, DC and New York. He brings nearly two decades of distinguished government service as a federal prosecutor and senior Treasury Department official, combined with expertise advising boards and senior executives of financial institutions and multinational companies on high-stakes criminal and civil enforcement matters involving fraud, market manipulation, anti-money laundering (AML), economic sanctions, bribery and corruption, and other corporate crimes.

Prior to joining Freshfields, Alessio was a partner at another international law firm where his practice focused on representing clients in complex and highly sensitive criminal investigations and civil enforcement matters before the Department of Justice (DOJ), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), federal banking agencies, and state regulators. He advised international banks, global technology companies, registered broker-dealers, payment service providers, prediction market operators, digital asset companies, and senior executives on matters involving parallel enforcement proceedings, BSA/AML compliance, and emerging enforcement priorities.

Before entering private practice, Alessio served as head of the Enforcement and Compliance Division at FinCEN, the primary anti-money laundering regulator in the United States. He supervised FinCEN's Enforcement, Compliance, and Whistleblower offices, overseeing all civil enforcement investigations involving banks, broker-dealers, futures commission merchants, casinos, digital asset service providers, and money services...