Christian Larson
Associate, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
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Christian Larson is an attorney in Cadwalader’s white-collar defence and investigations group. His practice focuses on advising corporations and individuals in connection with state and federal regulations, internal investigations and government inquiries. Christian represents pharmaceutical clients responding to federal investigations, and has served on a monitorship of a major pharmaceutical company approved by the US Department of Justice. He has extensive experience with antimoney laundering and sanctions regulations, and related compliance programmes. Christian has advised financial institutions, cryptocurrency businesses, national governments and individuals in relation to the Bank Secrecy Act, international anti-money laundering rules and global sanctions.
Prior to joining Cadwalader, Christian worked on financial crime matters with the International Monetary Fund and the US Department of Justice Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section. From 2011 to 2014, the US Department of State seconded Christian to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). While with the OSCE, he supported 57 countries in implementing international standards to combat money laundering and served as head of the OSCE delegation to the Financial Action Task Force. Christian has been named repeatedly as a Super Lawyers Rising Star.