JenniferBlecher

Jennifer Blecher is a Partner at Seiden Law who defends financial institutions, corporations, and individuals in their highest-stakes white collar, regulatory, and complex civil matters, the cases that carry criminal, enforcement, and civil exposure at once. Over a decade at Sullivan & Cromwell she represented major financial institutions, including Standard Chartered Bank, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, and Moody’s, in OFAC sanctions matters, FCPA investigations, SEC and CFTC enforcement proceedings, and high-stakes securities, antitrust, and tax litigation. She subsequently served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of the Virgin Islands, investigating and prosecuting white collar and public-corruption matters and arguing appeals in federal court.

Blecher is retained when a matter carries both government-facing and civil enforcement risk, and when the client needs a lawyer who has handled that combination at the highest level on both sides of the courtroom. Her work includes securing dismissal of the dissolution claim in the New York Attorney General’s action against the National Rifle Association on substantive and First Amendment grounds, obtaining DOJ Antitrust and CFTC declinations for Goldman Sachs, and resolving Standard Chartered Bank’s deferred prosecution agreement and related regulatory settlements. She has tried cases and argued appeals in New York state and federal courts, including the Second Circuit.

Sophisticated clients, co-counsel, and referring firms turn to Blecher when a matter cannot afford a learning curve, and she litigates with and against the nation’s leading firms. She is particularly well-suited for financial institutions, corporations under regulatory scrutiny, and high-net-worth individuals facing parallel civil and criminal exposure, and for matters requiring a lawyer equally at home in a courtroom and in front of a regulator.