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Amy Gordon is an associate in the Litigation Department and a member of the Mass Torts & Product Liability, Privacy & Cybersecurity and White Collar Defense & Investigations groups. Her practice encompasses a range of complex civil and commercial litigation matters across a range of industries, including financial services, consumer products and telecommunications. Amy has also advised clients across industries on economic sanctions and asset forfeiture related issues.

Amy has experience with various stages of litigation, including taking and defending depositions, briefing dispositive and discovery motions, coordinating discovery and preparing witnesses for depositions and trial.

Amy maintains an active pro bono practice, including representing clients in litigation to improve housing conditions. In addition, she undertook a five-month secondment while at the Firm, where she worked for the City of New York in the General Litigation Unit.

Amy earned her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law, where she was a Cybersecurity Graduate Fellow and served as Chief Notes Editor for The Review of Litigation. During law school, Amy interned for the Honorable Nicholas G. Garaufis in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

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Sanctions continue to be a dynamic area of regulation and enforcement. In its first year, the Biden Administration has already undertaken a number of different sanctions initiatives. The three examples below highlight the range of strategies employed and their potential ramifications for private investment funds.

Over the past week, the U.S., UK, and EU imposed sweeping sanctions rolled out by the US, in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, outlined here. Also last week, the Department of Justice announced the launch of Task Force KleptoCapture to enforce these sanctions and seize assets belonging to sanctioned individuals and other criminal actors. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland made clear that the U.S. “will leave no stone unturned in our efforts to investigate, arrest, and prosecute those whose criminal acts enable the Russian government to continue this unjust war.”