David Aufhauser

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About David Aufhauser

David Aufhauser is Senior Counsel in the law firm Williams & Connolly and has been consistently named as one of the city's top lawyers and as one of the nation's top 100 white collar and criminal defense attorneys. He currently chairs the law firm’s Anti-Money Laundering and Economic Sanctions Sanctions Group. In addition to more than 30 years as a litigation partner for complex civil and criminal regulatory enforcement matters, David served as the General Counsel of the US Department of Treasury, the Global General Counsel of the UBS AG investment bank, and as the Chairman of the National Security Council Policy Coordinating Committee for Terrorist Financing. He was one of the principal authors of the anti-money laundering provisions of the Patriot Act and the development of the use of sanctions as a principal tool of economic statecraft. He holds awards for his government service from the Treasury and State Departments, the FBI, and the Central Intelligence Agency. David has served as a senior adviser at the Center of Strategic & International Studies (CSIS); is a former member of the Council on Foreign Relations; a board member of the Atlantic Council; and has served on a Global Markets Advisory Board of the U.S. government’s National Intelligence Council. Mr. Aufhauser has testified frequently before Congress and has been a guest lecturer at the law schools of Harvard, Chicago, and Georgetown, and at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, American University, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, the Brookings Institute and the University of Virginia Miller Center for Public Affairs. Specialties: His areas of practice include Patriot Act and FCPA compliance counsel, and criminal and civil litigation defense in sanctions, anti-money laundering, and financial services.