Bradley Mirkin

Managing Director

Boston

Brad Mirkin has extensive experience as:

A corporate monitor/regulator-approved independent anti-money laundering (AML) compliance consultant
A senior regulator
A chief compliance officer and chief AML officer
Outside counsel to global financial institutions in regulatory compliance and enforcement actions
A globally recognized compliance expert
An expert witness

Mr. Mirkin has handled investigations and regulatory compliance matters in more than thirty countries. His experience includes building, monitoring, enhancing, and evaluating global, US, UK, EMEA, and APAC compliance programs in a variety of areas (AML, anti-bribery and corruption, cybersecurity, data privacy, environmental, social, and governance (ESG), fraud, information barriers, and sanctions).

Mr. Mirkin’s expertise, experience, and reputation for integrity have led to his selection as a corporate monitor/independent AML compliance consultant for a global financial institution and approval by US securities regulators. In that capacity, he has produced reports and recommendations for US regulators on virtually every aspect of AML compliance.

Mr. Mirkin has engaged in complex decision-making involving compliance and risk for:

US, UK, European, and other foreign banks
US and UK broker-dealers and investment advisers
US, offshore, and other foreign hedge funds
US, UK, and European multinational companies
Payments companies and other fintechs
Sovereign wealth funds
Central banks
High-net-worth investors

Mr. Mirkin has created, supervised, reviewed, and implemented risk assessments on issues such as:

Know your customer (KYC) and onboarding risks (customer, vendor, and intermediary)
Transaction monitoring
Suspicious Activity Reports/Suspicious Transaction Reports
Screening software (adverse media, sanctions, and politically exposed persons (PEP) accounts)
Beneficial ownership
False positives, false negatives, and alert clearing
Due diligence programs
Customer and country risk ranking and algorithms
Benchmarking, metrics, and deliverables
Training programs

With more than a decade of experience with cyber- and information-security programs, including having headed cybersecurity compliance for one of the world’s largest wealth managers, Mr. Mirkin is an expert in shrinking attack surfaces for both global enterprises and small and medium-sized businesses; and in preventing data leakage in areas such as social engineering programs, identification and authentication, patching protocols, least privilege, and information barriers. He also has overseen and advised prominent financial institutions in regulatory examinations of bank cybersecurity programs and cybercrime investigations.

Mr. Mirkin’s experience also includes global data rationalization and data lineage reviews and assessing data flows across networks and global organizations, as well as handling data breaches and incident response. A former corporate chief privacy officer, he led a prominent technology company’s global privacy program, including its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance program.

As a senior regulator, Mr. Mirkin led teams investigating and prosecuting the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s (FINRA) highest-priority matters against member firms and their executive leadership arising from alleged violations of FINRA and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules and orders. He applied his expert insights on broker-dealer and investment management issues to advise FINRA lawyers and investigators in enforcement, member regulation, and market regulation on a range of key issues, including supervision and executive liability.

Mr. Mirkin serves as one of the two US representatives on the International Compliance Association’s Advisory Board and its ESG Compliance committee. He has served in leadership positions within the American Bar Association, including as co-chair of its International AML Committee and as an appointed member of its AML/Anti-Terrorism Financing Task Force.

Mr. Mirkin speaks frequently at conferences and seminars, including keynoting on US and EU compliance and regulation.