John J. Carney

John J. Carney, CTCF, CFF serves as BakerHostetler’s White Collar, Investigations and Securities Enforcement and Litigation team co-leader in New York. He is a former securities fraud chief, assistant U.S. attorney, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) senior counsel and certified public accountant at a “Big Four” accounting firm. Mr. Carney represents public and private corporations and financial institutions in complex civil, regulatory and criminal law enforcement investigations and litigation, and advises and defends corporations and senior officers on FCPA compliance, investigation and defense. His experience conducting investigations of possible FCPA violations and other potentially improper foreign country-based financial transactions has included working on major matters in the BRIC countries: Brazil, Russia, India and China. Having litigated for, and against, the U.S. government, he strongly encourages clients to take preemptive governance and remediation measures to mitigate legal and reputational risk in today’s increasingly aggressive law enforcement environment. Based on his having represented institutional and individual clients in complex regulatory and law enforcement matters, Mr. Carney was recently listed as one of the best securities enforcement defense lawyers in the U.S. in the Securities Docket “Enforcement 40.” He is ranked in Chambers USA, is a Cryptocurrency Tracing Certified Examiner and also is Certified in Financial Forensics by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Carney lectures frequently at domestic and international conferences and training seminars on anticorruption and anti-money-laundering laws, corporate governance, compliance and disclosure, insider trading, securities, tax and other financial crimes, and defending complex and multijurisdictional civil and criminal cases. He received his B.A. cum laude in accounting from Rutgers University in 1984 and his J.D. in 1990 from Rutgers University School of Law.