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Lance Aduba
Associate
Lance’s practice focuses on white-collar criminal defense, government and internal investigations, arbitration, and complex litigation, with a special emphasis on cryptoassets, securities fraud, antitrust, and commercial contracts.
As a former assistant federal public defender in Puerto Rico and along the U.S.-Mexico border, Lance managed over 100 felony cases at a time, in addition to working on several appeals. This built on his federal district court clerkship with the Honorable Judge Andrew Carter, Jr. in the Southern District of New York.
Before joining Dynamis, Lance ran large-scale complex, global litigation, arbitration and investigations at two prominent law firms in New York. He has significant expertise representing multinational corporations across banking, healthcare and telecommunications industries in internal and regulatory investigations involving the FCPA and other anti-corruption laws, sanctions, and racketeering and misrepresentation claims. He has an extensive background working with national regulatory bodies such as the DOJ, SEC, OFAC, and CFTC, as well local and state authorities, and even worked in-house at the Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (Mexican Stock Exchange). In New York, for example, Lance oversaw cases involving well-known securities fraud claims valued at $203 million for Morgan Stanley, as well as a related DOJ investigation that resulted in a $2.6 billion settlement.
Lance is completing both the MBA and Graduate Diploma in Compliance programs at the Pontifical Catholic University in Santiago, Chile and brings a critical global business lens and client-side perspective to every matter he handles. He regularly advises multinational companies and startups in Latin America on a range of legal and strategy topics related to compliance, risk mitigation and data privacy. He is a fluent Spanish speaker with a working proficiency in Brazilian Portuguese and has a deep understanding of Latin America legal practice and cross-border work, due to his professional experience in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Puerto Rico and working with clients in the UK, China and India.
Experience
Lance’s engagements include:
Representing more than 100 consumers in multi-million-dollar claims against Coinbase related to unauthorized access of and withdrawals from their accounts by hackers.
Representing multinational telecommunication company in FCPA investigation related to its practices in Mexico and Brazil.
Representing aviation company in FCPA investigation by the DOJ related to its operations in Brazil, Latin America and Russia.
Representing multinational petroleum company in long running international arbitration and related civil and appellate litigation in connection with multi-million-dollar dispute related to oil exploration in Eastern Europe.
Representing multinational pharmaceutical company in FCPA and UK Bribery Act investigation related to its operations in India.
Representing prominent U.S. university in civil dispute related to its departure from athletics conference.
Representing multinational bank in class action civil litigation and DOJ, CFTC and FSA investigations related to manipulation of LIBOR rates.
Representing multinational bank in DOJ, OFAC and Department Financial Services investigation related to compliance with Iran and Zimbabwe sanctions regulations.
Representing real estate investment trust company in connection with civil dispute with former employee and internal investigation prompted by ex-employee’s allegations.
Representing one of the largest aluminum smelters in the world in racketeering and over $1B fraud investigation and civil dispute related to alleged bribes paid by former joint venture partner in the Middle East.
Representing multinational medical device company in DOJ investigation related to misrepresentations.
Representing global financial institution in the industry-wide investigations into hiring practices in China of relatives of government officials.
Representing financial institution in SEC investigation into its high-frequency trading practices.
Education
Harvard Law School, J.D.
University of California, Santa Barbara, B.A., Political Science, cum laude
Admissions
New York
U.S. District Court: Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court: Eastern District of New York