Amy G. Rudnick, a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, joined the firm in 1995.  Ms. Rudnick co-chairs the firm's Financial Institutions Group and is a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Group, specializing in criminal, civil, and regulatory enforcement proceedings involving anti-money laundering laws and regulations, including the Bank Secrecy Act, as amended by the USA PATRIOT Act.  Ms. Rudnick also counsels domestic and foreign banks, securities broker-dealers, investment companies, insurance companies, finance companies, money services businesses, other financial services businesses, casinos, and other multinational corporations with respect to anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing compliance programs, currency transaction and suspicious activity reporting requirements, Customer Identification Programs, Enhanced Due Diligence policies and procedures, and Office of Foreign Assets Control laws and regulations.  She conducts due diligence reviews in connection with possible acquisitions of U.S. and foreign businesses directed to avoiding civil and criminal liability under applicable U.S. and foreign money laundering, anti-bribery and economic sanctions laws and regulations.  Ms. Rudnick is ranked nationally as a leading lawyer for Financial Services Regulation in the 2010 guide of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business.  From 1994-2003, Ms. Rudnick was a member of the Treasury Department's Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Rudnick was the Director of the Department of the Treasury's Office of Financial Enforcement.  She was responsible for proposing Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering legislation, issuing Bank Secrecy Act regulations and interpretations, investigating and assessing civil money penalties, and coordinating Bank Secrecy Act compliance with the Treasury and bank supervisory agencies, law enforcement authorities, and the Securities and Exchange Commission.  Her international efforts included participation in the 1989 G-7 Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering and the negotiation of law enforcement cooperation agreements with foreign governments.  Previously, Ms. Rudnick was a trial attorney in the Justice Department's Criminal Division, Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section, where she investigated and prosecuted drug and money laundering cases, and a clerk for the Honorable Ellen Bree Burns, United States District Court Judge, District of Connecticut.

Ms. Rudnick received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University in 1976, and graduated with honors from the George Washington University Law School in 1980.