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Alyssa

Alyssa Misner

Director

Washington DC, USA

Languages:

  • English
  • Spanish

Regional expertise:

  • North America
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • South America

Education:

  • MA (joint degree) Latin American studies and journalism, New York University
  • BA international studies, American University

Alyssa specialises in disputes and investigations and heads the Washington DC office. 

A Spanish-speaking Latin America specialist, Alyssa has 18 years’ experience managing and conducting complex investigations in support of disputes, transactions and white collar criminal allegations across the Americas and Europe. 

A former Wall Street compliance officer and Big Four consultant, she also has a robust AML, FCPA and third party due diligence background, as well as antitrust monitorship experience. She formerly led the North American business intelligence practice for a global risk consultancy.

Project highlights

  • Led onsite employee interviews to investigate whistleblower claims in a Latin American arm of a multinational extractives company.
  • Co-led the investigative team in the US DOJ’s antitrust monitorship of the USD 66 billion merger of Bayer and Monsanto.
  • Conducted in-country Central American document review regarding the money-laundering schemes of a narcotrafficker doing business with US companies, presenting findings to US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.
  • Managed the Spain clawback investigations for counsel to the Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities bankruptcy trustee.