The Washington, D.C., office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) deputy enforcement director for litigation Ori Lev as a partner in the firm’s consumer financial services practice.
Lev arrives at K&L Gates following nearly 20 years of public service at a variety of United States government agencies. Prior to the CFPB, he served as the chief of enforcement for the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and as a litigator for the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). His extensive practice includes litigation, government enforcement, and regulatory compliance affecting banks and other consumer financial services companies.
Having joined the CFPB at the agency’s inception in 2010, Lev helped to establish its enforcement office, assisting in the development of its priorities, policies, and procedures. He supervised a team of more than 20 lawyers responsible for investigating and prosecuting cases involving mortgages, auto-lending, for-profit colleges, and student loan servicing, among other consumer financial services and products. Additionally, Lev coordinated legal and enforcement actions with numerous federal and state law enforcement and regulatory partners including the DOJ, FTC, and state attorneys general.
“Ori’s in-depth knowledge of several U.S. government agencies will be invaluable to our clients as they navigate the ever-changing regulatory and enforcement landscape of the consumer financial industry,” said Steven M. Kaplan, a Washington, D.C., partner and one of the leaders of K&L Gates’ financial services practice area. “We look forward to him joining our experienced team of lawyers.”
Lev, who will start in June, is the third new partner addition in the Washington, D.C., office this year, following the earlier arrival of partners Grace Fremlin and Joon Yoon. He joins robust consumer financial services and government enforcement practices that have earned various honors including recent first-tier ranking in the Banking and Finance Law, Financial Services Regulation Law, and Securities Regulation categories of the 2015 U.S. News-Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” survey.
Source: www.klgates.com
