Andrea Tokheim
USA Guide 2024
Band 4 : Financial Services Regulation: Banking (Compliance)
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Band 4
About
Provided by Andrea Tokheim
Practice Areas
Financial Services; Bank Regulatory; FinTech; Foreign Investments and Trade Regulations
Career
Andrea Tokheim focuses on U.S. regulation of international and domestic banks. She advises on issues relating to organization structure, ownership and control issues, non-banking activities, affiliate transactions, and anti-money laundering compliance, including the USA PATRIOT Act. Ms. Tokheim has significant experience with the commodity trading-related activities of banking organizations and bank capital requirements. She has also advised clients on regulatory investigations and enforcement actions, including anti-money laundering concerns and consumer compliance matters.
Before joining the Firm, she was counsel in the legal division of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C., where from 2004 to 2009 she focused on issues related to the Board’s role as the primary federal regulator of U.S. bank holding companies and the U.S. operations of international banking organizations, as well as a wide variety of issues relating to the financial crisis. Ms. Tokheim was closely involved in the Board’s decision to permit certain bank holding companies to engage in energy tolling and energy management activities. She also has significant experience with the “push-out” provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.
Professional Memberships
ABA
Personal
University of Virginia Law School (J.D., 2000); Yale University (B.A., 1995)
Chambers Review
USA
Andrea Tokheim is recognized for the strength of her compliance practice, which frequently sees her resolving a wide range of regulatory challenges. Clients often seek her out for assistance with the Patriot Act, AML and bank ownership issues.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"She has great experience and sophistication. She is very responsive and also a great creative thinker."
"She has great experience and sophistication. She is very responsive and also a great creative thinker."