
Sophia Breggia counsels clients on a range of regulatory and enforcement matters, primarily in the financial services sector, including those before the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the Department of the Treasury (OFAC and FinCEN) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Her practice involves advising financial institutions, private fintech companies, and public companies engaged in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space on compliance with federal law and regulation, including in the realms of securities, commodities, anti-money laundering, and economic sanctions, among others. Sophia has experience conducting independent investigations, representing clients subject to government investigations, and counseling clients facing enforcement matters before the Department of Justice (DOJ), the SEC, and the CFTC. Additionally, Sophia has assisted on compliance assessments of large cryptocurrency companies and traditional financial institutions, involving those entities’ anti-money laundering, countering the financing of terrorism, and economic sanctions programs, as well as involving electronic recordkeeping policies. Sophia is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where she served as the Executive Online Editor of the Harvard Journal on Legislation, a Research Assistant to Professor Randall Kennedy, and a clinic student extern with a legislative advocacy focused team at Protect Democracy.
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Steptoe LLP
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Nov 2022 - Present
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Law Clerk
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Executive Online Editor
Harvard Journal on Legislation
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May 2021 - May 2022
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Clinic Student Extern
Protect Democracy
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Sep 2021 - Apr 2022
Research Assistant to Professor Randall Kennedy
Harvard Law School
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Oct 2020 - Apr 2022
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Teaching Fellow to Professor Randall Kennedy
Harvard Law School
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Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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