MICHAEL MANN is a Chambers USA-ranked practitioner that strategically counsels and defends companies, financial institutions, and related individuals in internal, criminal, and regulatory investigations, prosecutions, and litigations. He is a trusted advisor to senior management and boards of directors faced with some of their most complex and sensitive enforcement and investigation-related issues, including matters concerning alleged bribery and corruption, money laundering, and other forms of financial and ethical misconduct.
Michael regularly counsels companies, financial institutions, and their boards on the design, implementation, and maintenance of anti-corruption compliance frameworks, compliance with anti-money laundering laws and regulations (including the Bank Secrecy Act and the USA PATRIOT Act), the due diligence of business partners in international business transactions, and the development of proactive risk assessments. He has led many cross-border internal investigations and sensitive reviews on behalf of clients in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. He also represents clients in an array of complex commercial litigation and employment disputes in federal and state courts, as well as in arbitral forums.
Michael has been ranked in Chambers USA in the field of Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations in New York (2023–2024) and listed as a “notable practitioner” in the Chambers Latin America Guide 2025: International Counsel for Corporate Crime & Investigations. The Legal 500 Latin America recommended Michael for his work in Compliance and Investigations (2024). He has also been recognized as one of five white collar “Rising Stars” by Law360 (2019), and twice received the “Best in White Collar Crime” award at the Euromoney LMG Americas Rising Star Awards (2018, 2019). Michael has been recommended as a “Global Elite Thought Leader” by the Lexology Index for Business Crime Defence (2024), an international leader in “Business Crime Defence” by Who’s Who Legal and has also been listed as a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers magazine, a Thomson Reuters publication. Michael has served on Law360’s White Collar Editorial Advisory Board and the American Bar Association’s Global Anti-Corruption Committee. He is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a member of the Board of Visitors of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park, and serves on both the Dean’s Advisory Council (DAC) and the National Advisory Board for the Advocacy Institute at the University at Buffalo School of Law. Michael also serves on the Board of Directors of the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, a non-profit champion of health equity and community wellness.
Earlier in his career, Michael served as deputy director of scheduling and advance to former President Bill Clinton.