David Stetson

Dave Stetson is a partner at Steptoe & Johnson LLP in New York.  He advises clients on economic sanctions and related anti-money laundering (AML) and export control issues, providing compliance advice; assisting with regulatory inquiries and internal investigations; and representing clients in license applications, interpretive guidance requests, and delisting petitions, among other matters.  Mr. Stetson previously spent more than eight years in legal and compliance roles at Goldman Sachs, including nearly five years as global co-head of sanctions compliance.  Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, he was an attorney-advisor from 2008 to 2012 in the Office of the Chief Counsel at the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), where he handled a wide range of enforcement, licensing, sanctions targeting/listing, and legislative matters.  Mr. Stetson graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2003 and was a law clerk to then-Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.