Linda Noonan is Of Counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and a member of the firm's Financial Institutions and White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Groups. She concentrates on Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering compliance and related issues, including Office of Foreign Assets Control requirements, for banks, securities broker-dealers, and other financial institutions and nonfinancial institution businesses.
Ms. Noonan joined the firm from the Department of the Treasury, Office of General Counsel, where she had been Senior Counsel for Financial Enforcement. In that capacity, she was the principal legal advisor to Treasury officials on domestic and international money laundering and related financial enforcement issues. She drafted and shepherded through Congress all legislation concerning the Bank Secrecy Act and Right to Financial Privacy Act from 1986-1994. During her tenure, she drafted or participated in all major Bank Secrecy Act rulemaking and interpretations and negotiated numerous Bank Secrecy Act civil money penalty cases.
Ms. Noonan has extensive international experience, having acted as one of the key U.S. delegates to the Financial Action Task Force ("FATF") on money laundering, the leading international group promoting cooperative efforts against money laundering. She also participated in many other bilateral and multilateral anti-money laundering initiatives. Ms. Noonan was chosen by FATF to be one of the examiners of the Canadian money laundering system and coordinated government-wide the U.S. presentation of its system for FATF examination. She has spoken at FATF seminars in Latin America and the Caribbean for bankers and government officials. Ms. Noonan also participated regularly in training Assistant U.S. Attorneys in Bank Secrecy Act and related issues and conducted other lecturing and training.
Ms. Noonan is a 1977 graduate of the American University, Washington College of Law, and a 1973 graduate, magna cum laude, of the American University, School of International Service.