Sophia Breggia

Sophia Breggia counsels clients on a range of regulatory and enforcement matters, primarily in the financial services sector, including those before the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the Department of the Treasury (including OFAC and FinCEN), and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). As a member of Steptoe's Financial Innovation & Regulation practice, Sophia's 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. She has experience conducting internal independent investigations and 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 and interned with a legislative advocacy-focused team at a non-profit legal organization. She also worked as a summer associate at a law firm in Massachusetts and was seconded to a large institutional asset management company, during which time she gained experience assisting with compliance matters in the investment and asset management space.