When the Government Comes Knocking: How to Engage with Regulators

Clare Putnam Pozos represents clients in a broad range of white collar, investigations, crisis management, and privacy and cybersecurity matters. Ms. Pozos is the former First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, which is one of the nation's largest districts. In that role, she served as the second-ranking official in the U.S. Attorney's Office, overseeing the investigation and prosecution of cases involving a wide variety of federal crimes, including securities, commodities, insurance, health care, pandemic-related fraud, and other complex frauds, insider trading, public corruption, cybercrime, and asset forfeiture. Before holding that position, she served as the Senior Advisor to the U.S. Attorney, advising on criminal and civil case decisions, hiring and employment matters, and Department of Justice policy initiatives.

A seasoned trial lawyer, Ms. Pozos served as an Assistant United States Attorney for over a decade, first in Washington D.C. and later in Philadelphia. She has prosecuted hundreds of cases, acted as lead counsel in over 40 trials, and handled numerous appeals before both federal and state courts involving fraud, public corruption, cybercrime, and complex dark web narcotics investigations.

Rebecca Lubens manages a docket of complex regulatory and litigation matters as an Associate General Counsel at Ernst & Young. Before coming to EY, Rebecca was a Senior Counsel in the Enforcement Division at the SEC. She started her career at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, where she focused on securities enforcement and white collar defense. Rebecca received her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and her B.A. from Harvard University.

Karen Kreuzkamp is OpenSea’s Senior Director, Regulatory and Compliance and is based in San Francisco. She manages the company’s responses to regulatory investigations and inquiries, oversees the compliance program, and supervises the law enforcement response team.

Karen joined OpenSea from the U.S. Department of Justice, where she most recently served as a Supervisory Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of California. In this role, Karen supervised large, high-profile investigations and trials, including racketeering, murder, money laundering, extortion, human trafficking, wire fraud, health care fraud, narcotics conspiracies and trafficking, and various firearms offenses. As a line AUSA, Karen investigated and prosecuted a variety of cases involving members of the most violent criminal organizations in Northern California. Prior to serving as a federal prosecutor, Karen served as a Senior Counsel in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement.

Karen was an associate at two international law firms, Morrison & Foerster and King & Spalding, where her practice focused on government and internal investigations. She served as a law clerk for the Honorable Jule E. Carnes of the Northern District of Georgia. Karen earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law and her Bachelor of Acts, with highest honors, from Emory University.

Kendra is the Assistant General Counsel for Environmental for United States Steel (U. S. Steel) located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In her role she manages a team of environmental lawyers overseeing and advising the company on a variety of compliance, policy, and complex environmental matters. Her diverse background in working on environmental issues from litigation, to regulatory, sustainability and policy allow her to provide her company with quality counsel and strategy on a variety of issues.

Her dynamic background includes prior roles as Senior Counsel Environmental for Tyson Foods, Inc. and Director Senior Counsel for Litigation and Contingencies for Windstream Services, LLC. Before entering corporate positions, Kendra was with the Arkansas Attorney General’s Office for almost 10 years finishing as Senior Assistant Attorney General for Environmental.

Kendra graduated from University of Arkansas School of Law with her Juris Doctorate in 2004. She received Bachelor of Science degrees in Political Science and Biology from University of the Ozarks in 2001.

Licensed: United States Supreme Court, Arkansas State and Federal Courts, D.C. Court of Appeals Memberships: Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, Arkansas Bar Association, and the Arkansas Association of Defense Attorneys.

Jessica Chan is the Director of Government and Regulatory Investigations & Litigation (“GRIL”) at Uber, where she handles government investigations and inquiries on behalf of the company.

Prior to joining Uber, Jessica was Senior Counsel in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement in San Francisco. Jessica began her legal career as an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Covington & Burling, with a focus on white collar crime and SEC enforcement.

She also completed a judicial clerkship with the Honorable Shira A. Scheindlin of the Southern District of New York. Jessica received her J.D. from New York University School of Law and her B.A. from Yale University.