James (Jim) F. Vivenzio Senior Counsel

Perkins Coie has established a cross-disciplinary task force of 34 veteran lawyers - with experience counseling companies and financial institutions on a wide array of compliance and corporate administration matters - to advise global companies on programs for compliance with the U.S. Corporate Transparency Act (CTA).

Jim Vivenzio was quoted in the Moneylaundering.com article "Canadian Bank Expects US AML Penalty, Insider Threat Notwithstanding” regarding how charges of graft and money laundering against a financial services professional do not automatically warrant a major enforcement action and penalty against his former employee.

Jim Vivenzio was interviewed by ACAMS moneylaudering.com for "Export Controls Pose Growing Compliance Challenge for US Banks," an article highlighting how western nations' efforts to deprive Russia of weapons and other technologies with military applications amid the ongoing war in Ukraine have applied significant pressure on U.S. banks' compliance departments to monitor transactions for evasion of commercial export controls.

Jim Vivenzio was interviewed by MoneyLaundering.com and quoted in an article regarding how U.S. financial institutions that administered COVID-19 pandemic-related aid on behalf of the federal government in 2020 and 2021 may face penalties for having failed to report potentially fraudulent loan applications in a timely manner.

Jim Vivenzio was quoted in “U.S. AML Enforcement Rebounded in 2022, Though Penalties Dropped,” an article in Moneylaundering.com, regarding AML-related regulatory from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and Federal Reserve.