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David A. Wolber is a Registered Foreign Lawyer (New York) in Hong Kong and of counsel in the Hong Kong office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of the Firm’s International Trade Practice Group.Mr. Wolber assists clients around the world in understanding and navigating complex legal, compliance, reputational, political and other risks arising out of the interplay of various international trade, national security and financial crime laws and regulations, with particular expertise advising clients on economic and trade sanctions, export controls, foreign direct investment controls/CFIUS, anti-money laundering (“AML”) and anti-bribery and anti-corruption (“ABC”) laws and regulations.Mr. Wolber routinely advocates on behalf of clients seeking trade-related licenses or advisory opinions, responding to governmental inquiries or subpoenas, filing self-disclosures related to potentially non-compliant activity, and dealing with formal regulatory investigations or enforcement actions.Mr. Wolber resumed his practice at Gibson Dunn in 2022 after taking a five-year hiatus to serve as in-house counsel to two major global financial institutions. From 2019 to 2022 Mr. Wolber served as global financial crime counsel for HSBC, located in Hong Kong, where he advised the bank globally on compliance and risk mitigation strategies associated with various jurisdictions’ sanctions, export controls, AML, ABC and national security laws and regulations, with particular focus on such issues affecting thebank in Asia. During his tenure with HSBC, Mr. Wolber played a key role in advising and helping to guide the bank through the significant challenges posed to global financial institutions by the rising tensions in US-China relations and the related proliferation of law, regulation and political action in the US, HongKong and the People’s Republic of China. From 2017 to 2019, Mr. Wolber acted in a similar capacity at MUFG Bank, serving as the bank’s global financial crime counsel located out of New York.Prior to becoming an attorney, Mr. Wolber spent more than 10 years in business strategy and development roles at Big Four accounting firms and major U.S. law firms. Mr. Wolber earned his Juris Doctor magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in 2011. He received a Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University in 1997, where he focused on International Trade and Asian Political Economy, and his Bachelor of Arts from Rockhurst College in 1994. Mr. Wolber is a member of the New York State and District of Columbia Bars.