Washington, DC Super Lawyers 2012 for Securities & Corporate Finance
The Best Lawyers in America 2012 for Banking Law
Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business 2012 for Financial Services Regulation: Banking (Enforcement & Investigations)
- JD, Syracuse University College of Law, 1982
- BA, magna cum laude with high honors, Brandeis University, 1979
- District of Columbia
- Supreme Court of the United States
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Richard Alexander's practice involves some of the most significant enforcement, supervisory, and governance matters affecting the financial services industry.
Mr. Alexander represents financial services companies and their officers and directors, as well as accountants, attorneys, and other professionals, in significant enforcement or investigative proceedings brought by federal or state agencies. He has led the firm's representation of clients in high profile matters initiated by, among others, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the US Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Office of Thrift Supervision.
Mr. Alexander's practice includes representing financial service companies with respect to a wide range of issues arising out of the supervisory process. He has extensive experience in federal anti-money laundering laws and frequently counsels clients on the bank examination process. Mr. Alexander also has significant experience with respect to issues arising out of the conservatorship or receivership of regulated financial service companies.
He regularly is called upon to counsel clients with respect to complex corporate governance issues, often representing Boards of Directors or their Audit and Special Committees. He has conducted many internal or independent investigations into alleged accounting fraud, legal, ethical, and internal control violations, self-dealing, and other wrongdoings.
Mr. Alexander, an alumnus of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, also serves as the firm's Managing Partner.
Washington, DC Super Lawyers 2012 for Securities & Corporate Finance
The Best Lawyers in America 2012 for Banking Law
Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business 2012 for Financial Services Regulation: Banking (Enforcement & Investigations)
The Legal 500 US 2011 for Financial Services
Washington, DC Super Lawyers 2011 for Securities & Corporate Finance
Washingtonian's "Best Lawyers" 2011 for Financial Services
Washingtonian's "Top Lawyers" 2009
A. Patrick Doyle, Kevin F. Barnard, Richard M. Alexander and Richard E. Baltz "The rulemaking process has begun: the Dodd-Frank Act requires more than 180 rulemakings" (PDF: 80 kB) Complinet-Thomson Reuters 09 Nov. (2010)
Richard M. Alexander, Robert M. Clark and Jeremy W. Hochberg "The Dodd-Frank Act's Banking And Financial Company Enforcement Provisions" (PDF: 403 kB) The Banking Law Journal September 2010
Richard M. Alexander and Ronald D. Lee "Trends in Data Security: Business Risk and Legal Exposure" (PDF: 57 kB) Global Banking & Financial Policy Review, 2005-2006 (10th Edition)
Richard M. Alexander and Joshua R. Martin "Managing Crises by Conducting Internal Investigations" (PDF: 136 kB) Financier Worldwide's Managing Risk & Resolving Crisis Review September 2005
"Resolution Plan Deadlines Approaching for Insured Depository Institutions and Holding Companies" (PDF: 326 kB) Mar 2013
"Deadline Approaching for Foreign Banks on Living Wills" (PDF: 377 kB) Jan 2013
"Federal Reserve Proposes Enhanced Prudential Standards for Large Financial Institutions" (PDF: 978 kB) Jan 2012
"FinCEN Overhauls Stored Value Treatment Under the Bank Secrecy Act" (PDF: 344 kB) Aug 2011
"Federal Reserve Proposes Rule to Define the Nonbank Financial Companies It Could Supervise" (PDF: 645 kB) Feb 2011
"The Rulemakings Process Has Begun: The Dodd-Frank Act Requires More Than 180 Rulemakings" (PDF: 371 kB) Aug 2010
"FDIC Approves Revised Interagency Memorandum of Understanding on its Backup Supervision Authority" (PDF: 386 kB) Jul 2010
"FinCEN Proposes Overhaul of Stored Value Treatment Under the Bank Secrecy Act" (PDF: 412 kB) Jul 2010
"Are You Prepared? A Compendium of Advisories on the Dodd-Frank Act" (PDF: 10.10 MB) Jul 2010
"Dodd-Frank Act Creates New Resolution Process for Systemically Significant Institutions" (PDF: 576 kB) Jul 2010
"Banking and Financial Company Enforcement Provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act" (PDF: 455 kB) Jul 2010
"Dodd-Frank Act Mandates Stricter Capital Requirements for Financial Institutions" (PDF: 469 kB) Jul 2010
"Dodd-Frank Act Addresses Systemic Risk" (PDF: 645 kB) Jul 2010
"Congress Finalizes Landmark Financial Regulatory Reform Legislation" (PDF: 813 kB) Jul 2010
"Federal Banking Agencies Issue Final Guidance on Incentive Compensation" (PDF: 478 kB) Jul 2010
"Senate Passes Landmark Financial Regulatory Reform Bill" (PDF: 382 kB) May 2010
"Summary of Treasury's Capital Assistance Program" (PDF: 247 kB) Mar 2009
"Stimulus Bill Amends Restrictions on Executive Compensation Under TARP" (PDF: 280 kB) Feb 2009
"Treasury Announces the Financial Stability Plan" (PDF: 224 kB) Feb 2009
"Treasury Announces New Restrictions on Executive Compensation" (PDF: 273 kB) Feb 2009
"Continued Participation In or Opt Out of the FDIC Debt Guarantee Program" (PDF: 193 kB) Dec 2008
"US Treasury Announces Details and Guidelines for Capital Purchase Program" (PDF: 636 kB) Oct 2008
"US Treasury Announces Capital Purchase Program for Qualifying Financial Institutions" (PDF: 246 kB) Oct 2008
"Commercial Real Estate Concentrations" (PDF: 243 kB) Jul 2008