President, Americas and Global Chief Legal Officer, Merkle Science
Mary Beth Buchanan is currently President, Americas and Global Chief Legal Officer at Merkle Science. She was former General Counsel for Kraken Cryptocurrency Exchange. She was a partner at Bryan Cave LLP in the firm’s White Collar Defense and Investigations and Securities Litigation and Enforcement Client Service Groups. She concentrated her practice on white collar criminal defense, SEC and FINRA enforcement matters, corporate and accounting fraud, internal investigations, corporate compliance, foreign corrupt practices violations, Congressional investigations and complex civil litigation.
Ms. Buchanan served as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania from September 2001 to November 2009, having been appointed by President George W. Bush. She is the only woman in Pennsylvania's history to be presidentially appointed to this position. As the United States Attorney, Ms. Buchanan oversaw the prosecution of more than 5,000 cases, including corporate and securities fraud, bank fraud, foreign corrupt practices, false claims, money laundering, health care fraud, public corruption and a broad range of violent crimes. Prior to that time, Ms. Buchanan spent more than 13 years as an Assistant United States Attorney litigating criminal, civil and appellate cases.
During her tenure as the United States Attorney, Ms. Buchanan also held several posts at the DOJ, including serving as the director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, acting director of the DOJ’s Office on Violence Against Women and chair of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee. Ms. Buchanan also served on the U.S. Sentencing Commission's Organizational Guidelines Advisory Committee, which made recommendations to the Commission for amendments to the Sentencing Guidelines for Business Organizations.
Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations; Former Governor of South Carolina; Author, With All Due Respect: Defending America with Grit and Grace
Nikki Haley is the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in the Trump administration. She is the 29th person to serve in the position.
President Donald Trump asked Haley to serve in the position on November 23, 2016. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on January 24, 2017 and served until December 2018.
Haley previously served as the 116th governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017. From 2005 to 2010, Haley served in the South Carolina House of Representatives, representing District 87, Lexington County.
Associate, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
Brooke Cook is a member of the firm’s Commercial Disputes and Investigations, Financial Regulation, and White Collar Practice Groups. She serves as counsel in a variety of complex commercial litigation matters in both state and federal court, including business litigation, commercial contract disputes, real estate litigation, and employment litigation. Her practice also includes representing both individuals and large companies in government enforcement actions and investigations. Ms. Cook also maintains an active pro bono practice.
Ms. Cook was a summer associate in Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner’s New York office in 2016. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Cook was a judicial intern to the Honorable Norman K. Moon of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia and an extern for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California in the criminal division. During law school, Ms. Cook served as a Dillard Fellow for the Legal Research and Writing program at the University of Virginia School of Law where she assisted first year law students with drafting legal memoranda and appellate briefs and judged an appellate oral argument competition. She was also the assistant managing editor for the Journal of Law & Politics.
Before law school, Ms. Cook worked in public policy in Washington, D.C.
A Discussion with Hon. Nikki Haley
New York City Lawyers Chapter and New York City Young Lawyers Chapter
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