M. Kendall Day is a nationally recognized white-collar partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he is Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Fintech and Digital Assets Practice Group, Co-Chair of the firm’s Financial Institutions Practice Group, co-leads the firm’s Anti-Money Laundering practice, and is a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations and Crisis Management Practice Groups. Kendall is recognized as a leading White Collar attorney, ranked both nationally in Financial Services Regulation: Banking (Enforcement & Investigations) and in the District of Columbia (as a leading White Collar attorney) by Chambers USA – America’s Leading Business Lawyers. Most recently, Kendall was recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® (2023-2026) for his work in white-collar criminal defense and named to Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Global Cyber Lawyers guide (2024-2025), which highlights “lawyers who connect it all – data and security, innovation and inspiration, litigation and exploration." He is also recognized by Lawdragon as a Global Leader in Crisis Management. The Legal 500 US 2025 guide distinguishes Kendall as a "Recommended Lawyer" in Financial Services Litigation and Banking. His practice focuses on internal investigations, regulatory enforcement defense, white-collar criminal defense, and compliance counseling. He represents financial institutions; fintech, digital asset, and multi-national companies; and individuals in connection with criminal, regulatory, and civil enforcement actions involving anti-money laundering (AML)/Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), sanctions, FCPA and other anti-corruption, securities, tax, wire and mail fraud, unlicensed money transmitter, false claims act, and sensitive employee matters. Kendall’s practice also includes BSA/AML compliance counseling and due diligence, and the defense of forfeiture matters. Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Kendall had a distinguished 15-year career as a white collar prosecutor with the Department of Justice (DOJ), rising to the highest career position in the DOJ’s Criminal Division as an Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General (DAAG). As a DAAG, Kendall had responsibility for approximately 200 prosecutors and other professionals. Kendall also previously served as Chief and Principal Deputy Chief of the Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section. In these various leadership positions, from 2013 until 2018, Kendall supervised investigations and prosecutions of many of the country’s most significant and high-profile cases involving allegations of corporate and financial misconduct. He also exercised nationwide supervisory authority over the DOJ’s money laundering program, particularly any BSA and money-laundering charges, deferred prosecution agreements and non-prosecution agreements involving financial institutions.