Dillon Guthrie

Dillon Guthrie represents technology companies, investment firms, financial institutions, and other businesses in regulatory, investigative, and transactional matters. His regulatory practice spans US and cross-border regimes, with a focus on banking, financial crimes, and digital assets.

Dillon represents clients before regulatory authorities that have included the Federal Reserve, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and Securities and Exchange Commission. His practice in cross-border and national security matters encompasses anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance, counter-terrorist financing, cyber risk, fraud, and other financial-crime matters. Dillon works with financial institutions on questions involving control, chartering, and permissible investments, as well as in developing innovative digital assets, international payment services, and artificial intelligence infrastructures.

Dillon is frequently called upon to represent clients in investigations, internal and congressional inquiries, enforcement actions, and corporate governance matters. He advises bank and corporate boards of directors, audit and special committees, individual directors, and senior management on matters that include alleged fraud, conflicts of interest, internal controls, and risk management. Dillon has also assisted clients in responding to and assessing outages, cyber breaches, and other security incidents, particularly involving wire fraud and other illicit finance.

In the transactional area, Dillon advises public and private companies on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions, early-stage investments, and other corporate and technology arrangements. His experience includes acquisitions and dispositions, spin-offs, joint ventures, restructurings, and financings in the energy, defense, semiconductor, and banking sectors. Dillon also has advised clients in responding to shareholder proposals and unsolicited bids, designing shareholder rights plans, and complying with the securities laws.