Sabeen Baakza

Ms. Baakza is a Senior Advisor within the firm’s Financial Crimes Advisory practice, operating out of the Phoenix office. Ms. Baakza maintains a Juris Doctor and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS), with over five years of experience in complex and high-profile anti-money laundering (“AML”) and financial intelligence matters. Ms. Baakza’s subject matter expertise spans investigations involving exploitation of an array of financial products and services to perpetuate terrorist financing, multi-million-dollar investment-related Ponzi schemes, child pornography, human trafficking, narcotics/cigarette trafficking, money laundering through virtual currencies, and political bribery and corruption, among others. Ms. Baakza’s current responsibilities include directly engaging with clients to enhance their understanding of BSA/AML needs, developing client work product, and delivering clients BSA/AML-related strategies and solutions tailored towards their individual institutions. Ms. Baakza holds a Bachelor of Science in Biopsychology of Brain, Behavior, & the Cognitive Sciences from the University of Michigan and obtained her Juris Doctor from Thomas M. Cooley Law School at Western Michigan University.