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Material Support Defense
Defense involving 18 U.S.C. §§ 2339A/B, alleged services, funds, personnel, training or expert advice.
Washington, D.C. · Senior-led counsel
Counsel where finance, government and national security converge.
Kevin Hall Law Firm helps institutions, boards, organizations and individuals make defensible decisions when a transaction, investigation or government action carries consequences across several legal systems at once.
Practice directory
An expanded team for connected business and government risk.
The firm’s core remains financial crime, terrorism finance, sanctions and national-security enforcement. These additional practices address the disputes, transactions, data, workforce and asset questions that often arise from the same facts.
Each page below is a complete practice resource with scope, services, client groups, working method, selected capabilities and the senior lawyers responsible for the work.
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Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Federal litigation, internal investigations, emergency relief, financial evidence and cross-border dispute strategy.
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Corporate and Commercial Transactions
Regulated transactions, fintech partnerships, diligence, allocation of sanctions risk and post-closing control integration.
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Financial Crimes, AML and Sanctions
Terrorism finance, AML/CFT, material support, OFAC, FinCEN, the BSA and complex financial investigations.
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Regulatory and Government Enforcement
Coordinated response to DOJ, FBI, Treasury, FinCEN, prudential regulators and parallel congressional scrutiny.
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Government Affairs and Lobbying
Congressional investigations, FARA, public policy, agency engagement and carefully aligned legislative strategy.
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Intellectual Property
IP ownership, licensing, digital evidence, brand protection and technology rights in regulated or high-risk transactions.
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Cybersecurity and Data Privacy
Incident response, cyber investigations, privacy, breach obligations, data governance and regulatory coordination.
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National Security and International Trade
Export controls, CFIUS, sanctions, trade compliance, foreign investment and national-security review.
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Employment and Workforce Matters
Sensitive investigations, compliance leadership, executive risk, whistleblowers and regulated workforce response.
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Real Estate, Tax and Private Client
Asset tracing, beneficial ownership, complex structures, sensitive property transactions and private-client risk.
Four integrated pillars
A single team across criminal, regulatory, sanctions and policy risk.
Terrorism-financing matters rarely stay in one lane. A transaction review can trigger a suspicious-activity analysis, an OFAC blocking question, a grand-jury subpoena, or inquiries from a board, correspondent bank and government agency at the same time. Our four pillars are designed to operate as one response.
01 · DEFENSE
Material Support & Investigations
Defense under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2339A and 2339B, grand-jury response, witness preparation, evidence analysis and parallel sanctions strategy.
02 · COMPLIANCE
AML/CFT Programs
Risk assessments, governance, customer and counterparty diligence, transaction monitoring, information sharing, testing and remediation.
03 · SANCTIONS
Designations & Delisting
OFAC blocking and 50 Percent Rule analysis, licensing, humanitarian pathways, administrative reconsideration and enforcement submissions.
04 · ENFORCEMENT
Government Response
DOJ, FBI, FinCEN, OFAC, congressional and cross-border engagement managed through one privileged, fact-driven strategy.
Practices
Ten capabilities dedicated to counter-terrorism finance.
We do not treat CTF as a subsection of a general white-collar practice. Every capability below is organized around financial flows, national-security authorities and the operational realities of regulated institutions and humanitarian organizations.
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Terrorism-Financing Investigations
Immediate response to subpoenas, interviews, searches, account restrictions, monitorships and parallel inquiries.
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AML/CFT Program Design
Enterprise risk assessments, board governance, policies, controls, model validation, testing and remediation.
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Correspondent Banking & Section 311
Foreign correspondent diligence, payable-through risk, nested relationships and special-measures exposure.
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OFAC Sanctions & Licensing
Blocking, rejecting, reporting, ownership and control, general licenses and specific-license applications.
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Designation & Delisting
Administrative reconsideration, evidentiary submissions, questionnaires and coordinated cross-border relief.
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Charities & Humanitarian Operations
Donor, grantee, beneficiary and delivery-channel controls that protect legitimate relief activity.
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Crypto, Fintech & MSBs
Wallet and transaction analytics, travel-rule issues, agents, liquidity partners and escalation design.
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TBML, Hawala & Informal Value Transfer
Trade-document review, value-transfer mapping, corridor analysis and culturally competent fact development.
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Cross-Border Enforcement
MLAT requests, extradition risk, data transfer, coordinated sanctions and multi-agency investigative response.
Government affairs · FARA · CTF
Policy strategy that does not compromise the legal defense.
Congressional, legislative and FARA issues can become part of the same factual record examined by prosecutors, regulators and sanctions authorities.
We coordinate government-affairs work with criminal and regulatory counsel so public statements, registrations, document productions and policy advocacy remain accurate and consistent. The team evaluates whether activity for a foreign principal raises FARA questions, prepares for congressional interviews and information requests, and helps institutions explain CTF controls to policymakers without exposing privileged legal analysis.
Where pending legislation, appropriations language, sanctions authorities or humanitarian exceptions affect a lawful operation, we build a record grounded in operational facts. The goal is credible engagement, not public theater.
Government enforcement practiceIndustries
Controls must fit the institution that operates them.
Banks
Correspondent banking, Section 311, 314(a)/(b), sanctions screening, SAR governance and remediation.
Fintechs
Rapid growth, sponsor-bank oversight, payment rails, cross-border products and control maturity.
Charities & NGOs
Donor, partner, beneficiary and humanitarian delivery controls calibrated to actual risk.
Crypto Exchanges
Wallet screening, blockchain analytics, Travel Rule workflows, mixers and high-risk corridors.
Money Services Businesses
Agent oversight, informal value transfer, remittance corridors, cash activity and state-federal coordination.
Why Kevin Hall Law Firm
Senior judgment, organized for high-consequence matters.
Since 2002, the firm has operated from Washington with a partner-led model. The lawyers responsible for strategy remain close to the documents, data and decision-makers.
That structure matters in CTF work. Definitions are technical, facts cross borders, and a single internal email can be read differently by a regulator, prosecutor or sanctions authority. We establish a common chronology, preserve privilege, identify the controlling legal standards and separate provable facts from assumptions. Advice is delivered in language that boards, compliance officers, investigators and operational teams can use.
2002Firm established
2Partners
1Washington office
4Integrated pillars
Attorneys
A senior team shaped by government and institutional experience.
Our lawyers bring backgrounds in federal prosecution, DOJ counterterrorism, OFAC, FinCEN, congressional oversight and financial-institution counseling.
Founder & Managing Partner
Kevin Hall
Terrorism Financing Defense & Investigations. Leads crisis response, material-support defense and cross-border investigative strategy. His practice is built around early command of the facts, disciplined privilege, and coordinated engagement with prosecutors, regulators and financial institutions.
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Partner
Daniel R. Mercer
Terror Financing & Material Support Defense. Represents organizations and individuals in investigations involving 18 U.S.C. §§ 2339A and 2339B, grand-jury process, classified-information issues, and parallel sanctions exposure.
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Senior Attorney
Michael Reed
CTF Compliance, Banks & Correspondent Banking. Counsels banks, MSBs and payment businesses on enterprise CTF controls, correspondent banking, Section 311 risk, sanctions screening, governance, investigations and sustainable remediation.
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Senior Attorney
Robert J. Hayes
Government Affairs, FARA & Terror Finance. Guides clients through congressional inquiries, national-security policy, FARA analysis, appropriations and authorizing legislation, while coordinating carefully with criminal and regulatory defense teams.
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Senior Attorney
Thomas E. Carter
National Security, Sanctions & Delisting. Advises on blocking, ownership and control, licensing, humanitarian transactions, delisting petitions, enforcement submissions, and cross-border coordination with sanctions authorities.
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Senior Attorney
Jonathan K. Walsh
Crypto, Charities & CTF Controls. Designs risk-based programs for virtual assets, humanitarian activity and nonprofit operations, with emphasis on wallet analytics, donor and beneficiary diligence, information sharing and defensible escalation.
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Practical analysis for legal and compliance leaders.
Material Support
Building the factual record before a § 2339B theory hardens
How counsel can map knowledge, services, counterparties and communications while protecting privilege and avoiding speculative internal conclusions.
Compliance
Section 314 information sharing in a fast-moving CTF review
A governance framework for responding to 314(a) requests and using 314(b) information sharing within its statutory and regulatory conditions.
Sanctions
Humanitarian activity after a terrorism-related screening alert
A disciplined process for ownership analysis, license review, documentation, escalation and outreach without unnecessarily abandoning lawful relief activity.
A larger practice, one method
Connected advice for facts that move across forums.
A payment investigation can become a sanctions issue, cyber incident, contract dispute, workforce review, transaction problem and congressional inquiry. The firm now presents those connected capabilities as complete practices rather than hiding them behind four broad labels.
Each team works from a common chronology and documented decision structure. Specialist analysis remains precise, but clients see the dependencies early: what one agency can request, what a contract requires, what a board must decide and how a public statement may affect litigation.
How the firm works
Expanded senior bench
More depth without losing partner attention.
Four additional senior male lawyers extend the team into complex litigation, corporate transactions, cybersecurity and international trade.
They work with the firm’s existing financial-crime, sanctions, compliance and government-affairs lawyers. Matters receive the combination of experience they need, while one senior lead remains accountable for strategy, work plan and client communication.
Senior Attorney
Charles H. Bennett
Complex Litigation, Asset Forfeiture & Cross-Border Disputes
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Senior Attorney
William R. Douglas
International Trade, Export Controls & National Security
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