ALEXA POLETTO represents individual and corporate clients in connection with internal investigations, regulatory enforcement actions, and prosecutions conducted by agencies including the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York Department of Financial Services, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and the Federal Trade Commission. She regularly advises senior management and boards of directors regarding sensitive enforcement and investigation-related issues including allegations of financial and ethical misconduct.
Alexa has broad experience in a number of industries and her representations include multinational corporations, banks, broker-dealers, insurance companies, credit card operators, sovereign wealth funds, asset management firms, auto and building manufacturers, life sciences companies, travel technology companies, and sports organizations.
Alexa regularly counsels companies and financial institutions on the design and implementation of corporate compliance programs. She has extensive experience working on corporate compliance monitorships, both representing a financial institution subject to a monitor and as counsel to a corporate monitor.
Alexa has handled matters involving, among other things, alleged bank fraud, insider trading, financial reporting and disclosure issues, FCPA violations, money laundering, sanctions violations, price fixing, and environmental crimes. She regularly advises clients on a range of anti-money laundering (AML), Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and anti-corruption compliance issues, and counsels companies including private equity firms on FCPA and anti-corruption issues in mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures. She conducts internal investigations involving whistleblower complaints and other allegations of criminal, civil, and ethical misconduct.
Alexa also represents companies facing antitrust enforcement matters or responding to Civil Investigative Demands by the Federal Trade Commission. She has experience representing clients in a range of complex civil and criminal litigation.
A fluent Italian speaker, Alexa is often called on to handle matters in Italian.
Prior to joining Sidley, Alexa served as an attorney adviser for the DOJ through the agency’s Honors Program. Prior to law school, she received her B.A. from the College of William and Mary, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Damascus, Syria. She spent several years working in the Middle East and speaks conversational Arabic.