Michael L. Vila, Esq.

A lawyer with over a decade of experience advising and working inside banks, broker-dealers, and other financial institutions regarding compliance programs, regulatory response, regulatory remediation, and other matters.  Michael leads Sia Partner’s Financial Crimes Advisory Practice working with financial institutions on Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”)/Anti-Money Laundering(“AML”), Know Your Customer (“KYC”), and Sanctions issues.

As a political science major, he wrote his honors thesis on the Democratic Transition Paradigm discussing the political challenges young democracies face primarily in Latin America.  Professionally, he started his career at Deutsche Bank, and then while at PwC Advisory advised a broad range of clients in a variety of different capacities, and levels including within the front office and trading floor, operations, compliance, board reporting, as well as audit.