Jane Shvets is a partner in the firm’s White Collar & Regulatory Defense Group focused on white collar defense and investigations, including matters involving allegations of corruption, sanctions and export controls violations and crisis management.

Ms. Shvets represents clients in what are frequently their most sensitive and business-critical matters. These include defending against criminal charges, regulatory inquiries and congressional investigations, as well as conducting internal investigations. A career defense attorney, she has a strong track record in obtaining declinations of prosecution for her clients before matters advance to enforcement. Ms. Shvets is also expert in coordinating settlements and resolutions for companies and individuals, including in the context of intense public scrutiny, and understands how to balance legal solutions with business priorities and optics.

Ms. Shvets boasts a genuine international pedigree, having worked with clients on enquiries from authorities in the U.S., UK, Germany, Russia, and elsewhere, and on matters spanning jurisdictions in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Russia and the Middle East. As one of a few Russian-speaking lawyers in this field, Ms. Shvets brings regional expertise to matters involving Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. 

One of the leaders of the firm’s sanctions practice, Ms. Shvets has guided clients through a sanctions landscape that has shifted significantly and swiftly in recent years. She conducts internal investigations into alleged sanctions violations and helps clients respond to regulatory inquiries from agencies in the U.S., UK, EU, and elsewhere. Ms. Shvets also advises clients on risks and rewards of voluntary self-disclosure of potential sanctions violations to the U.S. Treasure Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and other agencies.

Ms. Shvets is consistently recognised among the world’s leading lawyers. Recent accolades include: 

• Top-ranked for White Collar Crime & Government Investigations and for FCPA in Chambers USA (2024)
• Recommended for Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime (Advice to Corporates) in The Legal 500 UK (2024)
• Top-ranked for Financial Crime: Corporates in Chambers UK (2024)
• Recommended as a Global Elite Thought Leader in Who’s Who Legal (2024)
• Named to the “40 and Under Hot List” (Benchmark Litigation 2023) 
• Named White-Collar Crime Lawyer of the Year (Benchmark Litigation Europe Awards 2020) 
• Named to the “40 Under 40” list (Global Investigations Review 2020)
• Ranked as a Dispute Resolution Star (Benchmark Litigation Europe 2020)
• Named “Best in White Collar Crime” (LMG Europe Women in Business Law Awards 2019) 
• Recognized as a Rising Star for White Collar (Law360 2019) 

Ms. Shvets has been described by her clients and peers as “a superstar,” “outstanding,” “a fine consultant on investigations strategy” and “a classy operator” who “stands out for her professionalism and availability” and “superb technical skills and commercial pragmatism.” She is said to be “always 100% on top of both the detail and the strategic context of every matter,” “[providing] great legal advice,” and “a good communicator, and amazingly attentive to clients.” 

Ms. Shvets speaks regularly on white collar issues, including recent engagements at GIR Live: Women in Investigations 2024, the ABA White Collar Crime Institute, C5 Anticorruption Conference London, WorldECR Forum - London, multiple Cambridge Forums and Anti-Money Laundering Financial Crime Forum.  

Ms. Shvets is a member of the Bar of New York and is also admitted to appear before the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the Eastern District of Michigan. She is a Co-Chair of the Public Corruption/FCPA Subcommittee of the American Bar Association’s Criminal Litigation Committee.

Ms. Shvets received her J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School, during which she served as senior editor of the Harvard Law Review and as an intern at the U.S. State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and the European Roma Rights Center. In 2012, she served as a Special Assistant District Attorney at the Kings County District Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn. She is a native Russian speaker and is proficient in Ukrainian.