Isabel Espinosa de los Reyes is a member of the firm’s Financial Institutions Group and National Security practice, where she concentrates on financial-crime compliance and enforcement matters, particularly involving U.S. economic sanctions and anti-money-laundering (AML) matters.

She advises U.S. and non-U.S. banks, broker-dealers, asset managers, fund sponsors, insurers, nonprofits, and other companies on the full range of sanctions and AML-related regulatory, supervisory, and enforcement issues. Ms. Espinosa de los Reyes routinely helps clients navigate day-to-day sanctions, AML and export control issues that arise out of new product offerings, corporate transactions, and counterparty diligence. Her work also includes advising on U.S. outbound investment restrictions, designing and enhancing compliance programs, conducting enterprise-wide risk assessments, assisting with internal investigations and voluntary self-disclosures to the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, and supporting clients respond to regulatory inquiries and enforcement actions.

Ms. Espinosa de los Reyes also provides regulatory support in mergers, acquisitions, financings, and other corporate transactions, leading diligence and post-closing remediation on sanctions, AML, and broader trade-compliance concerns. 

Before joining the Financial Institutions Group, Ms. Espinosa de los Reyes was a member of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group, advising on transactions across a wide range of industries.

Ms. Espinosa de los Reyes joined Debevoise in 2018. She received her J.D. from New York University School of Law in 2018, where she was a staff editor of the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics. She earned a B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Southern California in 2012. She is fluent in Spanish.