Jasper Helder, Partner, Akin
Advises multinational companies on economic sanctions, export controls, national security (including European Union (EU) and United Kingdom investment review), trade regulation, anticorruption and anti-money laundering compliance.

Recognised authority on regulatory matters involving Russia, the Middle East and China.

Guides clients in high-stakes sectors and markets, including energy, semiconductors and hi-tech, telecommunications, aerospace & defence, commodity trading, investment funds and private equity, through complex multijurisdictional sanctions and trade compliance challenges.

Jasper helps clients in highly regulated sectors and global markets in complex international trade, national security and regulatory matters.

Laura Lane, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, Chevron
Laura J. Lane, 58, is chief corporate affairs officer for Chevron Corporation, a position she assumed in February 2025. She is responsible for overseeing government affairs, communications, social investment and performance, and the company’s worldwide efforts to protect and enhance its reputation.

Prior to this role, Lane served as chief corporate affairs officer for UPS where she led a global team managing all public policy and government affairs, public relations, employee communications, sustainability, community relations, and The UPS Foundation work in more than 200 countries and territories. Before UPS, Lane was managing director and head of international government affairs at Citigroup and vice president for global public policy with Time Warner.

Lane began her career serving as a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service, where she served as economic and consular officer in Bogota, Colombia, and economic and political-military affairs officer at the American Embassy in Kigali, Rwanda. She also worked in the Economic and Business Bureau and in the State Department Operations Center. After her work in the State Department, Lane served as a trade negotiator in the Executive Office of the President in the United States Trade Representative’s Office. In this role, she was the trade in services negotiator with China as part of its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and served as U.S. negotiator on the first-ever WTO Financial Services Agreement. She also managed bilateral trade affairs with the Middle East and the Mediterranean countries, negotiating the Qualifying Industrial Zone agreements with Egypt, Israel and Jordan.

She is a member of the Advisory Board for the Bettering Human Lives Foundation.

Lane received a bachelor’s degree in political science and history from Loyola University and a master’s degree in foreign service in international economics and business diplomacy from Georgetown University. She is a Truman Scholar, a Juliette Low Society member and Ironman finisher.

Joshua Larocca, Managing Director - Investigations, Diligence and Compliance, Kroll
Joshua J. Larocca is a Managing Director in the Investigations, Diligence and Compliance practice, based in New York. He has extensive experience leading teams of investigators, digital forensic examiners, data scientists, forensic accountants and research analysts across a wide range of complex financial crime, incident response, due diligence and corporate misconduct investigations on behalf of corporations, law firms and financial institutions.

Josh’s diverse practice includes CFIUS advisory work as both a third-party auditor and monitor; consulting on money laundering and sanctions matters pursuant to compliance monitorships; and leading incident response teams investigating a broad array of data breach and ransomware matters.

Previously, Josh served as both a local and federal prosecutor, first as an Assistant District Attorney (ADA) in New York County and later as Trial Attorney in the Counterterrorism Section of the National Security Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. As an ADA, he presented numerous cases to the grand jury and conducted felony and misdemeanor trials across a broad array of violent crime, domestic violence and identity theft cases. At Main Justice, Josh was responsible for investigating and prosecuting international and domestic terrorism cases, including matters involving terrorist financing, material support, money laundering and economic sanctions. In addition to his government service, Josh has worked as an Associate at an international law firm and at Citibank Russia, first as Chief of Staff to the CEO, and later as a Relationship Manager.

Prior to joining Kroll, Josh was a longtime business and practice leader at a leading cybersecurity and investigations firm.

Josh holds an A.B., cum laude, in Slavic languages and literatures from Princeton University, a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law and an M.Sc. in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Jason Prince, Partner, Akin
Former Chief Counsel to the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

Led the legal development of OFAC’s Russia-related sanctions program in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Helps to lead Akin’s top-tier, multijurisdictional economic sanctions practice, including as related to Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba and other jurisdictions worldwide

Extensive global sanctions experience, including in the emerging areas of fintech and virtual currency.

More than 20 years of legal experience, both in government and private practice.

Jason counsels exporters and multinational companies, including financial institutions, on an array of U.S. regulatory compliance and enforcement matters at the intersection of international trade and national security. Jason has a global practice across sanctions, anti-money laundering (AML), export controls, national security, and investigations amid a rapidly evolving geopolitical environment.

In particular, Jason advises financial services, technology, software, fintech, virtual currency, aerospace and defense, e-commerce, semiconductor, telecommunications, energy, mining, agribusiness and other companies on navigating the increasingly complex legal regimes of economic sanctions, AML and export controls. He helps to lead Akin’s top-tier, multijurisdictional economic sanctions practice.

Jason is the former Chief Counsel of OFAC, where he oversaw the legal design of new sanctions measures and led the legal review of all major enforcement, compliance, licensing, regulatory and litigation actions across OFAC’s more than 35 sanctions programs. He also served as an Attorney-Advisor in the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of the Assistant General Counsel for Enforcement and Intelligence, providing legal advice to OFAC and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). Before becoming a senior U.S. government official, Jason was the co-chair of the sanctions and export controls practice group at another large U.S. law firm.

As OFAC’s chief counsel, Jason gained in-depth experience leading OFAC’s implementation and enforcement of sanctions programs against nations such as Russia, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela, and thousands of designated individuals and entities deemed to threaten the national security, foreign policy or economy of the United States. In the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Jason led the legal development of OFAC’s Russia-related sanctions program. Jason also oversaw the legal advice for the issuance of more than a dozen new sanctions-related executive orders, directives, and determinations.

Further, Jason played a major role in OFAC’s response to humanitarian and political crises in Venezuela and Afghanistan, regulating investment in China’s military-industrial complex, and combatting emerging cyber threats, narcotics trafficking and atrocities in Ethiopia and Burma.

Jason focuses his practice on helping clients to comply with complex, evolving legal restrictions governing international trade and investment, as well as internal investigations, compliance program reviews, voluntary self-disclosures and enforcement actions involving OFAC’s sanctions regulations, FinCEN’s AML-related authorities, the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security’s (BIS) Export Administration Regulations (EAR), and the U.S. Department of State, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls’ International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).

Additionally, Jason is experienced in helping companies develop policies and procedures, due diligence protocols and training programs aimed at minimizing compliance risks. In the sanctions arena, Jason has experience with preparing OFAC license applications and interpretive guidance requests, as well as voluntary self-disclosures of potential violations and meeting with OFAC and U.S. Department of State officials to advocate on behalf of clients in relation to such submissions.

Jason’s experience also includes serving as a law clerk to Judge Susan H. Black of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, as well as a deputy press secretary to Nobuteru Ishihara, a former Japanese House of Representatives Member and Economy Minister.