Bar Admissions
District of Columbia (active) 2009
California (inactive) 2008
Jacob Loshin is a skilled advocate, strategist, and advisor with more than a decade of experience combatting financial crime and working with senior national security officials at the highest levels of the U.S. government. As the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Assistant General Counsel for Enforcement and Intelligence, Mr. Loshin was the principal legal counsel responsible for advising the Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence and for overseeing the use of Treasury’s regulatory, enforcement, intelligence, and diplomatic tools to thwart terrorists, money launderers, rogue states, and other threats to the integrity of the financial system. Mr. Loshin supervised the work of 70 attorneys across six Treasury components, including the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes (TFFC), and the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (OIA). He played a significant role in implementing the economic sanctions in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the 2023 Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel. He also led legal teams that developed major new anti-money laundering regulations under the Bank Secrecy Act, addressed emerging issues regarding digital assets, and brought record-breaking enforcement actions. Earlier, he was Senior Advisor to the General Counsel.
Prior to Treasury, Mr. Loshin was Senior Counsel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where he litigated enforcement actions and appeals involving Ponzi schemes, insider trading, market manipulation, and other forms of securities fraud. He served as enforcement counsel to an SEC commissioner and advised the Commission on a wide range of matters involving securities regulation, whistleblowers, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Mr. Loshin was also a litigator in the Appellate and Critical Motions Group of Winston & Strawn LLP. As a litigator, Mr. Loshin authored numerous briefs filed in the U.S. Supreme Court, argued cases in many of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals, and participated in bet-the-company jury trials. As an advisor, Mr. Loshin has worked closely with Democratic and Republican appointees, and has counseled senior financial regulators and national security officials across three presidential administrations.