Experience
Nick is an attorney with the firm focused on estate and trust planning, estate administration, business planning, and financial and trust institution advice. With diverse experience covering a variety of aspects of law practice, and experience in the financial world, Nick enjoys providing clients with advice that incorporates local insight with a global view. His broad legal experience spans trusts and estate planning, civil litigation, insurance, internal corporate and government investigations, and financial institution regulation.
Nick was raised in South Jersey and attended The College of New Jersey, where he graduated cum laude with a B.S. in Criminal Law and Criminology. After college, he moved to Delaware to attend law school at Widener University – Delaware Law School, graduating cum laude with pro bono distinction for his law school clinical experience through Delaware Volunteer Legal Services (DVLS), one of Delaware’s three legal aid organizations. Nick has been a Delaware lawyer since 2010 and is also licensed to practice law in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Nick previously held internships with Federal Magistrate Judge Carol Sandra Moore Wells in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, through Delaware Volunteer Legal Services, and the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office in New Jersey. After law school, Nick served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Jean B. McMaster in the New Jersey Superior Court. In private practice following his clerkship, Nick handled civil litigation cases at all levels of Delaware courts working at a boutique Delaware litigation firm, before joining a large global law firm where he worked on global financial institution investigations.
Nick joins the Firm from the corporate world, where for nearly 10 years Nick held a variety of roles in Compliance at one of the largest financial institutions in the world. There, he gained a deep knowledge of the operations of the finance industry. Nick worked on Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering investigations, Financial Intelligence investigations utilizing big data, and sanctions compliance. In his last position which he held for several years, Nick was the head of Global Sanctions Compliance Advisory and Investigations covering the analysis and investigation of matters across all lines of business related to the regulations of US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”). Nick focused on OFAC licensing, OFAC investigations, and regulatory implementation, including the unprecedented new sanctions and export controls imposed by OFAC on Russia and other countries beginning in 2022 following the invasion of Ukraine. With experience in the financial industry covering all forms of financial products, asset management, securities, and consumer banking products, Nick’s industry expertise offers clients a unique perspective to meet their needs.
Nick lives in Delaware with his family and enjoys spending time with them outdoors as much as possible, whether it is working around the house, hiking, or going to the beach (or down the shore).
Education
- B.S. The College Of New Jersey (2007)
- J.D. Widener University – Delaware Law School (2010)
Bar Admissions
- Delaware
- Pennsylvania
- New Jersey