FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MIAMI — November 3, 2008 — International banking attorney, Clemente Vazquez-Bello of Gunster Yoakley, one of Florida’s largest full service law firms, recently spoke at the XII Hemispheric Anti-Money Laundering Congress of the Association of Panamanian Banks in Panama City, Panama. Vazquez-Bello’s presentation, delivered in Spanish, was entitled “International Private Banking in the Aftermath of the American Express International, Pasquantino, Sobinbank and Birkenfeld Cases. ”
A member of the Gunster Yoakley’s board of directors, Vazquez-Bello practices in the firm’s Miami corporate department, and the Banking & Financial Practice Group. He focuses on banking and international law and is well known in U.S. and international banking circles for his long-standing career as counsel to domestic and foreign banks. Vazquez-Bello garnered substantial skill in the development and implementation of policies, procedures, and programs and systems, to prevent, detect and react to the movement of illicit capital vis-à-vis U.S. laws and regulations.
Vazquez-Bello also has regularly counseled banking and financial clients in domestic and international licensing, regulatory and transactional matters and is a frequent speaker to a variety of prominent regional, national and international organizations.
He has served as general counsel to the Florida International Bankers Association (FIBA) and is a member of its board of directors. He also provides his expertise to the U.S. Department of Treasury as a member of the Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group (BSAAG). BSAAG is a group within the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). Most recently, he was a board member of the Cuban-American Bar Association.
Vazquez-Bello co-authored The Florida Bar manual “Banking Operations, International Transactions” in 1998. He earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Miami School of Law, cum laude, in 1974.
###
