Former Financial Crimes Prosecutor Heads to Squire Patton Boggs

A former top prosecutor in the Justice Department’s money laundering unit is joining the government investigations and white collar practice of Squire Patton Boggs.

The firm on June 25 said it hired Claiborne Porter, a seven-year DOJ veteran, as a partner in its Washington office.

Porter is jumping to Squire Patton Boggs from Navigant Consulting Inc., where he worked for more than a year and a half as head of investigations in the global investigations and compliance practice.

Porter, who joined the DOJ in 2010, served as acting principal deputy chief of the agency’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section and as chief of the section’s bank integrity unit. While in the role, he worked on money laundering and sanctions investigations of major financial institutions and collaborated with state and federal regulators.

His “significant leadership positions at the Justice Department equipped him to provide invaluable advice and assistance to our clients at a time of heightened enforcement scrutiny,” Squire Patton Boggs CEO Mark Ruehlmann said in a statement.

According to his LinkedIn profile, Porter was an associate at both Clifford Chance and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom before moving to the DOJ.

Squire Patton Boggs has built out its government investigations and white collar practice in the last 18 months. In Washington, these hires have included Margaret Dunn from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and David Maria, a former trial attorney in the DOJ’s fraud section and former assistant U.S. attorney for Minnesota.