Bradley L. Dizik

Bradley Dizik is President of Guidepost’s Emerging Issues + Technology practice. Global Investigations Review (GIR) referred to Bradley in its GIR 100 as a “rising star” and named him to GIR’s 40 Under 40 2024, “being described by law firm partners as someone who outworks others, provides thorough and timely support and exceptional work product.”

Bradley specializes in leading large-scale, sensitive, and cross-border investigations. He has successfully led investigations across six continents. He provides crisis management counseling and manages public, community, and media relations strategies for his clients. Bradley’s practice focuses on solving clients’ most difficult challenges, whether as part of a criminal or regulatory inquiry, in anticipation or pursuit of litigation, or as investigative diligence or business intelligence.  He supports clients with global risk assessments and compliance program development and implementation.

Bradley’s unique experience includes:

• Led internal investigation of alleged export/ITAR violations conducted by a US Attorneys’ Office and Department of Justice’s National Security Division, resulting in criminal declination for client; served as client’s Chief Compliance Officer during Department of Justice investigation.

• Led compliance assessment and implementation of recommended remediation efforts for University of Michigan Board of Regents in the aftermath of sexual misconduct findings against a former provost and football team sports doctor.
• Led investigation for digital asset company involved in intellectual property and trademark infringement litigation, resulting in summary judgment in favor of client and summary judgment and dismissal of all counterclaims and defenses.
• Led investigation for Fortune 250 individual of former adviser who mishandled tens of millions of dollars of digital assets, overseeing the tracing and recovery efforts, resulting in a full recovery and favorable litigation settlement.

• Led investigation of foreign influence campaign involving thousands of expats of a foreign nation, resulting in successful adverse legal actions including contempt holding against influence campaign leader.
• Leading After-Action Review for Oakland County, Michigan of first responder response to the Oxford (Michigan) High School shooting. 
• Led post-action security review and oversaw independent investigation for Oxford Community Schools of events prior to, during, and after Oxford High School shooting.
• Led forensic accounting and economic damages analysis for a health care company under investigation by a US Attorneys’ Office for alleged Stark Act and Anti-Kickback Statute violations, resulting in criminal declination for client.
• Leadership roles on U.S. Department of Justice Monitorships of General Motors, Point72 Capital Management (formerly, SAC Capital), and the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA).
• Leadership role on independent investigation of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee’s response to sexual abuse allegations.
• Leading risk assessment, compliance program gap analysis, and program implementation with focus on ITAR, export, bribery, and terrorist financing for US-based NGO that provides equipment, logistics, and support to US Department of Defense, Department of State, and their partners .
• Leading risk assessment, compliance program gap analysis, and program implementation for Kiev, Ukraine-based university and its US-based 501c3 foundation.
• Led development of FCPA, import/export, sanctions, and AML compliance program for a U.S. government contractor that supplied equipment to U.S. and foreign militaries and intelligence agencies.
• Led investigation of organization found to have been engaging in illicit money transfer practices, a form of potential terrorist financing in Afghanistan, Iran, Kurdistan, Lebanon, and Turkey.
• Led the investigation of a publicly traded automotive supplier for FCPA, AML, and Iranian sanction violations in the United States, People’s Republic of China, Brazil, United Kingdom, and Singapore.
• Leading intelligence gathering efforts across LATAM and Middle East of supply chain activities in the energy sector. 
• Led investigation of expropriation of privately owned mine by a LATAM country. 
• Led investigations of foreign terrorist organizations’ digital asset pig butchering schemes across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
• Leading extensive investigation to uncover, trace, and value millions of dollars’ worth of digital assets involved in a high-profile divorce. 
• Led investigation for digital asset company of trademark infringement by anonymous network of social media accounts, resulting in attribution of over six dozen anonymous accounts, comprehensive network analysis illustrating leadership structure and statistically demonstrating influence reach, and numerous takedowns of adverse accounts across various social media and blockchain exchange platforms.
• Led investigation of digital asset influencer engaged in alleged fraudulent activity using digital platforms and social media to pump and dump meme coins involving front running, wash trading, and market making manipulation.
• Led investigation, tracing, and recovery of actor Seth Green’s stolen non-fungible token (NFT) from Australia.
• Led investigation and tracing in collaboration with Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, resulting in full recovery of stolen digital assets from Thailand.
• Led post-judgment investigation of four anonymous digital asset wallet addresses violating court order in NFT trademark infringement matter, resulting in attribution for all four digital asset wallet addresses including one that was held by adverse (losing) attorney.
• Led internal investigation for digital promotion company led by former professional athlete deplatformed from digital marketplace because of pretextual allegations of fraud.
• Led internal investigation for leading NFT and digital asset promotion company deplatformed from multiple social media platforms because of allegations of fraud and illicit use of bots to acquire valuable digital assets, resulting in declination and favorable settlement with a social media company that included return of digital assets and accounts.
• Led internal investigation and compliance program assessment for digital asset money service business under investigation by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for inadequate money laundering (BSA/ AML) controls, resulting in declination.
• Led investigation for consumer intelligence company of joint venture partner’s infringement of proprietary data, statistical modelling, and algorithmic code.  
• Led development of compliance, privacy, and cybersecurity programs for leading musculoskeletal care digital health care provider, resulting in achieving HITRUST, SOC2, and HIPPA certifications in less than a year.
• Lead HIPPA security rule risk assessments, privacy, and cybersecurity program reviews for digital health care companies.
• Led investigation of major University president for mistreatment of sexual assault survivors, resulting in termination.
• Led investigation of former management company of the largest Masonic Temple in the world for corruption and financial fraud, resulting in summary judgment in favor of client and summary judgment and dismissal of all counterclaims and defenses. After former management company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in effort to escape accountability, purchased majority of creditor claims, rejected restructuring plan, and obtained court order placing former management company in Chapter 7 bankruptcy, resulting in significant financial recovery from former management company executives of illicit financial transfers.
• Lead executive protection, digital vulnerability assessments, and security reviews for ultra-high net worth individuals, public figures, athletes, corporate directors and executives, and digital asset investors.
• Lead special situations security for national multi-family residential property management company.
• Led security assessment and design for multi-family residential property management company after shooting and murder at portfolio property.
• Lead pre-grant and investment investigative diligence for private and public foundations, family offices, and ultra-high net worth individuals.
• Lead money transfer license (MTL) investigative diligence for digital asset money service businesses.
• Advised one of the U.S. military’s largest suppliers of jet fuel to troops in Afghanistan in a U.S. Congressional investigation of alleged corruption in Central Asia and follow-on investigations by foreign authorities.
• Advised one of the world’s largest financial institutions in a False Claims Act (FCA) investigation in which the company was alleged to have misled the federal government about aspects of the business operations of a former life insurance subsidiary, resulting in Department of Justice and SIGTARP declinations.
• Advised one of the world’s largest mineral resource companies on compliance with U.S. regulatory requirements including the FCPA, AML, and negotiations with foreign governments related to US import and export control requirements.
• Receiver in Battaglia v. Battaglia; Docket No. 190-82, District Court, Laramie County where among other things, he managed over a dozen real property assets worth tens of millions of dollars and recovered and liquidated a 1972 Lamborghini Miura SV and a 1991 Ferrari F40 valued collectively at approximately $3.2 million to fund the receivership estate’s operations. Successfully persuaded Wyoming court to hold interested party in criminal contempt, resulting in settlement.

Prior to joining Guidepost, Bradley was an associate attorney in an international law firm’s white-collar investigations and financial institutions regulatory practices and co-manager of its Dodd-Frank Act financial regulatory reform working group. Bradley had brief stints in the SEC’s Offices of International Affairs and Ethics Counsel, where he focused on international enforcement, provided technical assistance to foreign regulators, and advised on the development of the Commission’s insider trading compliance program.

Bradley is a recipient of Michigan State University’s Distinguished Young Alumni Award from where he holds a Juris Doctor, cum laude and a Bachelor of Arts degrees in political theory and constitutional democracy with a specialization in political economy from its James Madison College. Additionally, he holds a Master of Law degree from Georgetown University Law Center which recognized him for “extraordinary academic performance” in International White-Collar Crime. He received the Federal Bar Association’s Edward Rakow Scholarship Award for academic excellence in corporate and securities law.

Did You Know?

Brad first met Guidepost Chairman Bart Schwartz in 2011 when he interviewed Bart to monitor one of his law firm’s clients. Four years later, Bart asked Brad to work with him on the SAC Capital Monitorship. Eleven years later, Brad is a Guidepost SMD.