KERI CURTIS AXEL
Partner; Co-Leader, White-Collar Criminal
& Regulatory Defense Practice Group
Waymaker LLP
One of California’s leading white-collar lawyers, Keri Curtis Axel defends clients in criminal and regulatory investigations and handles high-stakes civil and criminal litigation in courts and in arbitration. A former federal prosecutor and an enforcement attorney with the Securities & Exchange Commission, she is a first-chair trial lawyer and an experienced appellate attorney who has argued in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals nine times.
Axel defends Yasiel Puig, the former Dodgers star, who has been accused of false statements to federal investigators, and Roman Storm, a software = developer who developed the crypto platform “Tornado Cash,” against a cutting-edge prosecution in which the US Attorney in the Southern District of New York is attempting to apply criminal laws to software development.
