Eddie is a member of the firm’s White Collar + Government Investigations team. He focuses his practice on conducting high-stakes internal investigations and defending leading financial institutions facing regulatory scrutiny from government and industry regulators including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

Eddie works closely with clients at all stages of the government enforcement process. He also represents companies and individuals in responding to grand jury and third-party subpoenas and preparing for trial and grand jury testimony.

Eddie maintains an active pro bono practice and represents pro bono clients in criminal expunction matters. As part of his work, Eddie serves as a Charlotte Triage Pro Bono Champion and facilitates expunction eligibility determination clinics with the Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy. He was recently selected by the firm as a pro bono ambassador to facilitate pro bono opportunities for attorneys in our Charlotte office.

Before joining the firm, Eddie served as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Frederick P. Stamp, Jr. in the Northern District of West Virginia.

Prior to clerking, Eddie graduated Order of the Coif from the West Virginia University College of Law. As an undergraduate at Washington & Jefferson College, Eddie was a college baseball All-American. He was inducted into the Washington & Jefferson College Athletic Hall of Fame as a member of the Class of 2023.

• Coordinated an internal investigation into allegations of employee misconduct at a major financial institution involving more than 700 employee interviews over a short period in response to demands from banking regulators.
• Conducted an internal investigation into a financial institution’s check processing functions related to delayed customer payments and allegations of employee misconduct.
• Defended a major financial institution in enforcement actions brought by the DOJ, SEC, and multiple state attorneys general.
• Advised a major financial institution in responding to an enforcement inquiry from the OCC.
• Investigated allegations of money laundering for a national bank, including the evaluation of internal BSA/AML policies and procedures.
• Represented witnesses in a high-profile federal criminal trial and prepared witnesses for grand jury testimony.

• Inductee, Washington & Jefferson College Athletic Hall of Fame, Class of 2023
• Recipient, NCAA Student-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship
• Recipient, Patrick Duffy Koontz Award for leadership, citizenship, and academic excellence, 2017
• Recipient, CALI Awards for Excellence: Contracts; Interviewing, Counseling and Negotiation; and Advanced Statutory Tort Substitutes
• All-American, American Baseball Coaches Association/Rawlings, Pitcher, 2016
• Recipient, Walter C. Cooper Athlete of the Year Award, 2017