Lexpat is proud to announce that Wayne Raabe has joined our team as a Senior Consultant.  Wayne’s extraordinary career public service included years as a United States Coast Guard officer before becoming a prosecutor and then Senior Executive with the Department of Justice, and a senior official with the Department of Defense.  He will be supporting clients with his wealth of expertise including in the areas of complex international investigations, mutual legal assistance, and extraditions; maritime law, governance, and security; and government relations.

Lexpat’s Managing Director and head of private advisory services, Adam Pearlman, lauded Wayne’s expertise.  “We’re thrilled that Wayne is joining Lexpat’s elite team of lawyers and advisors.  His record of leadership in international investigations and law enforcement operations, anti-money laundering, anti-corruption, and the maritime sector is simply remarkable.”

Chief Operating Officer and head of Lexpat’s public sector services Jane Ellen Paschall added, “Wayne is an incredibly well-respected team-builder, both domestically and internationally.  He’s a true leader and an educator, and knows what it takes to build partners’ security and rule of law capacity.”

Wayne’s decorated Coast Guard career included both operational and legal tours of duty, including as an Executive Officer at sea and as an Assistant Division Chief for maritime and international law.  He also served multiple tours as a defense counsel, as well as a trial judge.

As DOJ’s long-serving Principal Deputy Chief of the Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Section (NDDS), Wayne played a key role combatting drug trafficking and transnational organized crime.  He supervised litigation in the most significant narcotics trafficking and money laundering cases in the world, helped to formulate U.S. counternarcotics policy, coordinated with U.S. and international law enforcement, intelligence, and other authorities to disrupt and dismantle drug cartels and other criminal organizations, also oversaw NDDS’s Maritime and Special Operations units.  Among many other leadership roles, Wayne was the Department’s lead representative to the White House’s National Security Council policy committee on maritime security and was the lead U.S negotiator for the maritime boarding amendments to the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Maritime Navigation (the SUA Convention).

Wayne then served as the “J9” – the Director of the Interagency Partnering Directorate – of United States European Command (EUCOM).  In that role, Wayne led the command’s broader civil-military work, integrating nearly a dozen non-DoD agencies, as well as academics, NGOs, international organizations, and private sector partners with a “Whole of Society” approach to strategic partnerships that support peace and stability in Europe, as well as portions of Asia and the Middle East, and the Arctic and Atlantic oceans.

Lexpat Global Services is a team of counselors, consultants, and capacity-builders.  We feature elite lawyers, consultants, investigators, and program officers serving private industry and public sector clients, especially those working at the intersection legal and security issues.  To learn more about Lexpat’s team and services, visit www.lexpatglobal.com.  To contact Wayne or any of our experts, email [email protected].