Stephen J. Shine is currently the Chief Regulatory Counsel for Prudential Financial. He was previously the Senior Vice President and Senior Regulatory Counsel with Prudential Securities Inc. and Prudential Equity Group, LLC. where he was responsible for the case management and disposition of all regulatory matters. Prior to assuming those positions he supervised senior in-house litigators who were responsible for the defense of major claims against Prudential Securities and managed and supervised the resolution of major class actions filed against the firm. He is both a former state and federal prosecutor who was responsible for the prosecution of significant securities, commodities, bank fraud and FCPA cases nationwide. As a founding co-chair of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Anti-Money Laundering Committee he was the recipient of the Securities Industry Association Distinguished Leadership Award in 2003. He has lectured, moderated, and chaired numerous conferences on various regulatory issues sponsored by accounting, banking and securities trade associations, regulators and self regulatory organizations, and major colleges and universities worldwide.