White Collar, Internal Investigations and Corporate Governance

As counsel to national and international business organizations and executives for more than 50 years, the lawyers in our White Collar, Internal Investigations and Corporate Governance practice provide the highest quality of legal service in high-stakes areas of government investigations, litigation, and corporate compliance matters.

Qualified Trial Lawyers, Effective Business Counsel

Our White Collar, Internal Investigations and Corporate Governance practice has achieved a national reputation for helping clients succeed in an increasingly complex business environment.

We represent corporations, senior corporate executives, and public officials in a full range of proceedings and investigations, and conduct sensitive internal investigations for leading companies in virtually every industry. We have served as counsel in widely publicized white collar cases, and have successfully achieved resolutions for clients in numerous other sensitive matters while avoiding publicity.

Our experience is broad-based and draws on the knowledge of our lawyers, including a number of former federal and state prosecutors and attorneys with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Many of our former prosecutors and regulators served in supervisory positions within the U.S. Department of Justice.

As experts in criminal defense and regulatory enforcement, our understanding of the way that government investigators, regulators, and prosecutors build cases allows us to head off or shorten investigations and avoid liability where possible. We have maintained relationships with former colleagues who have remained in government, while effectively advocating for our clients. Where litigation or trial is inevitable, our depth of courtroom experience sets us apart from our competitors, and allows us to guide and defend our clients with confidence and skill.

Scope of our White Collar, Internal Investigations and Corporate Governance Practice

Our White Collar, Internal Investigations and Corporate Governance practice works regularly with our partners, who are knowledgeable in areas such as:

• antitrust
• banking
• employment
• finance
• government contracts
• health care
• securities
• tax

This coordinated approach helps us assist our clients in effectively and efficiently achieving the most favorable results.

We are retained to defend companies and their senior executives in an array of contexts, including against charges of:

• accounting fraud
• antitrust violations
• commercial bribery and kickbacks
• commodities fraud
• environmental violations
• Foreign Corrupt Practice Act violations
• health care fraud
• procurement and government contract fraud
• securities fraud
• tax offenses

We assist our clients at every stage of a matter. We provide and design corporate compliance and internal control reviews and audits in order to reduce the risk of regulatory investigations and we conduct internal investigations of potential wrongdoing on a timely and discrete basis, helping clients win credibility with law enforcement and regulatory officials. Such an approach often minimizes a company’s exposure. And, where a client’s objective is to be vindicated at trial or to obtain a favorable settlement or plea, our practice’s vast trial experience consistently helps achieve the desired results.