Tom Best is an international investigations, enforcement defense and compliance lawyer, and a partner in the Investigations and White Collar Defense practice based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. He advises senior management and boards of directors on complex investigations, enforcement, compliance, and commercial issues arising under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other countries’ anti-corruption laws, economic sanctions and export controls, the U.S. securities laws, and other legal regimes affecting major multinationals’ operations.

Mr. Best has defended dozens of companies and individuals over the years before the U.S. Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and other countries’ authorities.  He routinely advises large corporate and financial institutions on compliance with economic and financial sanctions in high-value transactions.

Mr. Best is known for his practical, business-focused approach. His willingness to “roll up his sleeves” for clients has resulted in numerous declinations-of-prosecution from the U.S. Department of Justice, SEC and OFAC, and a strong track record of achieving innovative solutions, often working with regulators and enforcement agencies, to business problems presented by the complex and difficult sanctions and export control environment prevailing today.

• The Legal 500's International Trade: Customs, Export Controls and Economic Sanctions (2024)
• The Legal 500's Dispute Resolution – Economic Sanctions (2021)
• Recognized in Global Investigations Review’s “40 Under 40” List (2014)

• University of Michigan Law School, J.D. 2002, cum laude
  Associate Editor, Journal of International Law
• Princeton University, A.B., 1997, Economics