Due Diligence + Corporate Compliance

To ensure compliance with the myriad regulatory and legal requirements businesses face every day, and to fulfill third-party demands and due diligence responsibilities associated with mergers, acquisitions, and other transactions, they require comprehensive, proactive, preventive, and defensive legal strategies and solutions. When whistleblower allegations arise, clients likewise need immediate, coordinated legal counsel capable of defending their interests on numerous fronts simultaneously.

Our white collar practice provides full-spectrum legal services to U.S. and non-U.S. companies, helping them develop, implement, and manage comprehensive, effective, risk-based compliance programs. These programs help our clients detect, prevent and punish unlawful activity and other misconduct by employees, officers, directors, and business partners. We also work with clients to conduct appropriate reviews of whistleblower allegations and to take appropriate action.

Our seasoned white collar and government investigations attorneys have extensive U.S. enforcement agency and compliance experience. Before joining the firm, members of our team have variously served as federal and state prosecutors, as a Fortune 10 company compliance officer, and as leaders of private-sector compliance program “best practices” initiatives. We have represented businesses from a broad range of industries before international, federal, state, and local agencies, helping ensure that their compliance policies and procedures meet applicable regulatory, enforcement, and industry standards.

To help clients conduct internal corporate investigations and respond to government agency investigations, we assemble cross-disciplinary teams capable of developing risk-based policies and procedures that proactively address our clients’ legal compliance and defense needs — all without losing sight of our clients’ core values and strategic business goals. Our attorneys have firsthand experience leveraging such compliance programs, internal policies and due diligence activities to help limit or avoid prosecution, mitigate fines and penalties, and prevent reputational harm.