With the increasing globalization of criminal law enforcement and the expanding extraterritorial application of U.S. criminal laws, Hughes Hubbard is uniquely positioned to assist our foreign and domestic clients in addressing criminal issues in the United States and abroad. Our white collar crime experts represent domestic and international corporations and individuals in criminal investigations and cases involving alleged insider trading, conspiracy, criminal antitrust, money-laundering, Medicare fraud, securities fraud, customs fraud and other federal crimes.
We regularly represent targets, subjects and witnesses in federal and state grand jury investigations; conduct internal investigations of suspected criminal activity for major corporate clients; and design corporate compliance programs to assure corporate responsiveness to the most recent DOJ money-laundering, medicare fraud and antitrust initiatives. We also represent individuals and entities in investigations and enforcement proceedings before the Securities and Exchange Commission, the National Association of Securities Dealers, the New York Stock Exchange and the New York State Attorney General's Office. Most significantly, we try cases, including two lengthy federal criminal jury trials in the last two years.
Members of our white collar crime practice have significant prior government experience. They include a former Deputy Chief of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, a former co-chief of the Major Crimes Unit of that Office, a former prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and a former Chief Counsel to the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Through Hughes Hubbard’s offices in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Miami and Paris, our clients receive a global defense from lawyers with local expertise. Our specific experience includes matters involving:
- criminal antitrust
- criminal tax
- foreign corrupt practices
- government contracting fraud
- money-laundering
- Medicare fraud
- securities fraud
We also offer advice on the interpretation and application of the federal sentencing guidelines to assist corporations in devising appropriate compliance programs and reducing potential criminal exposure. In addition, our attorneys have expertise in managing the collateral consequences of criminal prosecution, including debarment, civil and criminal forfeiture, international extradition and parallel civil litigation.
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