Anti-Corruption & Internal Investigations

Our Anti-Corruption & Internal Investigations Practice Group represents many of the premier companies around the world, providing advice on issues spanning the full anti-corruption and compliance spectrum, including:

• Designing and implementing compliance programs
• Conducting internal investigations
• Representing companies before domestic and international regulators
• Serving as designated compliance monitors
• Counselling companies subject to post-resolution obligations

The team has conducted investigations in more than 90 countries involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other anti-corruption laws, resolved investigations and won landmark decisions for clients before U.S. and international authorities, and has served as compliance monitors approved by the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.K. Serious Fraud Office, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and the United Nations.  

We recognize the sensitivity and urgency of our clients’ matters as well as the discretion they require. We work in small, highly experienced and mobile groups that can be deployed rapidly to meet our clients’ needs. Lawyers in our team include former senior government enforcement officials, corporate compliance counsel, foreign-trained attorneys and certified public accountants. We serve our global clients through our offices in the U.S. and Paris, as well as through our cooperation agreement with Saud Advogados in Brazil and our longstanding relationships with leading local firms in countries across the world.