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Davis Polk provides advice on a broad range of compliance and advisory issues, including those associated with anticorruption laws, economic sanctions, anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing laws, competition laws and many other regulatory regimes. Many of our current and former lawyers have held prominent positions with law enforcement agencies and financial regulators, including the SEC, DOJ, Treasury, FDIC, OFAC and CFTC.

Our lawyers help clients anticipate and comply with the evolving and heightened standards of government regulators. We routinely review, draft and advise clients on their codes of conduct and business ethics policies, as well as the design of implementing procedures. We have extensive experience helping clients implement effective compliance procedures, closely tailored to their particular business and associated legal risks. In conducting a compliance review, Davis Polk lawyers work closely with management and in-house counsel to identify issues that pose the highest risks for potential violations and to review relevant business practices, including those of agents of the company or foreign subsidiaries, to determine whether the practices need to be changed.


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Awards and Rankings

  • “White Collar Group of the Year” – Law360 2013


  • Davis Polk’s “stellar white-collar group” has consistently been ranked 1st tier among New York law firms in white collar crime and government investigations in Chambers USA 2005-2013.


  • 1st tier among New York law firms in white collar crime and government investigations matters – Legal 500 U.S. 2007-2012: “Standing at the vanguard of the white-collar bar for many years, ‘wonderful firm’ Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP is justifiably regarded as ‘one of the pre-eminent criminal defense and investigations practices in the US’.”


  • Ranked nationally among U.S. law firms – Chambers USA: Davis Polk’s FCPA Group “impresse[s] the market with its export controls and FCPA expertise... It has been involved in some of the most significant DOJ, SEC and international corruption investigations and advises clients on all facets of FCPA compliance.”


  • “[Davis Polk] has tremendous credibility before the regulators and is seen by clients as a go-to-firm, in particular for high-profile government-led investigations.” – Legal 500 U.S. 2011