Our criminal defense and investigation lawyers currently play leading roles in major enforcement and regulatory proceedings in areas including the subprime and financial markets crisis; the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA); anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance; stock-options backdating; healthcare fraud; and insider trading and market manipulation, among others.

A large part of our practice involves representing corporations, individuals, financial institutions and professional firms in non-public criminal and regulatory investigations and proceedings conducted by the DOJ, the SEC, the New York Attorney General’s Office, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, the NYSE Euronext, FINRA, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Reserve Bank, and numerous other U.S., state and foreign law enforcement and regulatory agencies.

For a more detailed description of our FCPA practice, click here.

• We represented a former senior executive of British defense contractor BAE Systems in the much-publicized investigations by the U.S. and U.K. governments into alleged corruption violations by that company.
  
  
• We represent Con Edison, the New York utility company, in connection with investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice into allegations that Con Ed employees received kickbacks from contractors in exchange for the approval of inflated and fraudulent payments.
  
  
• We represent Intesa Sanpaolo, a major European bank, in parallel criminal and civil investigations by the Manhattan District Attorney, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury regarding alleged violations of U.S. sanctions against Iran.
  
  
• We represented a major financial institution in connection with a DOJ criminal investigation into its dollar-clearing activities, OFAC compliance procedures and other Bank Secrecy Act compliance matters.
  
  
• We represented four companies in connection with a number of federal and state “pay to play” investigations relating to the management of state pension fund assets.
  
  
• We represented Patriot Coal in connection with an investigation into safety practices by the House Committee on Education and Labor. 
  
  
• We represented a major Asian industrial conglomerate in connection with a criminal investigation by the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, involving allegations of obstruction of justice and other potential crimes. 
  
  
• We represent multiple broker-dealers, hedge funds and other financial institutions in an array of investigations relating to short selling, including SEC and DOJ investigations into short sales of financial institutions' securities at critical points during the financial crisis.
  
  
• We represented Pfizer in the successful global resolution of federal and state investigations into the marketing of Neurontin.
  
  
• We represented CVS Caremark (CVS) in a DOJ investigation into business relationships between CVS and certain Rhode Island State citizen-legislators. In 2008, a federal jury acquitted two former CVS executives of all charges arising out of one of those relationships. No action was taken against CVS.
  
  
• We have represented a number of law firms in connection with varied criminal and regulatory investigations. For example, we successfully negotiated a non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York in connection with its investigation with the IRS into tax opinions provided by our client, former law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist.
  
  
• We regularly represent senior executives at hedge funds in connection with a variety of federal and state criminal and regulatory matters. These matters have included, among others, the New York State Attorney General's investigation relating to the New York State Pension Fund, and various insider trading investigations.
  
  
• We represented a Special Committee of the Board of WellCare in its investigation into matters raised in an investigation by certain federal and state agencies.
  
  
• We represent a major accounting firm in connection with multiple government investigations relating to stock options backdating by its audit clients.