White Collar Defense & Government Investigations

Energy and Sustainability

• Represented contractor in NTSB and grand jury investigation in connection with Merrimack Valley gas explosions, that resolved with no charges brought against the contractor.
• Represented the owners of a New England energy facility in connection with an industrial accident and subsequent Chemical Safety Board investigation as well as an OSHA investigation, congressional hearings, and insurance, lender, and investor fallout.
• Provided FCPA advice and defense representation regarding environmental waste disposal payments in China for a clean tech company.

Healthcare

• Representing a leading multinational health technology company in a wide-ranging DOJ investigation and related internal investigation involving alleged False Claims Act violations.
• Represented full-service, acute-care public hospital in federal investigation related to unlawful claims for reimbursement of healthcare services in violation of the federal False Claims Act.
• Represented a significant New York City medical practice in a False Claims Act criminal and civil investigation.
• Represented a Fortune 50 company under investigation by the federal government and 24 state attorneys general for alleged violations of the False Claims Act regarding drug pricing matters. Despite two years of grand jury proceedings, we persuaded the government agencies not to pursue any criminal charges and subsequently negotiated a favorable civil settlement.
• Representing the lead defendant in a major health care fraud indictment in the Eastern District of New York.
• Designed a global FCPA compliance training and certification program for an international pharmaceutical company.
• Represented the CEO of a Fortune 50 company in a federal political corruption investigation. While other officers of the company were indicted (and subsequently acquitted), no charges were ever brought against our client.
• Retained to represent one of the nation’s largest health care providers that had received a criminal target letter from the US Attorney’s Office and persuaded the government to drop the case entirely against the client.

Individual

• Representing a manager of a global leader in advertising technology company charged in a criminal federal wire fraud conspiracy and CAN-SPAM Act indictment.
• Represented a former biotechnology company certified public accountant in SEC investigation in Central District of California alleging insider trading. Successfully negotiated and obtained a favorable settlement on behalf of the client.
• Helped to secure dismissal on behalf of a former Saudi intelligence official in a case brought by the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund and its subsidiaries, alleging our client embezzled billions of dollars.

Insurance and Financial Services

• Represented Registered Investment Advisor in DOJ investigation.
• Represented a senior, long time investment bank executive who was at the center of the bank’s conduct during the subprime crisis. We led the executive’s interactions with Congress, the SEC, the DOJ, the FCIC, and in private lawsuits - all of which received widespread media coverage.
• Represented a high-level executive at a major New York hedge fund that was under investigation for the way it handled investments in small public companies that arose through reverse mergers.
• Representing a former high level official of a major bank under investigation for trading in its Russian branch.
• Representing the lead defendant in a major securities manipulation scheme indicted in the Eastern District of New York.
• Won dismissal of an action against a significant New York bank involving hundreds of millions of dollars of claims under the Anti-Terrorism Act and the Alien Tort Claims Act.
• Currently representing an individual in connection with ongoing global investigations into 1MDB.
• Represented and defended a bank in connection with allegations of corrupt payments to foreign officials in China and the Philippines associated with bank enterprises in both jurisdictions. Successfully resolved all FCPA issues.
• Spearheaded anti-corruption due diligence for US asset managers, overseeing privileged work by outside forensic/investigative services providers, in multiple significant potential investments by current and former senior foreign political figures and/or their relatives.
• Conducted an internal investigation into alleged FCPA violative payments made in Cuba by US-related investors in Cuban/American import businesses.

Life Sciences

• Representing a multi-asset, clinical stage biopharmaceutical company in compliance and Foreign Corrupt Practice Act related matters regarding the donation of clinical studies equipment to its international partners.
• Representing three former sales employees of one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world in a whistleblower lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New York involving allegations of kickbacks in violation of the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute.

Real Estate, Construction, Hospitality & Infrastructure

• Represented the head of a construction company pertaining to his sentencing for failure to abide by disadvantaged business enterprise requirements. Despite sentencing guidelines that called for almost three years in jail, we successfully prevented a jail sentence and obtained probation for our client.
• Represented a large national construction and design company in connection with inquiries by the New York County District Attorney’s Office and the Port Authority of New York.

Retail and Consumer Products

• Represented CFO indicted in a $25 million fraud.
• Employed civil RICO statute in the United States to leverage a settlement regarding alleged industrial plant payments in Ukraine.
• Defeated price gouging case brought by the NY AG’s Office against national distributor and its CEO. AG claimed our clients had charged excessive prices for cleaning products during the COVID-19 pandemic. After an expedited proceeding and a summary hearing, our clients were fully vindicated and the case dismissed, in the only successful defense under this statute’s over 40-year history.

Sports and Entertainment

• Represented Ruth Madoff in a variety of regulatory and investigative forums and lawsuits relating to Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.
• Representing a senior executive of a publicly-traded global gaming (including sports betting) enterprise in connection with multi-country securities inquiries and class actions alleging stock manipulation.
• Represented an individual in an alleged sports gambling operation in a case where the government accused the group of running an illegal bookmaking operation, money laundering, and other activities.

Technology

• Secured a jury acquittal for the former CEO of a publicly-traded corporation charged with criminal tax evasion arising from an options backdating investigation.
• Conducted multiple FCPA investigations regarding allegations of cash for contracts payments in Eastern Europe and Russia for a major networking hardware manufacturer.

Transportation

• Represented the secretary treasurer of a union charged in federal district court with falsifying documents to assist the president of the union with a vote on union dues. The case, one of the first to be tried under the Sarbanes-Oxley obstruction statute was tried in United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and our client was acquitted.
• Obtained a favorable jury verdict in a California federal action involving fraud, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO), and False Claims Act claims in a government-funded transportation construction project.