White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement
For more than twenty five years, Crowell & Moring's White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement team has successfully defended and counseled companies, partnerships, boards of directors, elected officials, members of management and other individual clients around the world in connection with all manner of government investigations, criminal trials, regulatory enforcement actions and internal investigations.
Our team has a wide-reaching international practice, consisting of highly experienced attorneys in the firm's London, Los Angeles, Orange County, New York, and Washington, D.C. offices. We bring to bear on our clients' representations the rare blend of insight, experience and judgment that can only be gleaned from a team that includes lifelong defense lawyers, including former Assistant Federal Defenders, as well as former prosecutors and enforcement attorneys from the Department of Justice, the Office of Independent Counsel, United States Attorney's Offices, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office.
Our experience includes defending investigations by grand juries, the Department of Justice, the FBI, the SEC, the CFTC, the IRS, FINRA, congressional committees, independent and special counsels, federal agency inspectors general, state attorney generals as well as the Serious Fraud Office, Financial Services Authority and Crown Prosecution Service in the United Kingdom. We also are adept at handling parallel multinational investigations involving the FCPA and export controls, where the credentials and bona fides of the former government officials from both sides of the Atlantic among our ranks facilitates the necessary coordination with authorities and local counsel in other countries.
While we strive to resolve government investigations as quickly and favorably as possible, we also have the depth and experience to take any case to trial. We have an enviable record of success and we have an equally strong appellate track record.
Finally, we understand that the business imperatives of our clients, as well. We place a premium on balancing the need for excellent and thorough service with the equally vital need to maintain an appropriate sense of proportion and efficiency. In the end, we understand that for a business to remain compliant, it must remain in business, and we conduct internal investigations and defend government investigations with each of these concepts imbedded in both our philosophy and our practices.