Insights

Washington – February 27, 2023: Global Investigations Review has named Crowell & Moring’s Investigations and White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement groups to its prestigious GIR 100 list, an annual guide to the world’s leading cross-border investigations practices. Based on extensive research, GIR selects 100 firms from around the world that it deems most able to handle sophisticated cross-border government-led and internal investigations. This is the eighth consecutive year that Crowell & Moring has made the list.

Washington – February 28, 2022: Crowell & Moring is pleased to announce that counsel Monty Cooper has been selected as a member of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity’s 2022 class of Fellows. In addition, associate Andrea Charles and counsel Kayvan M. Ghaffari have been named to the LCLD 2022 class of Pathfinders.

On October 24, 2023, Gurbir S. Grewal, Director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (“SEC”) Division of Enforcement, provided a preview of the agency’s enforcement outlook against Chief Compliance Officers (“CCO”) in the upcoming year.  His remarks highlight the continued importance of compliance programs (and continued focus on the part of regulators on those programs), but also make clear that SEC enforcement actions targeting behavior on the part of CCOs will continue to be rare.

The Court of International Trade recently denied a motion to add a defendant’s criminal attorney to a protective order in a parallel civil regulatory case, teeing up key Fifth and Sixth Amendment concerns. 

On May 5, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC” or “Commission”) announced a record-setting whistleblower award of nearly $279 million.  This award more than doubles the SEC’s previous $114 million record-setter, issued in October 2020.

The program covers the preservation of the attorney client privilege during internal investigations and will examine both the basics of privilege law and best practices for preserving it in the U.S. Attendees will find this program very beneficial for members of the compliance, internal audit, and legal functions.