Monitorships and Independent Counsel
Overview
Courts and agencies commonly appoint monitors and independent counsel to oversee companies' compliance with consent decrees and other significant government laws and activity. Crowell & Moring lawyers are frequently selected to serve as monitors.
Our monitorship practice results from our extensive prior service in top government positions, coupled with our substantial experience in guiding clients through high-profile internal investigations, enforcement matters, and government inquiries. We have vast experience helping clients build compliance into their business processes so that best practices become routine—not a special project or an additional burden. We establish compliance programs, draft codes of conduct and policies, and provide training—and have done so for over 200 corporate clients in the broadest array of industries. We also have experience in evaluating and monitoring the implementation of remedial measures and internal controls. We know how to serve as monitors because we have been there, and because we monitor as part of our daily service to clients.
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Global Investigations Review has named Crowell & Moring’s Investigations and White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement groups to this year’s GIR 100, an annual guide to the world’s leading cross-border investigations practices.
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- Magyar Telekom plc—After two years of successful self-monitoring, including providing the U.S. Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission with annual compliance review reports, the company’s FCPA deferred prosecution agreement was terminated and charges dismissed with prejudice.
- Ralph Lauren Corporation—Two years of successful self-monitoring, including providing the U.S. Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission with annual compliance review reports, through the expiration of the company's FCPA non-prosecution agreement.
- New York City District Council of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, and its Benefit Funds—Independent monitor overseeing the anticorruption efforts and certain other operations.
- Major multinational oil and gas exploration and production company—Counsel to the independent corporate monitor as part of the company’s FCPA deferred prosecution agreement.
- U.S. government construction contractor performing classified contracts—Monitored corporate integrity and compliance efforts, and supervised revised ethics and compliance policies and procedures.
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Firm News | 3 min read | 12.05.24
Crowell & Moring Notches Tenth Straight Year on “GIR 100”
Global Investigations Review has named Crowell & Moring’s Investigations and White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement groups to this year’s GIR 100, an annual guide to the world’s leading cross-border investigations practices.
Press Coverage | 03.27.23
Press Coverage | 11.10.22
Monitor Finds UAW Curry Slate Candidates Violated Election Rules
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Union Monitors
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The Guide to Monitorships - Third Edition, Global Investigations Review
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Firm News | 3 min read | 12.05.24
Crowell & Moring Notches Tenth Straight Year on “GIR 100”
Global Investigations Review has named Crowell & Moring’s Investigations and White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement groups to this year’s GIR 100, an annual guide to the world’s leading cross-border investigations practices.
Press Coverage | 03.27.23
Press Coverage | 11.10.22
Monitor Finds UAW Curry Slate Candidates Violated Election Rules