UB Greensfelder’s White Collar and Corporate Investigations attorneys successfully represent and defend corporations and individuals, including high-level executives, in a wide variety of complex federal and state investigations and prosecutions, regulatory matters, internal investigations, and related civil proceedings. Our lawyers have a strong background and tradition in solving problems and delivering excellent results for clients.
The defense of white collar criminal prosecutions and investigations requires experience and sophistication. Correctly and quickly assessing the risk of criminal exposure and available options is the difference between possible heavy criminal penalties and jail time or greatly reduced consequences, such as non-prosecution agreements, amnesty in criminal cartel cases, immunity, cooperation agreements, favorable plea agreements, and deferred prosecution agreements. Many times, the best results for our clients are achieved discretely, without publicity or fanfare, when we have convinced a federal or state prosecutor or regulatory enforcer to stand down and not charge or pursue an enforcement action against our client. Other times, the best results for our clients are achieved by defending at trial, where our lawyers excel. Knowing what to do, when to do it, and how prosecutorial decisions are made makes all the difference in defending white collar cases.
Our lawyers include former prosecutors for the U.S. Department of Justice, state Attorney General’s offices, and other regulatory agencies and associations, including the EPA, SEC, and FINRA. In their former careers with the government, our lawyers were responsible for building large, complex white collar cases from scratch and overseeing them through conclusion, from the investigative and grand jury phase, through plea agreement and indictment, through conviction, sentencing and appeal. Our lawyers have an understanding and appreciation for criminal and enforcement functions, including how and why prosecutorial and enforcement decisions are made. Our lawyers now use their finely honed skill set, including drawing upon their considerable law enforcement and government contacts, to vigorously defend corporations and individuals in a wide array of white collar areas, including:
- Antitrust (including criminal cartels)
- Anti-Money Laundering
- Conspiracy (criminal and civil)
- Economic espionage acts (trade secrets)
- Environmental violations and compliance
- Financial crimes
- Financial litigation services (including broker-dealer matters)
- FINRA
- Foreign Corrupt Practices Act matters (SEC and DOJ investigations)
- Forfeiture (criminal and civil)
- Grand jury
- Health care fraud
- Ponzi schemes
- Public corruption
- Procurement fraud
- Racketeering (RICO)
- Securities fraud and litigation
- Tax fraud and related offenses
Corporate Investigations
Criminal acts that occur in the corporate context require a prompt response. Our attorneys direct and conduct investigations at the request of company owners and executives, in-house counsel, and boards of directors. We prepare and execute swift investigative plans that ensure the integrity of the process and the evidence gathered. Our objective is to identify the source of criminal conduct and purge it.
Our attorneys are experienced in crafting compliance programs and in conducting preventive audits. In many cases, having a compliance program and conducting effective compliance audits may eliminate or mitigate internal and external risk. We draw on the wealth of experience within our firm to provide subject matter knowledge across a range of industries so that the compliance programs we prepare meet our clients’ specific needs.
When even the most robust preventive measures fail, we respond to the internal and external threats corporations encounter. We respond when rogue employees use company resources to enrich themselves. We also respond when external bad actors penetrate corporate security and put trade secrets, data and other competitively sensitive information at risk of exposure. Our attorneys quickly triage threats posed to our clients and work to eliminate them.
