Practice Areas: Government, Regulatory & Criminal Investigations

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Overview

A client looks to outside counsel for results. What separates one firm from another is the way it seeks, and whether it achieves, those results. McGuireWoods' Government, Regulatory and Criminal Investigations (GRCI) Department – composed of the SEC enforcement defense, white collar, internal investigations and international fraud/anti-corruption practice groups – has a track record of successful outcomes for clients in some of the most difficult and serious circumstances they have faced. We are focused on scalable, responsive approaches to clients’ issues that yield the best possible results for their businesses.

Depth of experience is the key. Our attorneys have extensive experience conducting audits, investigations and training throughout the United States and around the world, to resolve internal issues, defend external investigations, and establish and strengthen compliance programs.

We draw on the experience of our former prosecutors and regulators from numerous government agencies, but more importantly, we have a proven track record of achieving the results clients seek across substantive areas including FCPA, environmental enforcement, immigration enforcement, SEC and corporate compliance, internal investigations, False Claims Act, qui tam, congressional ethics and other inquiries. Our success is due in part to the fact that our attorneys know how to think like – and they have credibility with – federal and state prosecutors and regulators.

McGuireWoods Attorneys Previous Positions

• U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia
• DOJ Section Chief
• First Assistant U.S. Attorney
• Assistant U.S. Attorneys
• U.S. House of Representatives’ Counsel to the Committee on the Judiciary
• U.S. Department of Education’s Deputy General Counsel
• Special Counsel and Acting Deputy General Counsel to the FBI
• Assistant Attorney General in charge of the DOJ’s National Security Division
• Deputy Counsel to the President
• U.S. DOJ Task Force Attorney and Virginia Commonwealth’s Attorney
• State Attorneys General
• Attorneys for the SEC’s Division of Enforcement
• First Attorney of the Division of Enforcement of the PCAOB
• Assistant Director, Enforcement Department of NASD (n/k/a FINRA)

We represent clients involved in investigations brought by the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Department of State, Congress, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), various state attorneys general and other federal and state civil and criminal regulators. Our GRCI lawyers regularly represent corporate and individual clients facing internal audits or investigations; corporate compliance investigations; grand jury investigations; and other regulatory, administrative and criminal investigations.

In addition, GRCI attorneys work closely with the firm’s other practice groups and our subsidiary McGuireWoods Consulting LLC for additional substantive expertise, with the goal of preventing regulatory, law enforcement and internal inquiries and issues from becoming government investigations or criminal prosecutions. To that end, we regularly conduct internal investigations and audits, advise clients regarding establishing and overseeing compliance programs, and provide training to clients’ employees regarding all of the above issues.

Our GRCI attorneys have particular experience in investigations involving large volumes of documents, and they work closely with attorneys in our dedicated Discovery Counsel Services (DCS) practice. DCS's written protocols for interviewing, collecting, reviewing, analyzing and producing millions of pages of documents have resulted in best practices for the discovery phase of government inquiries and complex litigation that have been repeatedly tested and refined through application.