State AG Investigations & Enforcement
McGuireWoods has significant experience counseling some of the nation’s biggest companies, including financial institutions and consumer lenders, audit firms, local governments, national retail and hospitality chains, and leading technology platforms, through their interactions with attorneys general. As the top law enforcement officers in each state, AGs leverage unique criminal, civil and consumer protection authority against companies and entire industries. Given our depth of knowledge and experience, our firm is particularly well-suited to represent clients in these matters.
McGuireWoods attorneys help clients develop comprehensive strategies regarding inquiries and investigations from state and federal regulators, including state attorneys general, and act proactively, leveraging relationships with legislative and administrative bodies at every level. We provide clients with the value and convenience of “one-stop shopping,” offering integrated legal, public policy development, lobbying and issue advocacy services. A thoroughly bipartisan team, we have deep experience across the nation in courtrooms and the halls of government.
Our experienced lawyers spot underlying issues for businesses and counsel them through enforcement activity, often before formal subpoenas are even issued. We have extensive experience across all areas of interaction with AGs — from criminal defense to civil and administrative actions, from letter response to trial. Whether a company receives a seemingly innocuous inquiry letter or finds itself answering a suit brought by a transcontinental coalition of AGs, McGuireWoods attorneys bring a unique perspective informed by decades of public service and successful defenses of corporations in all manner of AG matters across the country. For example, our attorneys have successfully represented companies in the financial services, consumer finance, technology, retail, hotels, and leisure, healthcare, and professional and public services industries.
Our team includes high-level veterans of multiple attorney general administrations — spanning the country and political parties — who know how key decisions are made about what to investigate, what to settle and what to litigate. This team regularly works with AGs from across the country, including multi-state coalitions, on investigations and in civil and criminal matters.
Ranked nationally for corporate crime and investigations.
– Chambers USA
Ranked among the world’s top 100 firms for five consecutive years.
– Global Investigations Review 100
Twice named a “White Collar Practice Group of the Year.”
– Law360
Ranked nationally for corporate investigations and white collar criminal defense.
– The Legal 500 United States
