White Collar Crime and Compliance

Our lawyers have represented an increasing number of businesses and individuals in a growing variety of criminal and related civil and administrative matters before investigative commissions and through trial and appeal.

Our Corporate Compliance, Internal Investigations & White-Collar Crime Practice team counsels, advises and advocates for our clients who are facing investigations or subject to criminal charges throughout all phases of the process. Through governmental and regulatory investigations, we counsel clients through investigations, including responding to charges, advocating our client’s positions before relevant agencies and negotiating with prosecutors and regulators.

We have represented clients in the cases of parallel proceedings such as shareholders’ suits and other civil actions stemming from criminal charges or investigations. Our lawyers frequently handle client’s parallel proceedings and criminal proceedings simultaneously.

Our lawyers also have experience conducting internal corporate investigations for audit committees and boards and advising them on the myriad of complex and sometimes conflicting issues that arise. 

Examples of our lawyers’ experience include:

• Conducting an internal investigation related to corrupt practices on behalf of a US company in Saudi Arabia.
• Advising foreign clients on FCPA and OECD anti-bribery convention matters in the MENA region.
• Representing a client in one of Lebanon’s largest criminal investigation related to a shareholders’ dispute in the media sector.
• Acting for the plaintiff in a criminal complaint related to a large scale fraud in international financial brokerage services.
• Acting for a European company in a French criminal investigation in relation with the FOREX market.