Government investigations and enforcement actions are among the most consequential matters a company or individual can face – they can be detrimental to your business, leadership, and reputation. From prevention through defense, our lawyers help you navigate government scrutiny, partnering with you to manage risk in high-stakes investigations, enforcement actions, and parallel proceedings.

Our white-collar defense and government investigations team includes dozens of former senior officials from key US enforcement agencies, including the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). We instinctively understand how these agencies operate, allowing us to anticipate government strategies and shape yours accordingly.

Our global team of more than 60 lawyers defends companies, boards of directors, executives, and senior leaders in complex white-collar defense and investigations – including parallel proceedings across multiple venues:

• Government investigations (criminal and civil)
• Internal investigations and board-led inquiries
• Regulatory enforcement actions and proceedings (federal, state, and international)
• Criminal and civil defense and proceedings
• Cross-border and multi-jurisdictional matters
• Compliance and risk management

We coordinate across agencies and jurisdictions to ensure a consistent, strategic defense, helping to reduce risk, avoid conflicting positions, and strengthen outcomes.

Our team also brings deep experience in emerging and highly regulated areas, including healthcare and digital assets like cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). We help you navigate the nuanced regulatory frameworks that govern these sectors.

To stay ahead of potential investigations and enforcement actions, our lawyers work with you to strengthen compliance programs and identify risks early. Through internal investigations, responses to government inquiries and disclosures, and ongoing advisory support, we help you build processes designed to reduce enforcement exposure.

Our white-collar defense and government investigations team combines insider perspective with practical, business-focused guidance. We guide you through consequential government scrutiny, helping you mitigate risk, manage uncertainty, preserve business continuity, and protect your reputation.

Effective anticorruption compliance is critical to any company operating internationally. We regularly conduct internal investigations of reported concerns under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other anti-bribery laws to determine the veracity of allegations and to advise companies on responding effectively, including taking steps to reduce opportunities for future misconduct. We also defend companies and individuals in government enforcement and regulatory investigations by authorities in the United States and other countries.

We leverage our investigations and defense experience to assist clients in developing effective compliance programs and with appropriate compliance policies, procedures and training designed to enhance rather than disrupt business operations. We conduct global compliance risk assessments to help our clients make informed decisions on how to allocate compliance resources. We assist clients in conducting anticorruption due diligence and drafting strong contracts in cross-border deals and engagements of third-party representatives in order to mitigate the significant anticorruption risks those relationships present.

Our team includes former senior lawyers from the US Department of Justice (DOJ), US attorneys’ offices and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and individuals with deep in-house compliance, computer forensics and accounting experience, who collaborate to provide clients with the multidisciplinary experience and counsel that anticorruption matters often require.

Disputes can disrupt your operations, drain resources, and create uncertainty that affects business performance. Our litigation and dispute resolution lawyers help you navigate high-stakes disputes while reducing uncertainty, managing risk, and protecting your long-term business interests.

Our litigation and dispute resolution practice is comprised of experienced litigators and trial lawyers throughout the US and Europe. Working across practices, we provide integrated counsel tailored to complex disputes. By combining industry- and practice-specific knowledge with trial and appellate experience, we assess how disputes are likely to evolve and adapt your strategy accordingly.

Our lawyers guide you through every stage of a dispute – from early case assessment through litigation, trial, and appeal. With a dedicated appellate practice that has handled hundreds of appeals, including matters before the US Supreme Court, we approach cases with trial and appellate strategies aligned from the outset.

When litigation is not the most effective path forward, we partner with you to resolve disputes through arbitration and mediation. Our lawyers represent you in proceedings before the American Arbitration Association (AAA), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), and other arbitral bodies – helping you control risk, maintain confidentiality, and preserve business relationships.

In addition to commercial disputes, we advise you on sensitive investigations and government enforcement actions. We conduct internal investigations involving allegations of misconduct, compliance issues, and potential regulatory violations. We also represent you in proceedings involving the US Department of Justice (DOJ), the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), self-regulatory organizations, stock exchanges, and other state and federal agencies.

Our litigation and dispute resolution lawyers understand how disputes can affect your business and reputation. By combining litigation experience with practical business insight, we help you assess risk, reduce uncertainty, and determine the most effective path forward – whether through litigation or strategic resolution outside the courtroom.

What would you do if your company faced shareholder class action and derivative lawsuits, a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation or a corporate governance dispute? What if you encountered all three simultaneously? With the complexity of securities and governance law, you need a trusted partner by your side who understands both the legal and business implications of the issues that are raised by shareholders and regulators.

You can count on our dedicated securities & corporate governance litigation team to protect your legal and business interests in high-stakes cases and sensitive governance matters. Whether you face accusations of accounting irregularities, inadequate disclosures, breaches of fiduciary duty, market manipulation, insider trading or valuation irregularities, we are well-versed in litigating a broad range of these substantive issues to help you navigate it all.

With a nationwide network of collaborative practitioners, including a significant presence in New York, Delaware, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington DC, we’re able to support your needs regardless of jurisdiction. The group also includes dedicated corporate governance litigators, including in our Delaware office. Our experienced team includes Board and Fund Counsellors, trial lawyers, corporate governance litigators, former SEC regulators, federal prosecutors, in-house lawyers, and federal and Delaware law clerks. Additionally, our sophisticated counsel helps you manage any governance, disclosure, regulatory and trading issues.

We have an extensive and successful track record in shareholder class action litigation filed pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933 and Securities Exchange Act of 1934. In addition, our team regularly represents a wide range of clients in the investment management industry in connection with a myriad of complex commercial litigation and regulatory matters. Corporate clients include investment banks, accounting firms, hedge funds, funds of funds, and private equity funds, as well as their principals and portfolio companies. We also regularly represent individual issuers, directors and officers, Board Committees.

Because of this collective knowledge and passion for the practice, our team has achieved highly favorable results stemming from litigation, negotiated results, investigations, and enforcement proceedings.

More than ever, class action litigation presents a risk for your business as plaintiffs’ lawyers become more sophisticated and aggressive in filing class actions.

Our litigators provide comprehensive counseling advice to prevent and, as needed, defend your company at all stages of class actions, including pre-filing resolutions of threatened claims, successful motions to dismiss and to compel arbitration, summary judgment grants, class certification denials, class de-certification and successful appeals of class certification rulings. With decades of experience and a strong track record, our representation has spanned issues of antitrust and unfair competition, ERISA and RICO liability, consumer fraud, deceptive business practices and product liability. Our team regularly provides counseling to avoid class actions, and we have also successfully defeated class actions and negotiated favorable settlements. Clients seek our counsel particularly for our ability to address the unique issues raised in healthcare, tax, employment, securities and consumer class actions.

To help you succeed, we draw on our experience providing strategic and tactical counsel in the management of large and complex class action litigation. We practice regularly before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, serve as lead defense counsel in class actions spanning multiple state and federal jurisdictions, and represent clients in parallel government proceedings, including multi-state attorney general investigations and actions.

Our lawyers also are active in promoting various civil justice reform initiatives, including changes to the rules affecting class actions. We contributed to what ultimately became The Class Action Fairness Act and have helped secure enactment of state-level rules for interlocutory appeals of class certification rulings.

Boards, executives, HR departments and individual plan fiduciaries face enhanced scrutiny with respect to plans under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), as plaintiffs’ firms launch new and more sophisticated attacks. As an employer, you must be prepared to address claims appropriately by communicating effectively with your employees, navigating the nuances of insurance coverage and developing a robust risk-mitigation plan.

This is handled most effectively after thoroughly considering your business objectives, organizational culture and the needs of your workforce—all while maintaining compliance with the complex mandates of ERISA. That’s where we come in.

Our purpose-built ERISA team combines the skill sets of dedicated ERISA litigators, leading trusted advisors in employee benefits law and experienced trial lawyers to bring you a holistic approach to addressing threats against your employer sponsored benefit plans, designed to manage your risk profiles and provide vigorous litigation defense when necessary.

Our services include representing clients in:

• 401(k)/403(b) Fiduciary and Prohibited-Transaction Litigation involving allegations of excessive recordkeeping and administrative fees, imprudent investment options (including “stock drop” cases), conflicts of interest, monitoring claims, and general fiduciary mismanagement
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) Fiduciary and Prohibited-Transaction Litigation involving ESOP transactions, valuation disputes, questions of fiduciary prudence, and plan operation
• Department of Labor (DOL) Audits and Investigations of retirement plans, health & welfare plans, insurers, and other ERISA-related issues
• Health & Welfare Plan Disputes including fiduciary-breach claims for imprudent management of self-funded health plans, excessive fees/premiums, and conflicts of interest
• Discovery Disputes Involving Service Providers including non-fiduciary record-keepers, valuation advisors, legal advisors, auditors, claims handlers, and third-party administrators
• Claims for Benefits (Retirement, Health & Welfare, Life Insurance) including defined-contribution and defined-benefit plan claims and calculations, administrative issues, forfeiture and vesting issues, disputes over plan terms and participant communications, and document requests
• Plan Adoption, Amendment and Termination Issues including questions of “settlor” v. fiduciary conduct, post-termination fiduciary obligations, severance disputes, and corporate changes affecting ERISA plans
• Regulatory Controversies including disputes over assessments of penalties and liabilities, and compliance with statutes implicated by ERISA plans
• Federal Court, State Court and ADR Proceedings including the substantive and procedural differences among various tribunals

The firm’s experienced team represents insurers and reinsurers in high-profile disputes affecting the global insurance and reinsurance markets. Clients frequently call upon us to handle their largest and most contentious matters. Our insurance practice is ranked as a leading national practice by Benchmark Litigation and Legal 500 US; is recognized as a leading practice in Washington, DC, by Chambers USA; and is a recipient of The Financial Times’s “Innovative Lawyers” award for its historic settlement of 10,116 personal injury cases against the City of New York arising out of the rescue, recovery and debris removal operations at the former World Trade Center site on and after 9/11.

We also counsel insurance industry participants on a wide variety of insurance issues outside the dispute context, including the negotiation and placement of insurance programs and policies across most coverage lines; policy drafting and revision; claim submission and administration; insurance coverage analysis; transactional due diligence; internal and governmental investigations of brokers, insurers and other entities involving insurance issues; and unique issues relating to captive insurers and risk retention groups.

Our experience litigating and arbitrating complex insurance and reinsurance disputes informs and enhances our advice on this wide variety of insurance matters outside the dispute context, and vice versa. This breadth of experience gives us an advantage in helping our clients tackle efficiently and effectively their most complex insurance and reinsurance challenges.

Known for their award-winning settlement of over 10,000 September 11 personal injury claims against the City of New York in “the most complex case in the history of American mass tort litigation,” as well as for related insurance coverage litigation victories.

For more than a quarter of a century, the firm’s private client disputes team has been a full-time, full-service group of lawyers, representing fiduciaries and other parties involved in will contests, trust contests, will and trust construction and reformation suits, and other fiduciary litigation.

There is no substitute for experience, whether defending a fiduciary charged with personal exposure for handling an estate, trust or guardianship, representing a plaintiff in a will or trust contest, or navigating a fiduciary or non-fiduciary party through the pitfalls of guardianship or charitable and exempt organization litigation. From having handled hundreds of cases, we have a keen understanding of the critical issues involving the defense of executors and trustees as well as representing plaintiffs in will and trust contests and parties in guardianship controversy, including many complicated will and trust construction suits, charitable and exempt-entity qualification problems, and estate and fiduciary tax-related litigation.

We regularly develop and apply creative solutions that can help deliver timely, client-favorable resolutions to a dispute. Drawing on the resources of one of the world’s top-tier private client practice groups and a strong bench of first-chair lawyers in the firm’s litigation department, our team achieves consistently strong results for clients on cases involving wills, trusts and guardianships, as well as in charitable and exempt-organization litigation. Our dedicated litigators apply deep understanding of oftentimes complex and multifaceted legal issues to develop strong case strategy at the outset and deliver consistent results at a fair cost.

Appealing a trial court decision is a high-stakes and often precedent-setting scenario—with the potential for profound business ramifications. With the time and cost involved and the risk of unfavorable outcomes, “double or nothing” can often feel like your reality.

That’s where we come in.

Whether we’re drafting and arguing critical motions, or presenting arguments before the Supreme Court, our leading team of appellate lawyers can engage on your behalf at every level of the judicial system. Equipped to handle the highest stakes appeals in forums across the country, we provide clients the agile counsel necessary to tackle substantial, multilayered challenges. And we’re always thinking ahead on your behalf by ensuring all trial issues are properly preserved for appeal.

Members of our team have presented arguments before the Supreme Court more than a dozen times, including in each of the Court’s last five Terms. We have argued on behalf of our clients in all 13 federal courts of appeals, as well as state appellate courts throughout the country. These appeals have involved a wide array of constitutional, statutory and regulatory issues affecting antitrust, intellectual property, bankruptcy, employment matters, tax disputes and more.

To us, collaboration is key to success. To meet your goals, we work cooperatively alongside trial counsel and subject matter experts to ensure seamless representation.

Regardless of forum or industry, our goal is singular: to provide our clients the highest quality briefing and oral advocacy through the appellate process, which we strive to make as easy as possible.

Administrative law

We regularly litigate challenges to actions by administrative agencies that impact our clients. Lawsuits under the Administrative Procedure Act and related statutes are, in form and function, appeals from agency proceedings. We have broad experience handling administrative matters on diverse topics relating to manufacturing, energy, health care, high-skilled immigration, pharmaceuticals, technology and more.

Working collaboratively with our clients, we tell a persuasive, fact-based story that integrates legal theory with practical realities.

Constitutional litigation

When a government regulates our clients’ interests at the local, state or federal level, it is essential to consider innovative constitutional remedies. The First Amendment provides powerful protections for commercial speech. The Commerce Clause limits Congress’s authority, and it likewise restrains state and local government power to regulate outside their borders. The Fifth Amendment preserves essential property interests. Constitutional protections—sometimes familiar, sometimes arcane—can provide a path to victory.

We bring our unrivaled experience and creativity to bear on the most difficult legal challenges our clients face.

Accounting and consulting firms operate in regulated environments where reputation is critical to success – investigations, disputes, and regulatory scrutiny can erode client confidence. At the same time, firms face continuous pressure to adapt to evolving client demands. Our accounting lawyers help you balance growth and innovation with the legal, regulatory, and reputational considerations that shape the accounting and consulting industry.

Our accounting and consulting services team includes litigators, transactional lawyers, and regulatory defense lawyers across offices worldwide. Many of our lawyers served as senior in-house counsel at major accounting firms or held leadership roles within government agencies, so we understand the challenges firms face in managing risk while driving growth.

We help you navigate the regulatory frameworks, standards, and agencies that govern how your firm operates, including:

• US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
• Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)
• US Department of Justice (DOJ)
• Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) standards
• Privacy and cybersecurity laws
• Government contracts requirements
• Other US and international regulatory frameworks

Strategic transactions are often critical to expanding capabilities and strengthening your competitive position. Our lawyers help you structure and close high-value transactions, including acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, and alternative practice structures, as well as ESOP and other employee ownership transactions. We negotiate key terms, manage regulatory considerations, and navigate the governance and operational issues that can impact business value.

We also guide you through the responsible adoption of new technologies that can help you scale. Our accounting and consulting services team advises you on technology and operational risk management, governance frameworks, data use, vendor agreements, privacy and cybersecurity obligations, and AI-related compliance.

In an industry built on trust, confidentiality, and regulatory compliance, disputes can create significant exposure. Our lawyers represent you in investigations, arbitrations, and litigation involving trade secrets, whistleblower claims, employment matters, cybersecurity incidents, and professional malpractice claims. We develop legal strategies designed to minimize disruption, protect confidential information, and preserve client trust.

Our accounting lawyers understand the operational, regulatory, and commercial realities that shape your industry. We provide coordinated legal counsel that is aligned with your business goals, helping you manage risk and protect the reputation your business is built on.

Government investigations and enforcement actions are among the most consequential matters a company or individual can face – they can be detrimental to your business, leadership, and reputation. From prevention through defense, our lawyers help you navigate government scrutiny, partnering with you to manage risk in high-stakes investigations, enforcement actions, and parallel proceedings.

Our white-collar defense and government investigations team includes dozens of former senior officials from key US enforcement agencies, including the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). We instinctively understand how these agencies operate, allowing us to anticipate government strategies and shape yours accordingly.

Our global team of more than 60 lawyers defends companies, boards of directors, executives, and senior leaders in complex white-collar defense and investigations – including parallel proceedings across multiple venues:

• Government investigations (criminal and civil)
• Internal investigations and board-led inquiries
• Regulatory enforcement actions and proceedings (federal, state, and international)
• Criminal and civil defense and proceedings
• Cross-border and multi-jurisdictional matters
• Compliance and risk management

We coordinate across agencies and jurisdictions to ensure a consistent, strategic defense, helping to reduce risk, avoid conflicting positions, and strengthen outcomes.

Our team also brings deep experience in emerging and highly regulated areas, including healthcare and digital assets like cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). We help you navigate the nuanced regulatory frameworks that govern these sectors.

To stay ahead of potential investigations and enforcement actions, our lawyers work with you to strengthen compliance programs and identify risks early. Through internal investigations, responses to government inquiries and disclosures, and ongoing advisory support, we help you build processes designed to reduce enforcement exposure.

Our white-collar defense and government investigations team combines insider perspective with practical, business-focused guidance. We guide you through consequential government scrutiny, helping you mitigate risk, manage uncertainty, preserve business continuity, and protect your reputation.

Securities litigation remains an ongoing threat to businesses and financial institutions. Our SEC Enforcement group is composed of lawyers – including former senior members of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Enforcement – who possess substantial experience covering the full spectrum of securities enforcement activity. Our lawyers are knowledgeable about the SEC as an agency, including its rules, practices and customs, and maintain excellent relations with staff of the Enforcement Division and Office of General Counsel.

Clients rely on us to provide legal defense against securities litigation. We have secured favorable results stemming from investigations and enforcement proceedings, on behalf of public companies, their audit committees, officers, directors and senior management, as well as financial services firms, broker deals, investment advisors, hedge funds and accounting firms.

Our capabilities cover all aspects of SEC and other regulatory investigations, as well as parallel proceedings, private class actions and derivative litigation. We have been successful in deterring the SEC at various stages of enforcement investigations and frequently persuade the SEC either not to take any action against our clients or to reduce the nature and scope of the charges, including the elimination of fraud-based charges.

We have demonstrated success – civil and criminal – bringing trials to verdict in federal district courts and handling administrative proceedings at the federal and state level, and we possess substantial appellate experience in the appeal of administrative decisions to the SEC and to the US circuit courts.

As a testament to the mutual respect between our practice and the commission, we have successfully petitioned the SEC to appear as amicus curiae in favor of a client’s position in private securities litigation. The SEC also has called upon members of our group to act as receivers in the SEC civil enforcement proceedings. This cumulative experience differentiates us from the competition, ultimately providing clients with the best legal representation to achieve a favorable outcome.

Effective anticorruption compliance is critical to any company operating internationally. We regularly conduct internal investigations of reported concerns under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other anti-bribery laws to determine the veracity of allegations and to advise companies on responding effectively, including taking steps to reduce opportunities for future misconduct. We also defend companies and individuals in government enforcement and regulatory investigations by authorities in the United States and other countries.

We leverage our investigations and defense experience to assist clients in developing effective compliance programs and with appropriate compliance policies, procedures and training designed to enhance rather than disrupt business operations. We conduct global compliance risk assessments to help our clients make informed decisions on how to allocate compliance resources. We assist clients in conducting anticorruption due diligence and drafting strong contracts in cross-border deals and engagements of third-party representatives in order to mitigate the significant anticorruption risks those relationships present.

Our team includes former senior lawyers from the US Department of Justice (DOJ), US attorneys’ offices and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and individuals with deep in-house compliance, computer forensics and accounting experience, who collaborate to provide clients with the multidisciplinary experience and counsel that anticorruption matters often require.

Regulators are placing greater scrutiny on transactions, pricing practices, and competitor conduct. Our antitrust lawyers partner with you to pursue strategic growth opportunities while navigating regulatory pressure across global markets – helping you reduce the risk of business disruption, financial exposure, and reputational damage.

Our antitrust lawyers provide coordinated guidance across US and international competition laws. From strategic transactions and government investigations to commercial counseling and competition disputes, we work with you to manage antitrust risk wherever it arises.

We represent companies and individuals in antitrust investigations, enforcement actions, and competition disputes across US and international markets. Our lawyers advise you on matters involving the US Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), European Commission, EU Member State authorities, and other global competition agencies. We guide you through cartel investigations, class actions, civil antitrust litigation, and other regulatory proceedings tied to antitrust and competition law.

We also help you navigate merger clearance, foreign investment reviews, competition approvals, and regulatory filing strategies. We regularly serve as specialized antitrust counsel focused on merger clearance and competition approvals in complex domestic and cross-border transactions.

Competition laws influence your day-to-day business operations. To help you manage risk under evolving antitrust requirements, our lawyers advise you on pricing strategies, distribution structures, competitor collaborations, trade association conduct, exclusive arrangements, and compliance programs. By understanding how regulators evaluate competitive conduct, we guide you to make informed business decisions that reduce antitrust exposure.

Antitrust and competition issues frequently involve overlapping considerations. Our antitrust lawyers partner with you to manage competition risk across jurisdictions. Whether you are pursuing a transaction, structuring a commercial arrangement, or responding to a government investigation, we help you navigate regulatory scrutiny strategically while protecting your ability to compete and grow across global markets.

Healthcare organizations face increasing government scrutiny and private whistleblower activity, and frequent regulatory and policy changes—all of which pose greater financial and reputational costs than ever before. We offer unmatched guidance in navigating this complex legal environment to help our clients minimize risk while reaching their goals.

If an investigation or litigation is unavoidable, our healthcare defense team efficiently and effectively achieves the best possible result for our clients, so they can focus on what they do best—innovating and revolutionizing the healthcare industry.

We anticipate problems and proactively develop solutions.

We understand you have a business to run, and we can help by minimizing the distraction that comes with subpoenas, investigations and litigation. Our healthcare litigation, regulatory, compliance and transactional practitioners work together to address every aspect of a legal problem in a layered approach that includes leveraging our industry-leading experience, following trends and staying on top of ever-changing laws, rules and guidance.

Our unrivaled understanding of the business of operating hospitals, health systems, healthcare providers, life sciences and technology companies—down to the complicated reimbursement structure and rules, at both the federal and state level—is critical in a world where billing government payors is a source of constant scrutiny. And our skilled team works tirelessly to help clients on many fronts, including identifying and avoiding unnecessary risks, responding quickly and effectively in a crisis, efficiently defending any investigation or qui tam complaint, and negotiating the best possible outcomes with the government and private parties. We routinely handle matters under the False Claims Act, the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, HIPAA, corporate governance, cybersecurity, pharmaceutical marketing and pricing, and disputes among payers and providers.

Made up of well-respected and nationally renowned lawyers across the United States and around the world, our team includes:

• Several former Assistant United States Attorneys and healthcare fraud lawyers from the US Department of Justice
• Former senior advisors, lawyers and professionals from the HHS Office of Inspector General and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
• A best-in-class regulatory and compliance team that wrote a leading treatise on the Stark Law and includes nationally recognized authorities on the Anti-Kickback Statute and its safe harbor regulations
• Transactional lawyers experienced in negotiating healthcare transactions involving complex regulatory and compliance issues

Our team’s robust experience helps us deliver optimal results in healthcare litigation and investigations, and provide the necessary compliance guidance to help clients operate smoothly and avoid running into new issues.

While we are—and will continue to be—on the front lines of some of the largest and most important cases shaping the healthcare industry, our goal is to prevent problems from ever reaching the courtroom. Our clients come to us because they know they will get the best possible advice to minimize the likelihood of investigation or litigation. The comprehensive breadth and depth of our knowledge and experience enables us to spot issues before they become problems. Working as partners with our industry-leading healthcare regulatory and transactional lawyers, we help clients avoid investigations, litigations and crises. Yet, if litigation is unavoidable, our team of seasoned, first-chair trial lawyers is experienced in aggressively and effectively defending healthcare litigation.

As the only law firm to receive national Tier 1 rankings in healthcare from all of the industry’s top legal directories—Chambers USA, The Legal 500 USA, and U.S. News – Best Lawyers—we’ve earned our reputation by leading the legal strategies on some of the most important cases in the healthcare industry and stand ready to help you take on yours.

Global trade rules shape how your business moves goods, capital, and technology – but they are increasingly fragmented, politicized, and enforced in real time. Our international trade lawyers help you navigate international trade law across jurisdictions, aligning compliance with your commercial goals so you can operate, transact, and grow with fewer disruptions.

With teams across key global trade centers and experience spanning policy, enforcement, and transactions, we help you anticipate risk, structure cross-border activity, and respond quickly as rules change. Our integrated approach connects international trade law with national security, regulatory, and transactional considerations – so your business can operate effectively as conditions evolve.

As sanctions, export controls, customs rules, technology restrictions, and national security regulations increasingly intersect, decisions in one area can create unintended exposure across your business. We guide you through overlapping US, EU, and UK trade and national security regulations, including:

• Sanctions and export controls
• CFIUS, foreign subsidies, and other national security investment reviews
• Customs, tariffs, and import compliance
• Supply chain controls, product compliance, forced labor requirements, and supply chain due diligence obligations
• Data transfer, cybersecurity, and technology restrictions
• Outbound investment and economic security restrictions

Trade risk cuts across sourcing, contracting, financing, and distribution. We help you assess exposure across counterparties, jurisdictions, and supply chains; design compliance programs that scale with your operations; and structure transactions with trade controls in mind. Our experience also extends to diligence tied to sanctions, export controls, customs, contractual protections, third-party risk management, and internal investigations and regulatory engagement.

Trade rules are often shaped through enforcement and policy decisions as much as through written law. We represent clients in trade remedies proceedings – WTO and trade agreement disputes, administrative proceedings before customs and regulatory agencies, and cross-border investigations, enforcement actions, litigation, and arbitration.

We also engage directly with policymakers and regulators to address tariffs, market access barriers, and trade policy developments. Drawing on extensive experience on Capitol Hill and before trade and regulatory authorities, we help advance your strategic objectives through targeted advocacy.

Global trade volatility can affect how you source, sell, invest, and grow. Our international trade lawyers manage that complexity with an integrated strategy – helping you navigate international trade regulation, pursue cross-border opportunities, and move your business forward in a changing global trade environment.

Disputes can disrupt your operations, drain resources, and create uncertainty that affects business performance. Our litigation and dispute resolution lawyers help you navigate high-stakes disputes while reducing uncertainty, managing risk, and protecting your long-term business interests.

Our litigation and dispute resolution practice is comprised of experienced litigators and trial lawyers throughout the US and Europe. Working across practices, we provide integrated counsel tailored to complex disputes. By combining industry- and practice-specific knowledge with trial and appellate experience, we assess how disputes are likely to evolve and adapt your strategy accordingly.

Our lawyers guide you through every stage of a dispute – from early case assessment through litigation, trial, and appeal. With a dedicated appellate practice that has handled hundreds of appeals, including matters before the US Supreme Court, we approach cases with trial and appellate strategies aligned from the outset.

When litigation is not the most effective path forward, we partner with you to resolve disputes through arbitration and mediation. Our lawyers represent you in proceedings before the American Arbitration Association (AAA), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), and other arbitral bodies – helping you control risk, maintain confidentiality, and preserve business relationships.

In addition to commercial disputes, we advise you on sensitive investigations and government enforcement actions. We conduct internal investigations involving allegations of misconduct, compliance issues, and potential regulatory violations. We also represent you in proceedings involving the US Department of Justice (DOJ), the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), self-regulatory organizations, stock exchanges, and other state and federal agencies.

Our litigation and dispute resolution lawyers understand how disputes can affect your business and reputation. By combining litigation experience with practical business insight, we help you assess risk, reduce uncertainty, and determine the most effective path forward – whether through litigation or strategic resolution outside the courtroom.

The collection, use, and disclosure of personal data, along with the deployment of evolving technologies, create significant legal and reputational risks for companies across every sector. These risks can stem from the collection of sensitive data, the implementation of new technologies, a data security incident, or other different data use cases.

McDermott’s Technology & Privacy Litigation Practice Group is a top-ranked team, consistently recognized for successfully handling complex, high-stakes disputes. Clients rely on our sophisticated legal judgment, credibility with courts and adversaries, and disciplined approach to managing risk.

Our team represents clients in litigation, regulatory investigations, and enforcement actions involving privacy, cybersecurity, data governance, and emerging technologies. The team regularly defends organizations in class actions, arbitrations (individual and mass), multidistrict litigation, and government investigations brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights, Federal Communications Commission, state attorneys general, and other federal and state regulators.

Our lawyers have extensive experience handling precedent-setting disputes at the intersection of privacy, cybersecurity, and technology. We represent companies in matters involving artificial intelligence (AI) deployment, website tracking technologies, data security incidents, the protection of First Amendment rights and constitutional challenges to overreaching laws and regulations, vendor breaches, online platforms, digital advertising, cryptocurrency-related claims, and other complex technology-driven disputes. Our experience includes successfully narrowing FTC investigations without enforcement action, defending businesses against website wiretapping claims, and resolving high-stakes cybersecurity and vendor liability disputes. We also represent leading technology, financial services, and professional services companies in closely watched consumer class actions and other business-critical litigation involving the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the Stored Communications Act, and state and federal privacy laws.

Beyond litigation defense, we help clients navigate the full lifecycle of privacy and cybersecurity disputes. Our multidisciplinary approach combines litigation strategy, regulatory guidance, breach response counseling, and crisis management to position clients for effective outcomes under intense public and governmental scrutiny.

Clients turn to us for sophisticated counsel in matters involving:

• Data breach litigation and investigations
• California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) / Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) and other wiretapping litigation
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and healthcare privacy enforcement
• Consumer privacy class actions
• First Amendment challenges and protection
• Regulatory inquiries and enforcement defense
• Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) claims
• Biometric and genetic information privacy litigation
• Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) litigation
• Vendor and third-party cyber disputes
• Cross-border privacy and cybersecurity issues
• Incident response and post-breach remediation
• Government investigations involving cybersecurity and data practices

Our team combines deep industry knowledge with extensive courtroom and investigative experience to help clients respond confidently to evolving privacy and cybersecurity challenges.

Securities litigation remains an ongoing threat to businesses and financial institutions. Our SEC Enforcement group is composed of lawyers – including former senior members of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Enforcement – who possess substantial experience covering the full spectrum of securities enforcement activity. Our lawyers are knowledgeable about the SEC as an agency, including its rules, practices and customs, and maintain excellent relations with staff of the Enforcement Division and Office of General Counsel.

Clients rely on us to provide legal defense against securities litigation. We have secured favorable results stemming from investigations and enforcement proceedings, on behalf of public companies, their audit committees, officers, directors and senior management, as well as financial services firms, broker deals, investment advisors, hedge funds and accounting firms.

Our capabilities cover all aspects of SEC and other regulatory investigations, as well as parallel proceedings, private class actions and derivative litigation. We have been successful in deterring the SEC at various stages of enforcement investigations and frequently persuade the SEC either not to take any action against our clients or to reduce the nature and scope of the charges, including the elimination of fraud-based charges.

We have demonstrated success – civil and criminal – bringing trials to verdict in federal district courts and handling administrative proceedings at the federal and state level, and we possess substantial appellate experience in the appeal of administrative decisions to the SEC and to the US circuit courts.

As a testament to the mutual respect between our practice and the commission, we have successfully petitioned the SEC to appear as amicus curiae in favor of a client’s position in private securities litigation. The SEC also has called upon members of our group to act as receivers in the SEC civil enforcement proceedings. This cumulative experience differentiates us from the competition, ultimately providing clients with the best legal representation to achieve a favorable outcome.

We represent financial institutions, payments companies, fintechs, and other consumer-facing businesses in high-stakes investigations and enforcement matters involving the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and state attorneys general. Our team advises clients across the full lifecycle of regulatory risk – from supervisory examinations and investigations through enforcement actions and litigation – helping them respond strategically and mitigate exposure.

Drawing on senior-level experience inside the CFPB and FTC, we provide clients with a practical understanding of how regulators think, prioritize and pursue enforcement. We regularly counsel on matters involving unfair, deceptive or abusive acts or practices (UDAAP), electronic payments and transfers (Regulation E), lending and disclosure requirements (Regulation Z), and other core consumer protection frameworks.

Our approach integrates defense with forward-looking risk management. We help clients navigate regulator inquiries, prepare for and manage examinations, and engage effectively with enforcement staff. We also advise on identifying and addressing compliance gaps, including in the context of transactions, where consumer protection risks can impact valuation, deal certainty and post-close exposure.

With experience spanning rulemaking, supervision, enforcement and litigation at the federal level, we bring a comprehensive, insider-informed perspective to resolving complex consumer financial services issues in an increasingly active and fragmented regulatory environment.

We represent and defend companies and individuals facing government investigations and prosecutions involving allegations of white-collar crime. Our deep bench includes former federal prosecutors from the DOJ with experience leading hundreds of investigations and high-profile criminal trial proceedings across the full range of white-collar criminal offenses in every major district in the US and across all industries. We have a robust global team in the UK and Europe that comprises former regulators, in-house counsel, and private practice litigators with decades of experience representing companies and individuals in criminal and regulatory proceedings and associated litigation.

Our white-collar lawyers excel in crisis management and leverage insider knowledge of how criminal cases are investigated and prosecuted globally to help clients minimize their exposure. Clients turn to us for defense against allegations of white-collar crime, including:

• Bank fraud and Bank Secrecy Act (BSA)
• Bankruptcy fraud
• Corporate Fraud
• Counterintelligence and national security matters
• Crypto-enabled offenses
• Cybercrimes
• FCPA and Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA)
• Healthcare fraud
• Insider trading
• Mail and wire fraud
• Money laundering
• Public corruption
• Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) offenses
• Securities fraud
• Tax fraud

Our team has decades of experience navigating the shifting global anti-corruption landscape and advising on compliance with the FCPA, UK Bribery Act, and other anti-corruption laws. Offering a strategic and practical approach paired with a deep understanding of compliance risk, we guide our clients through FCPA industry sweeps, complex cross-border investigations, DOJ and SEC enforcement actions, and monitorships. Global companies and individuals turn to us to build effective anti-corruption compliance programs, weather uncertainty, and respond effectively to government scrutiny.

Our team handles a broad range of anti-corruption matters, including:

• High-stakes internal and government-facing investigations
• Enforcement matters before DOJ, SEC, and other government authorities
• Compliance program development and implementation
• FCPA monitorships, as both the government-appointed monitor and company counsel
• Compliance risk assessments
• Anti-corruption due diligence for M&A transactions

Multinational companies and their executives face an increasingly complex – and increasingly global – enforcement environment. Our global compliance team helps clients anticipate and manage global risk with confidence and, where necessary, respond to global investigations quickly and efficiently.

Our multinational team draws on its deep experience to help clients develop and enhance compliance programs; conduct multidisciplinary, cross-border investigations; and defend them in regulatory investigations, enforcement actions, and associated related civil litigation. We have particular experience helping clients navigate issues in the US, UK, and EU across the full spectrum of regulatory compliance, including:

• Cross-border government investigations and enforcement actions
• Global anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance
• Anti-bribery and corruption, including potential violations of the FCPA, UK Bribery Act, and other international laws
• Global whistleblower protections and initiatives
• Corporate governance and reputation management

Our white-collar defense team works closely with lawyers in our market-leading health and life sciences practice to defend the world’s largest healthcare and life sciences companies in government investigations, fraud and abuse lawsuits, and other high-profile civil and criminal cases that shape the industry.

Our lawyers have decades of experience defending clients against civil and criminal government enforcement and litigation, including False Claims Act (FCA) investigations and litigation, whether intervened by the government or not. We routinely handle matters under the FCA, the Stark Law, and the Anti-Kickback Statute. We also advise on corporate governance, cybersecurity, pharmaceutical marketing and pricing, and payer-provider disputes. Our team includes:

• Numerous former US attorneys and healthcare fraud lawyers from the DOJ
• Former senior officials from the HHS Office of Inspector General and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
• Regulatory and compliance lawyers who are nationally recognized authorities on the Stark Law and the Anti-Kickback Statute and its safe harbor regulations
• Seasoned healthcare defense lawyers with a proven track record representing health and life sciences clients in high-stakes disputes
• Lawyers skilled at advising on regulatory and compliance issues and FCA risk in transactional settings