White Collar & Investigations

Many of our WC&I Group members are known for their trial experience, both as prosecutors and defense attorneys. As a result, our Group does not hesitate to aggressively defend and try cases and takes pride in not reflexively acceding to prosecutors’ or regulators’ demands, but at the same time appreciates the inherent value to clients of avoiding the criminal process – and its uncertainties – to the greatest extent possible and obtaining closure as quickly as possible. Our subject-matter knowledge is vast as we represent companies and individuals in both civil and criminal investigations and enforcement proceedings, brought by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Attorneys General of numerous states, and regulatory agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Building on this foundation of trial experience and strategic defense, our team’s capabilities extend far beyond the courtroom. WC&I has investigated and defended clients against allegations of financial, accounting, securities, bank, insurance, tax, healthcare, and government contract fraud and has been involved in many high-profile investigations and prosecutions of alleged political and union corruption, both domestically and abroad.  The Group’s core areas of representation include:

• Antitrust/bid rigging
• Arms Export Control Act
• Bank fraud
• Election law and campaign violations
• Federal and state securities laws
• Foreign Agents Registration Act
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
• Healthcare fraud and abuse
• International extradition
• Qui tam (whistleblower) actions under the False Claims Act
• Professional licensing and disciplinary proceedings
• Regulatory issues arising under the jurisdictions of:
• • Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  • Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
  • Department of Defense (DOD)
  • United States Customs and Border Protection (CPB)
  • Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Reserve:

Our Group has also conducted significant investigations on behalf of Fortune 100 companies, pharmaceutical companies, telecommunications and financial services firms, government contractors, universities, and nonprofit organizations. We offer a multidisciplinary and client-oriented approach to internal investigations that seeks to ferret out the truth without unduly burdening the corporate entity or interrupting business operations, ultimately looking to bring to justice those who may have committed corporate wrongdoing, as well as recommending internal reforms aimed at preventing future defalcations or compliance problems. Our approach seeks to remain focused and to avoid broadening any investigation further than necessary.

Meanwhile, our vast experience representing senior executives in connection with internal, audit committee, securities regulatory, and government investigations leaves us particularly sensitive to the considerations that will be in the minds of those subject to investigation. We approach each investigation with the goal of minimizing the litigation, regulatory, and criminal risks associated with each matter. Among the types of cases for which we have performed internal investigations are:

• Financial reporting and disclosure obligations
• Accounting improprieties and tax treatment
• Executive compensation/corporate looting
• Misappropriation of funds
• Insider trading of securities and other suspicious market trading
• Adequacy of internal controls and other compliance matters
• Anti-kickback, off-label promotion, and other inappropriate marketing of pharmaceuticals
• Retaliation for whistleblowing
• Foreign and domestic bribery and corruption
• Non-compliance with government procurement regulations

WC&I is often retained to represent the interests of convicted or otherwise sanctioned companies and individuals through all stages of the federal and state post-conviction, sentencing, and appellate processes. Our attorneys have argued and won scores of precedent-setting appeals in numerous areas of criminal law and procedure, including searches and seizure, eyewitness identification evidence, admissibility of confessions, rules of evidence, discovery, the scope of numerous statutes, juvenile rights, protection of battered and pregnant women, public office forfeiture, expungement, the death penalty, and sentencing guidelines interpretation. In recent years, our Group has also been increasingly involved in U.S. Supreme Court litigation, both as amici curiae in important criminal cases and as counsel of record.

Chambers USA, Litigation: General Commercial – Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, New Jersey, Texas and West Virginia, ranked in multiple bands, 2025.

Chambers USA, Litigation: Indiana – White Collar Criminal Defense, individual Up and Coming ranking; New Jersey – White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations; three partners earned individual rankings and recognition, 2025

Best Law Firms®, New Jersey, Criminal Defense: General Practice and Criminal Defense: White-Collar (Regional Tier 1), 2026 

Best Lawyers®, Five partners included in Criminal Defense: White-Collar category, 2026

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