Today’s business environment presents ever-evolving, often unexpected, challenges for businesses and individuals, requiring expertise across a variety of civil and, increasingly, criminal risks. Calfee’s White Collar Defense and Investigations practice addresses these concerns through a coordinated approach that protects our clients before, during and after trouble comes knocking.
These matters require a host of considerations, including internal and external investigations, regulatory oversight, criminal and civil actions, securities disclosure requirements, corporate governance and fiduciary duties, conflict and confidentiality protections, insurance coverage, avoidance of unwanted attention and publicity, and fundamental business judgment. Calfee’s white collar defense and investigations attorneys provide constructive counsel and expertise no matter where the process leads.
Led by a former federal prosecutor with extensive experience in both white collar criminal law enforcement and civil qui tam litigation, our team includes securities and governance attorneys with career-long experience representing issuers, underwriters, shareholder groups, directors and officers. The group also includes civil and criminal litigators with extensive familiarity with complex, bet-the-bank litigation. We also provide specific expertise in broker-dealer litigation, securities fraud litigation, antitrust investigations, health care fraud litigation, insurance fraud and coverage litigation, government contracting investigations, grand jury investigations, trademark/intellectual property infringement disputes, banking and financial services investigation and litigation, and civil and criminal environmental proceedings.
Investigations and Compliance
Many clients choose to protect against problems and to promote a governance and compliance culture through periodic risk assessments, compliance and process investigations, policy and coverage audits, and similar initiatives in marketing, sales, financial reporting and trading policies, document retention, whistleblower protections, “reporting-up” policies and other internal controls. Calfee has represented numerous clients in these initiatives and assisted in using the results in subsequent defense of a variety of regulatory, civil and criminal proceedings.
Enforcement
The breadth and sophistication of Calfee’s regulated industry expertise provides a long-existing platform for our representation of clients in virtually every sort of proceeding. We have counseled boards, board committees and individuals in every aspect of business regulatory, civil and criminal activity. We are seasoned in criminal and civil jury trial practice, settlement criteria, insurance coverage alternatives, conflict and privilege protections, agency cooperation considerations, and similar, practical considerations for resolving matters with the best possible outcome for the ongoing health of the business and the protection of its valued executives.
As a Midwest firm with extensive and established national practices in highly-regulated industries and activities, Calfee is efficient, cost-effective, disciplined in its approach to addressing the most pressing and significant elements of any situation, and focused ultimately on the long-term health, continuing success, and financial security of its clients and their respective businesses. While accessing a full range of sophisticated and experienced counsel, our clients also benefit from Calfee’s longer range mission to serve its clients well and responsibly. This results in a combination of protection and practicality that we believe is unequaled in the highly charged, often hyperventilated, environment in which our White Collar Defense and Investigations practice succeeds every day.
