Williams Mullen’s Government and White Collar Investigations Team recognizes that companies and their employees are facing increased scrutiny from state and federal administrative and criminal investigations, congressional inquiries, worksite enforcement audits and raids, as well as the potential for “parallel proceedings” such as administrative investigations, derivative suits and whistleblower cases. Focused, discrete, and strategic intervention by our experienced team, early in an investigation, may preclude or limit costly civil liability and criminal exposure for our clients. At Williams Mullen, we call upon our attorneys’ government experience at the investigative, federal grand jury trial and appellate levels to advise clients on how to effectively respond to all forms of investigations.
Williams Mullen’s Government and White Collar Investigations Team recognizes that companies and their employees are facing increased scrutiny from state and federal administrative and criminal investigations, congressional inquiries as well as the potential for “parallel proceedings” such as administrative investigations, derivative suits and whistleblower cases. Focused, discrete, and strategic intervention by our experienced team, early in an investigation, may preclude or limit costly civil liability and criminal exposure for our clients. At Williams Mullen, we call upon our attorneys’ government experience at the investigative, trial and appellate levels to advise clients on how to effectively respond to all forms of investigations.
Experienced Trial Attorneys with a Global Focus
The Government and White Collar Investigations Team is comprised of former Assistant United States Attorneys, the former Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Virginia, military prosecutors, litigators and seasoned criminal defense attorneys who, based on their respective backgrounds, expertise and contacts within the federal government, are uniquely positioned to represent our clients. In addition to our white collar criminal defense attorneys, our Government and White Collar Investigations Team works closely with our other practice areas that provide substantive expertise in areas such as financial services, international law, immigration, government contracts and procurement, securities, health care, tax, and cyber-law.
Our attorneys have collectively tried hundreds of cases to verdict. We have appeared in federal district and appellate courts throughout the United States, numerous state courts, and have conducted investigations and arbitrations around the world; represented clients before most federal agencies, international tribunals, and before state Attorneys General in many states; and negotiated deferred and non-prosecution resolutions on behalf of clients so that the matters do not even reach the courthouse steps. We have worked cases from their investigative infancy and have also stepped in at the last minute as trial counsel to successfully resolve the matter before a jury.
Our attorneys represent Fortune 1000 corporations, directors and officers, public officials, and professionals such as attorneys, accountants and physicians. For over three decades, we have represented clients in state and federal investigations relating to:
- Antitrust enforcement
- Copyright and trademark infringement
- Criminal tax
- Environmental enforcement
- Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
- Government contracts and procurement fraud
- Healthcare fraud
- Immigration and workplace enforcement
- Public corruption and campaign finance
- RICO
- Sarbanes-Oxley
- Securities fraud
- USA Patriot Act
For companies and individuals facing an investigation, we provide full service crisis management from press strategy to dealing with potential collateral consequences including debarment and licensing issues. Importantly, we provide the following services before any case reaches the courthouse steps: