An International Guide to Corporate Internal Investigations

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1. United States
2. Argentina
3. Brazil
4. France
5. Germany
6. India
7. People's Republic of China
8. Switzerland
9. Ukraine
10. United Arab Emirates
11. United Kingdom

Author Bio

Mark Beardsworth is a partner in Cadwaladers White Collar Defense andInvestigations Group, resident in the London office.Mark focuses his practice in the defense of serious fraud and complexcriminal and regulatory matters. He has been involved in more than 30 investigationsconducted by the Serious Fraud Office over the last 25 years. Thesecases are often complex, high profile and international in nature. Mark conducts internal investigations for major global corporates, andadvises those companies and their directors on risk and governance issues.He has conducted investigations around the world in numerous sectors andjurisdictions and is currently advising on matters involving issues in 6 continents.He is experienced in conducting investigations for a wide range ofentities including regulators, charities, schools, local government authorities,and major sports teams. He helps clients to manage and avoid reputationaland enforcement risk in a wide range of scenarios. Mark is recognized as a leader in the field of commercial fraud in TheLegal 500 and Chambers and Partners directories. He is also recognized as aThought and Global Leader in Whos Who Legal and Global InvestigationsReview for Asset Recovery, Business Crime Defence Corporates and Individuals,and Investigations. Mark is the co-chair of the ABA Criminal Justice Section InternationalWhite Collar Crime Committee. Patrick Hanes focuses his practice on handling all manner of disputes thatarise from business competition and regulation. He has practiced with the lawfirm Williams Mullen in Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Virginia, since1995. His practice has included a broad base of civil and criminal litigationat both the trial and appellate levels. Patrick has substantial experience conductinginvestigations both in the United States and overseas. He has representedbusinesses and individuals in government and corporate investigationsin matters involving securities and banking regulation, antitrust, conspiracy,wire fraud, tax disputes, environmental laws, and the Foreign Corrupt PracticesAct. He has handled the defense of several dozen criminal and civilinvestigations conducted by the Department of Justice, the Securities andExchange Commission, state prosecutors, and other federal and state investigativeand regulatory agencies. He regularly supports corporate transactionsby conducting regulatory due diligence on a variety of matters. He has advisedmany clients on whistleblower matters, including employment retaliationclaims. He also advises several public and private company clients regardingtheir legal compliance programs and conducts compliance investigations, riskassessments, and training inside the United States as well as in several othercountries in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe. Patrick is the co-chair ofthe American Bar Associations White Collar Crime Regional Committee forthe Southeast Region and the co-chair of the ABA Criminal Justice SectionsInternational White Collar Crime Committee. He also serves as an adjunctprofessor of law at the University of Richmond School of Law, teaching inthe area of white-collar crime and investigations. Prior to joining WilliamsMullen, Patrick served as a law clerk to the Honorable Albert V. Bryan, Jr.,Senior Judge for the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia.He received his law degree in 1994 from the University of Virginia School ofLaw, where he was a member of the University of Virginia Law Review. Hereceived his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia in 1988,where he was an Echols Scholar. Ibtissem Lassoued has extensive experience advising international clients ona spectrum of complex, multijurisdictional white collar crime issues, includingbut not limited to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing,global economic sanctions, anti-corruption issues including the extraterritorialeffect of the US FCPA and UK Bribery act, complex fraud, extraditionand INTERPOL notices, and Capital Market investigations. Ibtissem offersclients a full and practical knowledge of the remit of inter-governmentalorganizations, in particular in relation to the FATF and MENAFATF, andthe effect of these on anti-corruption efforts, confiscation of the proceeds ofcrime, de-risking and the reporting of suspicious transactions.Ibtissem has been ranked as Band 1 in Chambers Global for CorporateInvestigations for 6 consecutive years since the categorys inclusion and iscommended for being a brilliant practitioner, as passionate about her areaof expertise as she is knowledgeable, and stunningly good at what she does. In February 2021, Ibtissem was appointed as the Chair of the Global Coalitionto Fight Financial Crime Middle East and North Africa Chapter. Herwork with the Global Coalition involves strategic oversight and directionof the Global Coalitions activity in all MENA countries and active involvementin the development of an effective financial crime system across thepublic and private sectors. In 2019, she was ranked amongst Financial News50 Most Influential Women in Middle East Finance, and is currently servingas a member of the International Advisory Board of the CEELI Institute, anon-profit non-governmental organizationbased in Prague, Czech Republic,dedicated to advancing the rule of law. Saverio Lembo heads Br & Karrers White Collar Crime practice group.He also has extensive experience in commercial and financial litigation, internationaljudicial assistance (civil and criminal), and arbitration. During recentyears, he has been involved in various complex commercial litigation proceedings,has served as a party representative or arbitrator in various commercialarbitrations, and has assisted clients in Swiss and foreign criminal proceedings. He regularly represents clients before the Court of Arbitration for Sport(CAS). Saverio Lembos practice also extends to pharmaceutical litigation andenforcement of foreign judgments/awards. Saverio Lembo is ranked in Band1 of the leading lawyers in White-Collar Crime Switzerland by Chambers &Partners. He was awarded Lawyer of the Year for Switzerland in the categoriesBusiness Crime Defence, Litigation, and Investigations by WhosWho Legal in 2021. Frances McLeod is a founding partner of FRA and head of its US offices. Sheis a former investment banker with more than 26 years of experience advisingdiverse clients on sanctions, anti-corruption, fraud, internal controls, assettracing, and money laundering issues. She has extensive experience addressingcomplex international data-transfer issues in regulatory investigations andcross-border litigation, including leading the FRA team responding to anticorruptioninvestigation data requests in all jurisdictions for Alstom. Franceshas been deeply involved in all of FRAs compliance monitorship work,including having recently served as the DOJ-appointed independent compliancemonitor on the IAV GmbH monitorship. She has also been involved innumerous other US DOJ and SEC FCPA monitorships, a New York Departmentof Financial Services bank monitorship, the Ferguson City monitorship,a PCAOB monitorship, and a US DOJ fraud-related monitorship.