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Overview | Representative Matters
Overview
Vinson & Elkins LLP has for many years represented clients in government and congressional investigations as well as white collar criminal defense matters generally. Recent years have seen a substantial increase in criminal investigation of business activities, particularly in securities, government contracting and health care matters. Such criminal investigations often arise as an adjunct to administrative investigations or civil litigation.
The White Collar Criminal Defense Group represents clients by conducting internal investigations, responding to grand jury and governmental regulatory subpoenas, handling grand jury proceedings and search warrants, negotiating with prosecutors and other regulators, dealing with suspension and debarment issues and defending clients in criminal pleas, trials and sentencing. The Group also assists clients in establishing proactive compliance and auditing programs that satisfy regulatory requirements and potentially can mitigate the consequences of a violation under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines. We also defend our clients in civil or administrative litigation that may be filed by the government or private parties as a result of a criminal investigation, including civil fraud suits, qui tam actions, antitrust class actions and securities suits. Finally, we assist our clients in connection with congressional and agency inquiries into regulatory compliance and other matters.
Vinson & Elkins' clients in criminal matters and government investigations have included large corporations; corporate officers, directors and employees; elected officials; small businesses and business owners; municipalities; and other individuals and associations. Our attorneys have substantial experience in dealing with these matters at the federal, state and local level throughout the United States.
The Group has represented clients in a wide range of substantive areas, including among others: accounting, antitrust, banking, campaign finance, energy, environmental, export control, False Claims Act, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, health care, money laundering, Patriot Act, political corruption, procurement and government contracting, RICO, Sarbanes-Oxley and securities, tax and technology. Our attorneys have represented clients in many prominent investigations such as those involving government contracting in Iraq and Kuwait, a New Jersey governor, Senator Robert Torricelli, the Salt Lake City Olympics, the CIA, Ruby Ridge, Whitewater, Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy, Iran Contra and Ill Wind.
The Group is led by former federal prosecutors: C. Michael Buxton, who previously served in the Department of Justice and was a Law Clerk to then Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist, and Mark H. Tuohey, who was formerly Deputy Whitewater Independent Counsel. The other attorneys in the Group include other former federal prosecutors and former SEC enforcement officials, who bring substantial additional expertise in many areas of criminal defense.
Representative Matters
A sample of the Group's representative matters includes:
- Defending a New Jersey governor in an investigation of political corruption and a threatened civil lawsuit
- Defending government contractors in civil, criminal and congressional investigations of their procurement activities in Iraq and Kuwait
- Defending a former senior official of a major accounting firm in a criminal tax shelter investigation
- Defending a public accounting firm in an investigation of its accounting practices
- Representing a West Coast municipality in an investigation of its finances and pension system
- Defending several national health care companies and corporate officials in grand jury and OIG investigations for health care fraud
- Defending several clients in SEC and DOJ investigations, including those involving AOL and AIG/PNC of alleged accounting fraud
- Defending a public accounting firm in a government investigation and litigation of its consulting services to health care providers on the proper coding of laboratory services
- Defending officials of a major pharmaceutical company in an investigation of the company’s environmental law compliance at a major facility
- Defending a major telecommunications firm in a criminal antitrust investigation of communications service in the Philippines
- Defending a significant energy company relating to a commodities fraud investigation by the CFTC, FERC and the Department of Justice
- Defending a prominent professional in investigations by the Department of Justice and the FEC relating to potential campaign finance violations
- Consulting with a variety of corporations relating to compliance matters under the Patriot Act, Sarbanes-Oxley and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines
- Representing several international companies in investigations of financial activities and foreign business arrangements focusing on tax and securities law compliance
- Advising international and domestic companies on compliance issues under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and the money laundering, federal banking and other state and federal statutes
- Defending companies and individuals in several industry-wide federal grand jury investigations of price-fixing and other antitrust violations
- Defending a corporate executive against SEC charges under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and obtaining a dismissal of all charges
- Defending an individual in the Department of Justice Campaign Finance Task Force investigation of Senator Robert Torricelli
- Defending an individual in the investigations of the Salt Lake City Olympics
- Defending individuals in various investigations into activities at the CIA
- Defending a former FBI agent in various proceedings related to Ruby Ridge
- Conducting an investigation of certain practices of the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department
- Defending several clients in congressional and criminal investigations of political fund-raising activities
- Defending an international industrial and chemical company in an investigation into alleged Clean Water Act and other violations at several of its plants
- Defending a large energy company in an investigation of the company’s exports of certain equipment
- Defending a senior official of a large financial services company in connection with federal inquiries into its financial practices
- Defending several government contractors in civil and criminal procurement investigations
- Defending corporate employees in connection with the Independent Counsel investigation of Mike Espy
- Defending a prominent Arkansas law firm in the various Whitewater investigations conducted by the Independent Counsel, federal banking agencies and the U.S. Congress
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