Fortune 500 companies, corporate executives and public figures rely on WilmerHale’s experience to counsel them through cross-border investigations, as well as related criminal litigation and civil and administrative enforcement proceedings. We know how to conduct and defend investigations and are particularly sensitive to working across jurisdictions and with local counsel. We understand how to pay appropriate attention to the secondary risks that must be managed during cross-border inquiries, such as data privacy, preservation and protection, crisis management and media relations, communications with multiple law enforcement and regulatory authorities, interactions with auditors, and corporate governance.

In the past two years, our investigations teams have spent more than 200,000 hours working on matters involving more than 75 countries. The issues on which we have worked have spanned criminal, civil and regulatory concerns relating to cartel and competition issues, potential corruption, money laundering, fraud, cyber breaches, code of conduct and compliance violations, whistleblower complaints, export/import regulations, sanctions violations, multilateral developmental bank corruption inquiries, non-immigrant visa fraud investigations, regulatory infractions, and many other legal and regulatory issues.

We bring years of experience to managing cross-border inquiries. Since 2015, more than 60 of our lawyers have led cross-border matters that have involved more than 300 of our lawyers. Our partnership includes not only tens of lawyers experienced with handling sensitive matters around the world while in private practice, but many lawyers with extensive government experience working on transnational issues. Among others, our partners include two former Deputy Attorneys General, four former US Attorneys, the former Deputy Director of the CIA, the former Undersecretary of Treasury for Intelligence and Terrorist Finance, the former General Counsels of the CIA, FBI, and Department of Defense, and many others.