About

Provided by Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Corporate criminal conduct can have devastating effects. These issues require swift and decisive action, whether preventative or reactive, and in today's global business world often involve multiple jurisdictions.

With one of the largest and most skilled corporate crime and investigation practices, our world-class team brings outstanding results for clients drawing on market-leading legal skills, local commercial knowledge and insights into regulators and law enforcement bodies. Clients trust us because we possess the necessary expertise and sound judgement to guide them through complicated and sensitive issues. 

Our experience encompasses all areas of law connected with bribery and corruption, sanctions, fraud, money laundering, whistleblowing, insider dealing, cartels, corporate manslaughter, healthcare fraud and antitrust. We have decades of experience advising and representing multinational corporates, financial institutions, Boards and senior executives. 

Our lawyers regularly advise clients on preventive measures, helping establish corporate policies and compliance programmes to mitigate the risk of becoming a target of a government investigation, and conduct independent internal investigations into corporate conduct.

Chambers Review

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Corporate Crime & Investigations: Highly Regarded - USA - Nationwide

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What the Team is Known For

HSF Kramer has a formidable practice that is widely considered to be a market leader in New York for white-collar litigation. Best known for its strengths in trials, the team is also well versed in both civil and criminal investigations regarding claims of misconduct, insider trading and accounting irregularities. Also capable of conducting internal investigations for audit committees and boards of directors.

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP and Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP combined on June 1st to form HSF Kramer.

Notable practitioners

Paul Schoeman is a key contact in New York.

Work Highlights

  • The firm represented Meta Platforms, in a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice alleging that it had engaged in discrimination against US workers by failing to consider and hire them for positions that it recruited for as part of the green card process.

Strengths

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