Bruce Searby

Practice Areas

White Collar Criminal Defense and Other Regulatory

Complex Civil Litigation

Appeals

Independent Investigation and Counseling

Career

Bruce H. Searby defends corporations and individuals in a wide variety of white-collar criminal matters. Bruce has successfully prosecuted and defended some of the most high-profile foreign and domestic bribery cases pursued by the federal government. He won one of the few FCPA cases that has been tried to verdict before a jury. His background also includes high-stakes civil securities fraud and general commercial litigation. Bruce’s litigation experience has spanned from East Coast to West Coast, and from leading private law firms to the Department of Justice. Through his 20-year career, Bruce has won cases at all procedural stages from the pleadings through to trial and appeals.

Professional Memberships

National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

Publications

Articles/citations:

• Comment Letter cited by U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in “Proposed Rule On Disclosure of Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers” (2019)

• Law360 Expert Analysis: “FCPA Liability For Hiring Practices Gains New Credibility” (2018)

Print media quotations/citations:

• The Wall Street Journal (2019, 2020)

• Global Investigations Review (2018, 2019, 2021)

• The Anti-Corruption Report (2018)

• The Gecko Project (2020)

• Reuters (2022)