Practice Areas
Erin Sloane's practice focuses on government and internal investigations and white collar criminal matters, with a concentration on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and international anti-corruption issues. She has successfully represented both institutions and individuals in government investigations and prosecutions involving financial and accounting fraud, insider trading, wire fraud, and FCPA issues.
Ms. Sloane has conducted numerous cross-border corruption investigations in Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and South America, and regularly appears before the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in corruption-related investigations. She has successfully achieved multiple non-public DOJ and SEC declinations for clients in FCPA matters and has advised several prominent clients as they have worked to meet the terms of their publicly disclosed FCPA resolutions with the DOJ and SEC. Ms. Sloane also regularly counsels clients on challenging anti-corruption issues in numerous business contexts, including the development and implementation of effective anti-corruption compliance programs and corruption-related considerations in cross-border mergers, joint ventures and acquisitions.
In August 2019, the DOJ and SEC appointed Ms. Sloane as the independent FCPA compliance monitor for a German-based global healthcare company with a market cap of $24 billion. Ms. Sloane is one of only a handful of lawyers who have not previously served in Government to obtain such an appointment.
Since June 2023, Ms. Sloane has led a team representing the firm’s long-time client, Glencore, in connection with two independent compliance monitorships imposed by DOJ in connection with coordinated resolutions with the FCPA and MIMF units of the Department in May 2022. In March 2025, the DOJ determined that it was appropriate to terminate those monitorships 15 months before the three year term was set to end. This unprecedented decision marked the first time the DOJ cut short a compliance monitorship by invoking a standard provision in plea agreements allowing for the modification of probation conditions.
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Professional Memberships
Ms. Sloane is one of the founders of the Innocence Project’s Young Professionals Committee (YPC)—a group of young professionals dedicated to supporting the Innocence Project through fundraising and community outreach efforts. Ms. Sloane is also actively involved in WilmerHale’s Women’s Leadership Initiative.
Personal
JD, New York University School of Law, 2003
BA, University of Virginia, 1998, with High Distinction
