INTRODUCTION
Contributed by: Eric Bruce and Justin Simeone, Freshfields US LLP
Freshfields US LLP has a white-collar defence team that is highly skilled in advising cross-bor - der businesses on anti-bribery and corruption risks arising anywhere in the world. The firm’s US white-collar partners, most of whom are for - mer federal prosecutors, lead a team with more than 200 US lawyers working in close co-ordi - nation with Freshfields’ offices in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Freshfields helps clients respond to simultaneous inquiries from the US DOJ, the US SEC and CFTC, the UK Serious Fraud Office, and other global regulators and
prosecutors, in connection with allegations of bribery and corruption. Freshfields’ lawyers de - velop multi-pronged defence strategies to navi - gate the varied expectations of regulators and prosecutors around the globe. The firm regularly conducts international anti-bribery compliance programme reviews and provides due diligence and transactional advice for some of the world’s leading investors, banks and multi-nationals. Recent anti-corruption work has included se - curing the first declination with disgorgement under the DOJ’s Corporate Enforcement Policy.
Contributing Editor
Co-Author
Eric Bruce is a partner in Freshfields’ global investigations, white-collar
Justin Simeone is a senior associate in Freshfields’ global investigations, white-collar criminal defence, and disputes practice. He represents individuals and corporations in
criminal defence, and disputes practice. He represents boards of directors, multi-national corporations, and individual executives in complex white-collar criminal defence matters and corporate investigations. Eric is one of the relatively few lawyers in the USA who has tried an FCPA case to verdict and succeeded in getting all charges against his client dismissed. He previously served in the US Department of Justice as Counselor to the Attorney General and Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division. Eric also spent more than ten years as a prosecutor in the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
white-collar defence, regulatory investigations, and civil litigation matters. Justin has been a member of multiple trial teams, including a four-week jury trial involving criminal securities fraud charges in the Southern District of New York. In addition, he has experience leading and conducting white-collar investigations involving conduct in more than two dozen countries, including investigations by the DOJ, SEC, CFTC, and the World Bank spanning allegations of fraud, anti-competitive practices, securities violations, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations.
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