Experience

• • Former Fox executive Hernan Lopez, in a seven-week federal criminal trial involving allegations of fraud and bribery, in which the judge ordered the acquittal of the client.
  • Various global companies and private equity firms in conducting anti-corruption and trade compliance due diligence relating to potential transactions and investments around the world.
  • CPPIB Credit Investments, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, and OMERS, the defined benefit pension plan for Ontario’s municipal sector employees, in separate investments totaling $900 million in Odyssey Group, a U.S. based reinsurance and insurance subsidiary of Fairfax.
  • Two leading international firms relating to whistleblower complaints alleging corruption in public procurement processes in Mexico.
  • A major insurance company in an internal investigation regarding potential FCPA violations in Chile.
  • The audit committee of a U.S. company in an internal investigation into a potential anti-corruption issue.
  • A securities brokerage platform in an internal investigation into recent outage issues and responding to related regulatory inquiries.
  • Dozens of inmates seeking relief in federal courts around the country from onerous sentences resulting from outdated mandatory sentencing provisions that were disproportionately invoked against Black men.
  • Gramercy Funds Management and Gramercy Peru Holdings in winning a $100 million award in an UNCITRAL arbitration against the Republic of Peru relating to Peru’s agrarian reform bonds, which is the first decision finding Peru liable under the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement and at the time was the largest amount awarded against Peru in any treaty arbitration.
  • Roderick Byrd in state and federal post-conviction proceedings with respect to sentence of death imposed after trial in Jefferson County, Alabama, Circuit Court.
  • Norma Garcia-Chox and her son who were separated after arriving in the United States under the Zero-Tolerance Policy resulting in the son being granted affirmative asylum.
  • A client detained at Port Isabel Detention Center in Texas after being separated from his son while currently seeking asylum for them both.
  • Helping individuals from underserved Latin American communities with immigration-related matters in the United States.