Criminal and governmental regulatory investigations require specific know-how and experience to preserve clients’ business and reputation. Our team understands the overwhelming and complex challenges clients face in the high-stakes, often tumultuous world of governmental investigations – and we approach every matter with an early focus on the client’s goals.

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin's White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement Practice represents individuals and companies in criminal and regulatory investigations, criminal prosecutions, and civil enforcement actions. Leveraging our litigation experience and prior government service, including at the SEC, our team assesses every case early on and develops a unique plan to address concerns and negotiate favorable strategies for our clients. In situations where a negotiated decision is not possible, our attorneys have the trial experience necessary to aggressively defend clients’ interests in court and in administrative proceedings.

In governmental investigations, we scrutinize every case detail and create innovative strategies to help our clients. From speaking with prosecutors and governmental regulators initially to handling liability issues and minimizing any impact on a company’s business or on an individual's career and family, we work diligently to maintain confidentiality and protect our clients’ interests. Our team uncovers the facts, establishes a channel of communication with the government, and develops an action plan to minimize the operational and reputational distractions that accompany an enforcement inquiry.

On behalf of clients across a number of highly regulated industries, we regularly handle:

• Antitrust enforcement
• Environmental offenses
• Federal RICO and New York OCCA scheme offenses
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
• Internal investigations on behalf of management, directors, or public and private entity committees
• Money laundering and currency structuring
• Prevailing wage and labor law enforcement
• Public and commercial bribery
• Securities fraud including insider trading, accounting fraud, market manipulation, and public company disclosures
• Tax offenses

We represent clients before all major enforcement agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement bureaus, the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, United States Attorneys’ Offices, the New York County District Attorney’s Office, and other local prosecutors and government agencies. Recognizing that government investigations often create complexities in other areas of clients’ personal and business matters, we often tap into our Firm’s multidisciplinary services to provide clients with cross-practice counsel on regulatory, tax, civil litigation, and other issues arising from a government probe.