Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
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Latham & Watkins offers top tier skills representing both individual and corporate clients in major criminal investigations and administrative enforcement, with strengths in areas including healthcare fraud, insider trading and FCPA violations. It excels in complex multijurisdictional work, with expert abilities in defending clients against major SEC and DOJ actions. The firm's impressive client base includes a number of household names in the energy, financial services and healthcare sectors.
Work Highlights
- Latham & Watkins defended NextGen Healthcare in a six-year False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute investigation, following allegations that it improperly received incentive payments for uncertified electronic health records software and that it paid commissions to persons who referred its products.
Strengths
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"These people are lights-out smart. When there's an issue, we get to the bottom of it."
"Latham & Watkins took the time to diligently understand everything and craft a smart strategy, despite my working in a very specialized field. Latham also had the resources to help with the highly technical aspects of my situation and they were always ahead of the ball. It felt like they knew exactly how the government would respond to everything and helped guide me in the right direction."
"These people are lights-out smart. When there's an issue, we get to the bottom of it."
"Latham & Watkins took the time to diligently understand everything and craft a smart strategy, despite my working in a very specialized field. Latham also had the resources to help with the highly technical aspects of my situation and they were always ahead of the ball. It felt like they knew exactly how the government would respond to everything and helped guide me in the right direction."
Notable Practitioners
David Schindler is regularly engaged by high profile clients on significant corruption and False Claims Act mandates and is noted in particular for his experience in the healthcare sector.
Manuel Abascal represents large corporations as well as individual executives in internal and government investigations.
"He's so experienced, he's seen it all. He's dogged in his representation of clients - he can be aggressive when he needs to be and incredibly smooth when it's more effective."
Christopher Frey is a highly regarded former prosecutor who offers a strong pedigree in acting for financial services companies and executives in regulatory investigations and enforcement.
"He combines oral advocacy skills with impeccable judgment; he's a real rising star."
"Chris is great. He's the person who you want running point any time you have some government request inbound."
"Chris is stellar and I'm very thankful I got to work with him."
Margaret Tough handles trials and investigations on a range of white-collar concerns. She has particular experience in defending clients in the energy sector on environmental matters.
Ranked Lawyers at
Latham & Watkins LLP
California