Donald Ridings
USA Guide 2024
Band 5 : FCPA
Email address
[email protected]Contact number
+1 202 662 5357Share profile
About
Provided by Donald Ridings
Practice Areas
As chair of the firm’s global Anti-Corruption Practice Group, Don Ridings leads a team of compliance and investigation lawyers based in the U.S., Europe and Asia. For almost two decades, Mr. Ridings has advised clients in nearly every major industry on a range of compliance issues arising under the FCPA and other anti-bribery regimes. He serves as outside anti-corruption counsel to several Fortune 500 companies, including two in the Fortune 10. Mr. Ridings routinely counsels clients on proposed investment transactions, helps companies update and strengthen their anti-corruption compliance programs and conducts global anti-corruption risk assessments.
Mr. Ridings has led dozens of internal investigations arising from conduct in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and North America. He represents clients before the U.S. Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission, where he has secured several non-public declinations.
An experienced civil and international litigator, Mr. Ridings has represented clients in federal and state courts, administrative proceedings, and international arbitral tribunals. He maintains an active civil rights-focused pro bono practice.
Chambers Review
USA
Donald Ridings is chair of Covington & Burling's anticorruption practice. He has considerable experience assisting clients with FCPA and anticorruption compliance, with a strong following of clients in the life sciences sector. He also has expertise handling multijurisdictional investigations.