Morrison Foerster Recognized as a Top 30 Investigations Firm in GIR 30 2022

For the fourth consecutive year, Morrison Foerster has been named one of the top 30 investigations practices by Global Investigations Review (GIR). The GIR top 30 assessment identifies leading firms from around the world that are best situated to handle sophisticated cross-border government-led and internal investigations.

Morrison Foerster’s Investigations + White-Collar Defense team is the go-to outside counsel for leading public and private companies in high‑risk and challenging markets worldwide. The strength of our group is the depth and diversity of our multidisciplinary experience. Our team includes former U.S. federal and state prosecutors who held senior roles including as Associate Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California, and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, senior government regulators including the former Director of the San Francisco Regional Office for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, White House and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) counsel, national security, compliance and privacy specialists, and veteran defense lawyers. We have two former managers from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Criminal Division, Fraud Section’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Unit, both of whom were instrumental in the development of the modern architecture of FCPA enforcement, overseeing hundreds of cases and billions of dollars in penalties and landmark FCPA trials. Our team also boasts pre-eminent national security and corporate fraud lawyers, some who recently left government service but retain active security clearances, including attorneys who served as General Counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence; Chief of the DOJ’s Foreign Agents Registration Act Unit; the only former Director of the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control in private practice; Special Counsel to the Director of the FBI; and Chief of the Market Integrity and Major Frauds Unit of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section at the DOJ; and Chief of DOJ’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section. These additions underscore the continued momentum of Morrison Foerster’s global Investigations + White Collar Defense practice, which has grown significantly during the past several years, in particular through recruitment of former senior U.S. government officials and prosecutors and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement attorneys.

Our robust former government experience extends outside the United States and into the jurisdictions most important to where our clients conduct business. We have team members focused on litigation, including government investigations, based across the U.S., the UK, Europe, and Asia, including those who have served in non-U.S. law enforcement and regulatory agencies, such as Japan’s Financial Services Agency, the Securities & Futures Commission of Hong Kong, the UK’s Serious Fraud Office, and the Singapore Attorney-General’s Chambers. We are also very active in Latin America and have lawyers at all levels who speak Spanish and Portuguese. We have handled matters in over 65 countries across six continents.

The breadth of our team informs our ability to provide real-time and seamless advice to clients across continents and time zones, including in key financial centers in China, Japan, and Singapore, and in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.