Related Practices

• Securities and Financial Services Litigation
• Class Action Litigation
• Insurance Litigation and Regulation
• White Collar Criminal Defense and Government Investigations

Practice Leader

• Burton W. Wiand

Practice Team

Fowler White Boggs Banker has an impressive White Collar Criminal Defense and Government Investigations team with the experience, skills, and up to date knowledge needed to navigate a maze of high-stake issues and coordinate an effective global response.  Our diverse team of white collar litigators includes a former supervisory SEC Enforcement Division Attorney, a former veteran criminal and civil Assistant United States Attorney, together with a group that includes attorneys formerly with the IRS Office of Chief Counsel and the U.S. Department of Justice's Tax Division.  Our White Collar Criminal Defense and Government Investigations Group works closely with other practice groups in the Firm and frequently integrates their substantive knowledge of our bankruptcy, environmental, government contracts, health care, insurance, intellectual property, international, securities, and tax law experts into a coordinated defense strategy. 

Among the areas in which our lawyers have particular experience include:

• Accounting Fraud
• Insurance Fraud
• Antitrust
• Mail Fraud
• Bank Fraud
• Medicaid/Medicare Fraud
• Bankruptcy Fraud
• Money Laundering
• Corporate Compliance/Audits
• Public Finance
• Embezzlement
• RICO/Hobbs Act
• Extortion
• Search Warrant
• Forgery
• Securities Fraud - SEC actions, violations, insider trading, investigations, backdating stock options
• Health Care Fraud
• Tax Fraud
• Identity Theft

The White Collar Crime and Government Investigations Group proactively represents corporate and individual clients in all matters of federal and state white collar crimes, grand jury investigations, regulatory enforcement investigations and proceedings by federal and state government agencies, and self-regulating organizations, and a broad range of inquiries from Congress and other federal and state legislative bodies.  These lawyers also represent individual directors, officers, and other executives whose conduct has become the focus of a board inquiry or full-blown internal investigation.