Defense of a former Gunvor S.A. employee charged in the Eastern District of New York with conspiring to launder proceeds of an international bribery scheme involving Ecuador's state oil company, PetroEcuador — a scheme Gunvor itself later admitted to in a $474.4 million FCPA resolution.
Led internal investigations in Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, and the United Kingdom for subsidiaries of publicly traded U.S. and European companies. The matters involved international corruption, accounting fraud, Bank Secrecy Act violations, AML compliance failures, and senior executive misconduct. Represented companies and their audit committees before the SEC, the DOJ, and other agencies.
Worked on the defense of a former Gunvor executive charged in the Eastern District of New York in connection with an approximately $22 million PetroEcuador bribery scheme. Gunvor S.A., the Swiss energy trading company, separately pleaded guilty in March 2024 to conspiracy to violate the FCPA and paid a $374.56 million criminal fine as part of a $474.4 million global resolution, admitting it paid intermediaries more than $97 million between 2012 and 2020 to bribe PetroEcuador officials to obtain and retain oil-trading business.
Represented a Canadian national and former Gunvor employee charged in the Eastern District of New York with conspiring to launder proceeds of a roughly $22 million bribery scheme involving Ecuador's state oil company, PetroEcuador. Gunvor S.A., the Swiss energy trading company, separately pleaded guilty in March 2024 to conspiracy to violate the FCPA and paid a $374.56 million criminal fine as part of a $474.4 million global resolution, admitting it paid intermediaries more than $97 million between 2012 and 2020 to bribe PetroEcuador officials to obtain and retain oil-trading business. Covered by Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, and international press.
Represents a Latin American executive of a leading telecommunications company under simultaneous investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division and the European Commission over alleged price fixing in mobile voice and data markets across Latin America and the Caribbean. Managing parallel proceedings in the United States, Panama, and Jamaica.
Represents a Latin America-based employee of a U.S. public company in an SEC and DOJ accounting-restatement investigation involving restatements exceeding $100 million. Referral from an Am Law 20 law firm.