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8.16.22
Wilson Sonsini Adds Former Acting U.S. Attorney Christopher Chiou to Fast-Growing Litigation Department
Christopher (Chris) Chiou has joined Wilson Sonsini's litigation department as a partner in the Los Angeles office. He joins the firm’s expanding trial and commercial litigation practices after serving as Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada.
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11.16.21
Wilson Sonsini Named Among World’s Leading Firms for Investigations
On November 10, 2021, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati was named to the 2021 edition of the GIR 100, an annual guide to the world’s leading cross-border investigations practices published by Global Investigations Review. Based on extensive research, the publication selected 100 law firms and 12 investigations consultancies from around the world that handle sophisticated cross-border government-led and internal investigations and related settlement negotiations or prosecutions of corporates and individuals.
The accompanying profile notes that the firm has “added to its investigations practice over the past year by recruiting big-name lawyers in New York and London,” and references several FCPA-related matters handled by the firm, including its representation of a group of shareholders in Africo Resources Limited who sued for restitution in an FCPA investigation against Och-Ziff, representation of several large cybersecurity companies in various FCPA investigations being conducted by the DOJ and SEC, representation of a computer scientist at a Chinese university who faced a charge of wire fraud conspiracy, and representation of witnesses in connection with an ongoing investigation into alleged corruption involving the Venezuelan state-owned oil and natural gas company PDVSA. The profile also highlights the practices of partners Caz Hashemi, Tarek Helou, Leo Cunningham, and Moe Fodeman, and mentions the recent hires of Jessica Lonergan and Mike Casey, as well as the return of Beth George.
For more information on the 2021 GIR 100 recognition, please click here.
The accompanying profile notes that the firm has “added to its investigations practice over the past year by recruiting big-name lawyers in New York and London,” and references several FCPA-related matters handled by the firm, including its representation of a group of shareholders in Africo Resources Limited who sued for restitution in an FCPA investigation against Och-Ziff, representation of several large cybersecurity companies in various FCPA investigations being conducted by the DOJ and SEC, representation of a computer scientist at a Chinese university who faced a charge of wire fraud conspiracy, and representation of witnesses in connection with an ongoing investigation into alleged corruption involving the Venezuelan state-owned oil and natural gas company PDVSA. The profile also highlights the practices of partners Caz Hashemi, Tarek Helou, Leo Cunningham, and Moe Fodeman, and mentions the recent hires of Jessica Lonergan and Mike Casey, as well as the return of Beth George.
For more information on the 2021 GIR 100 recognition, please click here.
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8.02.21
Wilson Sonsini Named a “Delaware Powerhouse” by Law360
Wilson Sonsini was one of five firms honored as 2021 “Delaware Powerhouses” by Law360 as part of the publication’s 2021 Regional Powerhouses feature. According to Law360, Delaware has long been a special arena among the nation’s centers for bankruptcy, patent, corporate, and complex commercial litigation, and these five firms “consistently excell[ed] even after the global pandemic rewrote practice and courtroom playbooks.”
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6.20.19
Delaware Supreme Court Offers Guidance on Board Oversight Obligations
On June 18, 2019, the Delaware Supreme Court issued an opinion addressing the fiduciary obligation of directors and officers to exercise proper oversight over the corporation and to implement a system of controls to ensure the corporation's legal compliance.
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5.01.19
DOJ Issues Guidance for Evaluating Corporate Compliance Programs
May 1, 2019
On April 30, 2019, Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski announced the release of an updated version of the Criminal Division's "The Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs" during a keynote address at the Ethics and Compliance Initiative 2019 Annual Impact Conference.