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Foreign Corrupt Practices Act LIVE webcast: A 2009 Update
Kara Novaco Brockmeyer
Assistant Director, Division of Enforcement
U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
Kara Novaco Brockmeyer is an Assistant Director in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement, where she is responsible for supervising investigations into financial fraud, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, market manipulation, misconduct by regulated entities, and insider trading. Before joining the SEC, she was in private practice in Chicago, primarily in securities and complex commercial litigation. She received her B.A. cum laude from Williams College and her J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was Note Editor of the Michigan Law Review.
Lori Weinstein
Trial Attorney - Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Criminal Division, Fraud Section
U.S. Department of Justice
Ms. Weinstein is a Trial Attorney in the Fraud Section, Criminal Division. She was the first dedicated FCPA enforcement trial attorney hired by the Department of Justice and has served as the lead prosecutor on a number of foreign bribery investigations, including the Siemens case and several investigations relating to the United Nations Oil for Food Program. She has also been involved in analyzing and drafting FCPA Opinion Procedure Releases. In addition, Ms. Weinstein is involved in the Fraud Section’s anti-corruption policy work and speaks publicly at conferences about the Department’s FCPA enforcement policies. Previously, she was a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Maryland, where she handled a variety of criminal investigations and trials.
Prior to joining the Justice Department, Ms. Weinstein practiced in the Compliance and Enforcement group of a New York law firm in both its Washington, D.C. and Paris, France offices, where she represented individuals and Fortune 500 corporate clients in the health care, energy, defense, telecommunications, media and entertainment, and other industries in connection with FCPA counseling, internal and government investigations, due diligence, and compliance program development.
Ms. Weinstein received her juris doctor from the University of Wisconsin Law School and was elected Order of the Coif. She received her B.A. from Boston College, summa cum laude.
Adam Pollitt
Senior Director
First Advantage
From his post in First Advantage Litigation Consulting’s Munich office, Adam leads the company’s operations in Western Europe, and is responsible for directing client services, overseeing project management and spearheading business development. Analyzing situations from both a technical and business process perspective, Adam consults Fortune 500 companies on strategic response to large-scale, multi-jurisdictional investigations and designs workflow for their international counsel. Accounting for the complex intersection of data privacy restrictions and concerns, Adam devises best-practice, custom support solutions, including establishing and managing custom data centers and review teams for high-profile FCPA matters throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
Adam’s broad expertise in e-discovery and litigation support includes electronic evidence recovery, database design, and the application of technology to complex civil litigation, antitrust and arbitration matters. Prior to joining First Advantage Litigation Consulting in 2004, Adam spent eight years at Howrey LLP, where his duties included negotiating and coordinating with the United States’ Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, and Securities Exchange Commission regarding procedures to preserve the chain of custody for discoverable documents. He has extensive experience developing and managing internal strategies for processing evidentiary data as well as leading the expedited delivery of document databases for production-related review and research. Adam oversees the quality of First Advantage’s worldwide Client Services, and is instrumental in the development and deployment of the company’s Litigation Support tools, including new service and technology initiatives.
Adam’s broad subject-matter and international experience makes him a valued speaker at international conferences and seminars. He has a Bachelor of Science in Mass Communication and History from James Madison University.
Gary DiBianco
Partner - Litigation and Government Enforcement Litigation
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Gary DiBianco is a partner in the firm’s London office and heads the London-based Corporate Investigations practice. Mr. DiBianco has extensive experience defending criminal and civil investigations; conducting internal investigations; and defending civil litigation in anti-corruption, fraud, securities and related matters. He has been involved in a number of significant matters representing U.S. and non-U.S. entities in a variety of industries and business sectors, including manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, financial services and professional services. His experience under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and related laws includes global internal investigations, response to Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission inquiries, defense of parallel international enforcement actions and shareholder litigation, and due diligence in connection with corporate transactions. He has performed investigations relating to anti-corruption issues in dozens of countries, including in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.
In addition to representation of clients in investigations and contested proceedings, Mr. DiBianco regularly works with corporations and their boards to provide guidance on compliance and corporate governance issues. He has conducted numerous reviews of corporate compliance provisions and structures, and has advised on improvement of these structures and related policies and procedures designed to prevent and detect potential violations of law.
Until December 2008, Mr. DiBianco was based in the Government Enforcement and Litigation Group in Skadden’s Washington, D.C. office. Prior to joining Skadden, Arps, Mr. DiBianco was a trial attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and was detailed as a special assistant U.S. attorney to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Guy Singer
Partner-Government Investigations/White Collar Defense
Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.
Guy Singer is a partner in Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.'s Washington, D.C. office. Guy focuses on litigation with an emphasis on white-collar and corporate compliance matters. He has experience representing individuals and corporations in all areas of white-collar criminal defense and related civil litigation proceedings. Guy has extensive experience, both as a former prosecutor and in the private sector, in domestic and international corruption investigations.
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act LIVE webcast: A 2009 Update
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