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Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in 2010
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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.
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.
Sven Stumbauer
Director, Forensic Advisory Services
KPMG LLP
Sven Stumbauer, Director, KPMG Forensic. Sven joined KPMG’s Forensic practice in October of 2004. Prior to joining KPMG ForensicSM, Sven worked with the NASD (National Association of Security Dealers) as a Compliance Examiner. His prior experience includes Financial and AML/U.S. Patriot Act compliance audits of broker/dealers as well as securities fraud examinations.
Sven has substantial experience leading and coordinating Forensic advisory engagements in the financial services industry. He has served as leader for planning, execution, and delivery of investigations, bribery and corruption (FCPA) due diligence and anti-money laundering gap assessments, independent assessments of financial institutions’ Anti-Money Laundering Programs, validation of transaction monitoring systems and fraud investigations in the United States, throughout Europe and Russia, the Caribbean Islands, Latin America and Asia. He has also provided subject matter knowledge and guidance to leading financial institutions on controls to comply with the Bank Secrecy Act and the USA PATRIOT Act.
Sven is fluent in English, German, Czech and Slovak, and possesses a working knowledge of Russian and Spanish. Sven has extensive international professional experience, providing advisory services to clients in the United States, throughout Europe and Russia, the Caribbean Islands, Central and South America and Asia. Sven currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Florida International Bankers Association (FIBA) as well as co-chair of the FIBA Broker/Dealer Committee.
Manny Alas
Partner
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Manny A. Alas is a Partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Advisory practice. He is based in the firm’s New York Office. With over 27 years of professional experience, Mr. Alas leads the firm’s New York Forensic Services Practice group and is the Co-Leader of PwC’s FCPA practice. His FCPA expertise includes investigations, compliance programs, controls implementation, pre and post merger compliance due diligence as well as training programs. He provides specialized advisory services to boards of directors, audit committees, senior company management, attorneys including chief financial officers, general counsel and compliance officers.
Mr. Alas’ area of anti-corruption expertise includes fraud investigations, forensic accounting, compliance controls and remediation programs. In 2008, he was selected by Ethisphere as one of the top "100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics." Mr. Alas has led a variety of significant international and domestic corruption investigations covering such areas as, accounting fraud, asset diversion, foreign corrupt practice investigations, money laundering and Ponzi schemes. He assists clients and law firms with investigations before the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as foreign regulators.
Mr. Alas has lead a number of multi-national prominent FCPA M&A cases. His expertise includes developing and implementing post-acquisition compliance integration
Mr. Alas’ diversified anti-corruption experience includes such industry sectors as: Aerospace and Defense, Agriculture, Automotive, Banking and Capital Markets, Entertainment, Energy, Industrial Products, Hospitality and Leisure, Not-for-Profit, Pharmaceutical, Real Estate, Retail and Consumer, Sports, Technology and Utilities.
Mr. Alas earned his BSA degree from Villanova University. He is a Certified Public Accountant and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants (NYSSCPA). He is a former member of the Nassau Chapter of NYSSCPA's Litigation Support Committee as well as its Investigative/Forensic Accounting subcommittee. He is a regular speaker at national and international anti-corruption conferences and is a featured FCPA speaker at the ACI FCPA conferences.
Mr. Alas has lectured as a guest accounting and auditing instructor at Villanova University, Columbia University, Notre Dame, St. John’s University and Georgetown University. He is proficient in written and spoken Spanish. In addition, he is the past President of a not-for-profit organization that organizes and manages youth programs for over 25,000 Long Island youth.
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