White Collar Defense, Investigations & Compliance Counseling
Practice Areas
Financial Services Litigation & Regulation
Strategic Discovery & Information Management
Looking Forward
The Biden DOJ will increase corporate investigations and prosecutions of executives as an outgrowth of the policies it set into motion in 2021, including requiring disclosure of all individual wrongdoers in order to earn corporate cooperation credit and its focus on recidivist corporate conduct. Its new National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team will headline a nationwide and international effort to stymie the use of cryptocurrencies to facilitate criminal activities. Targeted activities will range from the use of crypto as a means of payment in ransomware attacks; crypto to facilitate illegal trade, money laundering and tax avoidance; and pump-and-dump schemes targeting crypto investors. In carrying out this aggressive agenda, expect greater global enforcement collaboration on the anti-bribery front and more generally.