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Defend and advise Teva and subsidiary companies in most complex domestic and foreign pre-litigation and litigation disputes, and law enforcement, regulatory, and congressional investigations, including, for example, opioid and civil price-fixing multi-district litigations, criminal price-fixing litigation, securities class actions, and commercial disputes, and investigations related to the False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Statute, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.Develop litigation, trial, and investigations strategies across domestic and international jurisdictions; collaborate with Teva’s leadership across functions to ensure alignment between Teva’s business objectives and litigation and investigation strategies; select and manage outside counsel for Teva’s litigations and investigations to ensure execution on those strategies.Create and manage large litigation and investigations budgets, ensuring cost-effective allocation of resources; evaluate outside counsel and other vendor performance; negotiate cost-effective fee arrangements with vendors.Advise Teva’s senior leadership regarding material litigation risks and collaborate with leadership to apprise investors of those risks in Teva’s public filings; work with accounting team to calculate reserve for material litigation, and brief Teva’s external auditors regarding litigation and investigations risks.Negotiate settlements and manage consequences of those resolutions, including advising senior leadership regarding high-risk terminations of employees, necessary changes to internal policy, and development of new trainings and communications to strengthen compliance.Supervise multiple large case teams of lawyers and other legal professionals.Develop proactive and reactive communication plans regarding litigations and investigations in partnership with communications and investor relations teams.

Advise on government investigations, anti-corruption compliance matters, including daily counsel, risk assessments and audits, investments, contract negotiation, company policies, and employee training. Manage a portfolio of high-stakes and high-profile litigation including class actions and securities. Work with Teva's management to identify, investigate, and resolve complex legal and compliance issues while ensuring business objectives are met.

Investigated and prosecuted a wide range of crimes including various frauds, identity theft, theft of government funds, crimes against children, environmental crime, interstate transportation of stolen property, narcotics and firearm offenses.Delivered arguments in numerous criminal proceedings and drafted briefs, letters, memoranda and variety of other written work product; prepared witnesses for trials, hearings, and grand jury testimony.

Managed day-to-day operations of office of 40 attorneys, paralegals, and administrative staff, while maintaining my own docket of cases, recruiting attorneys and paralegals, developing and administering training programs, and mentoring staff. Worked with D.C. leadership on policy matters and helped spearhead the overhaul of the Division's practices regarding e-discovery and its use of technology.Advised case teams on substantive issues and liaised with other DOJ components and other domestic and foreign law enforcement partners to ensure efficient prosecutions of multinational companies and individuals. Independently identified groups of potential consumers effected by antitrust crimes, and delivered trainings to those groups to help them identify warnings signs of anticompetitive conduct.Conducted preliminary internal investigation related to sexual harassment allegations and gender-based inequality in the office. Interviewed victim and accused supervisor, collected evidence, and made disciplinary recommendation to acting chief and employment counsel. Coordinated with diversity committee and staff to institute more robust anti-discrimination and diversity trainings in the office.

Led multiple teams investigating international and domestic conspiracies to commit fraud, criminal violations of the Sherman Act and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and other crimes related to consumer protection and corruption of competitive procurement processes.Interviewed key witnesses, drafted legal briefs, memoranda, search warrants, and subpoenas. Negotiated subpoenas and collection of all electronic evidence with defense counsel. Oversaw collection, review, and outgoing productions of millions of documents in multiple criminal cases.

Complex civil litigation experience included representing monoline insurers in litigations against sponsors of mortgage-backed securities; managing junior attorneys, paralegals, and trial consultants; designing web-based expert-reporting platform for use at trial; and supervising key litigation experts across multiple cases; taking and defending depositions, and drafting pleadings, discovery materials, briefs, and various legal memoranda; developing case and project budgets.Regulatory and enforcement experience included representation of Fortune 100 company in connection with investigation by federal and state prosecutors into allegations of fraud and government corruption, advising client regarding case strategy, conducting internal investigation, interviewing witnesses, and directing the collection and production of electronic documents.Negotiated discovery matters with opposing counsel; researched complex legal issues, wrote legal briefs and memoranda, and participated in an arbitration.

Represented one of the world’s largest banks and provided advice regarding criminal, regulatory, and civil penalties in connection with investigations by federal, state, and international prosecutors and regulators into allegations of fraud and price fixing in the foreign exchange (FX) market.Supervised outside counsel, drafted memoranda, briefs, and letters to opposing counsel and regulators.Examined data privacy developments in Europe and Asia and advised clients regarding data collection from jurisdictions outside the U.S. for production in U.S. litigation.Analyzed complex transactions, negotiated settlements, and advised business regarding legal exposure.Conducted employee interviews for internal investigations; supervised e-discovery.

Drafted opinions in civil and criminal cases involving securities fraud, RICO, civil rights violations, trademark and copyright infringement, and breach of contract.Conducted voir dire in civil trial, and drafted civil and criminal jury instructions and verdict sheets.