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Portland, ME, US

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

Portland, Maine, US

• Designed and implemented a new corporate compliance program for a $4B public/private company with over 6,000 employees in 20+ countries, focusing on anti-bribery and anti-corruption, antitrust, data privacy, human.
• Authored and implemented a new suite of global compliance policies
• Established new screening and due diligence program for export market distributors and other high-risk business partners
• Audited foreign subsidiaries to assess compliance risk and effectiveness of corporate compliance program implementation
• Conducted and managed internal investigations involving non-HR related allegations globally
• Managed high-risk, non-employment government investigations and litigation matters globally, including reporting to key stakeholders

Warsaw, Indiana, US

Warsaw, Indiana, US

• Led global internal investigation function, including directing in-house attorneys and outside counsel on investigations from initiation through remediation
• Responded to requests from the DOJ and SEC, and regularly presented to Corporate Compliance Monitors
• Oversaw day-to-day management of the Global Compliance Hotline
• Authored and implemented new compliance policies and procedures, including a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics
• Overhauled screening and due diligence program for distributors, sales agents, and other business partners
• Audited foreign subsidiaries to assess compliance risk and effectiveness of corporate compliance program implementation

Washington, DC, US

LAW 749-001: White Collar Crime

San Francisco, CA, US

• Returned to Zimmer Pte. Ltd. in Singapore for second 15-month secondment as Director of Legal & Compliance for the Asia-Pacific region: - Managed global Compliance integration activities for Zimmer’s $13.4B acquisition.
• Interviewed employees and third-party representatives in Morocco and Ghana as part of a global anti-corruption compliance risk assessment for a US multinational energy company
• Conducted pre-acquisition compliance due diligence in Japan for a US multinational technology company
• Represented a US publicly traded company in a DOJ investigation into potential FCPA violations in Egypt
• Provided anti-corruption compliance training for a US multinational energy company’s joint venture partner in Indonesia

Global, GB

• Investigated potential FCPA and UK Bribery Act violations by a multinational transportation company’s third-party agents in Costa Rica, Greece, Haiti, India & Thailand leading to a global compliance review of.
• Designed and conducted a global anti-corruption compliance risk assessment of a multinational company
• Co-managed a 40+ attorney document review in France for two months as part of an internal investigation into potential FCPA violations for a multinational company
• Conducted attorney proffer session for general counsel of multinational engineering company under investigation by DOJ and SEC for potential FCPA violations
• Authored and revised anti-corruption compliance policies for companies in the life sciences, energy, manufacturing, automotive, venture capital/private equity, aviation, and insurance industries
• Conducted pre-acquisition anti-corruption due diligence for three multi-billion dollar mergers involving 50 countries

New York, New York, US

• Assessed and revised the structure and operation of a Fortune 10 energy company’s global compliance and ethics program
• Conducted on-site FCPA compliance assessments of multinational companies’ operations in China and India
• Investigated whistleblower allegations of fraud and self-dealing at a Hungarian subsidiary of a US company
• Authored a comprehensive anti-corruption compliance policy and guide for a US trade association
• Managed document collection, review, and production of 600,000 pages to the SEC on behalf of a publicly traded US company under investigation for alleged securities fraud, insider trading, and Regulation FD violations

Washington, DC, US

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