ttorneys at Reinhardt Savic Foley have broad experience representing companies and individual and advising in connection with government and regulatory investigations concerning allegations of professional misconduct, fraud, insider trading, money laundering, foreign practices. Members of our team have regularly acted in connection with formal investigations and informal inquiries by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Department of Justice (DOJ) and other regulatory agencies. Our proven experience with the procedures and personnel at agencies such as the SEC allows us to tailor our strategy and advice to pragmatically navigate our clients through the issues at risk and effectively advocate against possible enforcement action. We have advised clients from pre-investigation disclosures, prevention and mitigation to defense of, and cooperation with, government investigation including responses to DOJ subpoenas, and through to resolution by settlement or formal proceedings.

Members of the Reinhardt Savic Foley team are also experienced in whistleblower matters having advised for both individual whistleblowers and entities against which allegations are made. In either case, our approach is the same; thoroughly evaluate the validity of the claims, assess the situation and related risks, provide a comprehensive strategy built on straightforward advice, and counsel our clients to the best possible resolution.

With a global team comprising former government attorneys and prosecutors, financial regulators, international lawyers, investigative lawyers, and civil defense attorneys, Reinhardt Savic Foley is also well situated to navigate our clients through government and regulatory investigations in the US and many regions of the world. We are also able to advise on remedial strategies and conduct compliance reviews as well as preventative measures such as employee and employer training and corporate compliance strategies.

ultinational corporations to small family owned and operated businesses alike all have a significant interest in establishing company protocols and standards of conduct, ensuring their employees follow those standards to avoid misconduct, and having robust investigations to address any allegations or instances of misconduct. The involvement of legal counsel from the inception to conclusion of internal corporate and employee related investigation is crucial to ensure the most comprehensive, resilient, and efficient inquiry. Reinhardt Savic Foley’s experienced team can counsel employers where a complaint or allegation has been made against an employee or company executive, and manage the resulting crisis, while undertaking a thorough investigation and advising on resolution.

Reinhardt Savic Foley’s team also has a wealth of experience representing employees on a wide range of matters from hostile work environment and harassment related allegations to internal whistleblowing on corporate misconduct. Our attorneys can provide effective and considered advice to an employee first having concerns to advocating for, and securing, remedial measures and compensation for employees involved.

Our broadly experienced global team can undertake business related due diligence reviews in anticipation of joint ventures or as a perquisite to a formal merger and acquisition. Our team can offer a full range of counsel services reviewing and assessing the commercial reputation of domestic and international entities and their directors as well as prepare and advise on crucial legal instruments such as non-disclosure agreements, confidentiality agreements, and joint venture agreements.

he Reinhardt Savic Foley team acquired truly unique investigative experiences with members having worked on large scale governmental investigations and formal public inquiries for the British Government and members of Reinhardt Savic Foley are frequently sought for advice on international law and human rights issues.

A founding member of the firm has acted on the Coroner’s Inquests into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Dodi Al-Fayed, the Baha Mousa and Al-Sweady Public Inquiries investigating allegations of human rights abuses in the post-war occupation of Iraq, and the special investigative commission into the death of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld in 1962. We have gained practical knowledge of instruments such as the ECHR, U.K. HRA, Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and Geneva Conventions as well as extensive specialist experience in the U.K. under the Inquiries Act 2005 and the Inquiry Rules 2006 having worked on matters from witness contact and statement taking, to compiling and serving warning letters, to drafting rulings on protective measures including ciphering.

Members of our team have acted in connection with discrete inquiries locating persons of interests, witness location and contact, and advising in connection with issues such as human trafficking, forced marriage, and child abduction and relocation.