In the Media
Seth Farber Discusses International Corporate Criminal Defense in Q&A with Corporate Crime Reporter
In the Media
October 10, 2023
In a Q&A with Corporate Crime Reporter, Winston & Strawn partner Seth Farber spoke on topics including the ebb and flow of activity in corporate criminal enforcement, the international focus of his practice, shifts within the corporate criminal defense practice, and more.
Seth discussed how his practice has become more internationally focused in the past ten to fifteen years, noting that in the past five years he has represented companies in Latin America in connection with various United States enforcement matters, including some Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) cases. He stated that he believes the international area is so significant because the U.S. standards and compliance expectations are often different from what they are in the home countries of multinational corporations.
“[The] Justice Department is quite aggressive in making use of what extra territorial tools it has – and it has a number of them,” he stated. “[P]ut those things together – the lack of similar governance structures [and] similar compliance cultures in some other regions compared to what you would have in the United States and it leads to areas that are . . . more fertile for the Department to look at.”
