White Collar Litigation and Investigations

Reinhart’s White Collar Litigation and Investigations Group is a multidisciplinary team of attorneys that counsels clients who are either targets, subjects, witnesses or victims of white collar civil and criminal fraud. In many cases, such counsel is related to ongoing federal and state enforcement actions and investigations. In other instances, our team works to assist clients in its fact-finding process as part of a defense to civil or criminal allegations or to determine whether grounds exist to bring an action against a third party, or seek government resources to prosecute the same, where the client has been the victim of unlawful—often fraudulent—conduct.

We represent clients in complex regulatory enforcement actions requiring substantial resources under the pressure of short time frames. Such matters have involved the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), various government funding programs and the state equivalents of these federal agencies. We also represent public sector institutions that have been the victim of fraud such as state public pension funds, clients in the health care, defense, industrial and technology sectors.

Such cases have been grounded in violations of the federal and state criminal codes, breaches of fiduciary duty, common law fraud and other subject specific crimes or civil prosecutions. In addition, we have extensive experience in connection with leading internal investigations, whether as independent counsel to Special Litigation Committees in shareholder derivative claims, or representing victim companies who have suffered substantial losses through the conduct of employees—often involving the unlawful conduct of third parties from whom recoveries can be realized.

Our Team

Our White Collar Litigation and Investigations Group is effective because of the diverse and substantial experience of its team members. Led by Mark Cameli and Ryan Stippich, it is comprised of former state and federal prosecutors and attorneys with combined decades of experience in these matters. Our cost-effective solutions are driven by a depth of knowledge and volume of successful resolutions that meets and exceeds that of the largest coastal firms in America, but with midwestern rates. We have substantial internal resources and advanced tools that greatly reduce costs by leveraging technology and allocating work to the most competent professionals who bill at the most cost-effective rates.

We partner with subject matter experts in other departments of the firm, such as our Corporate Law, Health Care, Institutional Investor Services, Consumer Finance and Tax practices, to bring the best legal counsel to bear on our clients’ most sensitive matters. We also have developed a network of outside consultants and experts to assist and evaluate the liability exposure and claim valuation presented for claims by or against its clients. Our team acts like in-house company counsel and accordingly utilizes services beyond the four walls of our law firm—often recommending the involvement of law firms besides our own. Our array of outside resources includes access to forensic technology experts who train law enforcement, accountants, valuation and materiality experts and a host of others who assist our team with bringing the most expertise and cost-effective solutions to a client in their most challenging moments.

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