Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Financial Services Disputes and Investigations

Senior Counsel - Litigations and Investigations

Mark Srere is the Leader of the White Collar Practice Group.  He defends individual and corporate clients in a variety of industries, including telecommunications, higher education, energy, and manufacturing, that are targets of criminal prosecution, from grand jury appearances to trial.  Using the insight and knowledge gained through his criminal trial practice, he is ideally situated to counsel corporate clients on compliance issues and internal investigations.

For more than 30 years, Mark has worked with his clients to explain the challenges posed by intense government scrutiny and to develop strategies to survive the roller coaster ahead. He has a broad range of experience conducting internal investigations and the defense of criminal and civil actions involving Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations, accounting fraud, disclosure issues, internal controls and corporate governance, tax fraud, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and export/control concerns, Nuclear Regulatory Commission investigations, Drug Enforcement Agency issues and major fraud investigations. He has been involved in all aspects of the SEC’s enforcement program including the Wells process and the emerging issues surrounding the agency’s whistleblower programs and employee protections thereunder.

To avoid the back-end government complications, Mark also partners with his clients to understand their business operations and goals before drafting policies, implementing compliance programs and addressing due diligence issues that arise from mergers and acquisitions, hiring of agents and joint ventures, as well as designing training programs in the anti-corruption and whistleblower areas.

For 20 years, Mark served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he taught International White Collar Crime. He is also a frequent author and speaker on a range of subjects related to white collar crime.

Board of Trustees for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 2015 - present Board of Trustees for the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, 2000-2011 Board of Directors for the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, 2000-2011