A team with ‘great experience and a strong strategic mindset', the corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense group at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP represents clients in both civil and criminal proceedings, and routinely appears before the full range of US regulatory authorities. The group is highly experienced in cross-border matters, and also excels in conducting internal and whistleblowing investigations on behalf of corporations and their boards. Both in New York, the practice is co-led by Matthew Schwartz, who specializes in global investigations, cross-border enforcement actions, and high-stakes trial work, representing clients such as financial institutions, multinational companies, as well as prominent individuals, and Peter Skinner, who is proficient in cross-border criminal, regulatory, and internal investigations, and is knowledgeable in issues relating to national-security, sanctions, and corruption.
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Testimonials
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‘The team has great experience and a strong strategic mindset.’
‘Martin de Luca is clearly one of the top lawyers in the field.’
‘The team has a great strategic mindset. They are working on some of the leading cases in this field at the time.’
Key clients
- BTA Bank JSC
- Prince Holding Group
- Smartmatic-Total Information Management 2016 Inc
- Rumble, Inc.
- Red Mango Enterprises
- Red Granite Pictures Inc.
- Antara Capital and AROD Inc.
- En+
- Omni Healthcare Inc.
- Dreamland Baby Co.
- Pacific Spotters
- Class of Google Consumers
- Migrant Farmworkers
- Former Olympic snowboarders
- Drew Dixon, former Def Jam Recordings Executive
- Robert L. Leeds III
- Devon Archer
- Ajita Abraham, on behalf of A.A. (a minor)
- Christopher Drummond
- Ryan Berris
Work highlights
Secured a verdict worth more than $100m on behalf of the City of Almaty and BTA Bank JSC in the retrial of Felix Sater, a former associate of Donald Trump, that accused Sater of laundering money stolen from Almaty and BTA Bank through various U.S. real estate projects and investments.
Representing Prince Holding Group, a large Cambodian enterprise, and Chen Zhi, in an alleged cryptocurrency scam in a record-setting $15 billion forfeiture action.
Representing SMMT-TIM 2016 in DOJ’s FCPA investigation of Smartmatic and SMMT-TIM 2016 related to a scheme in which Smartmatic executives allegedly bribed a former Philippine election official to secure contracts for voting machines.
Practice head
Matthew Schwartz; Peter Skinner
Other key lawyers
John Zach; Kenya Davis; Alison Anderson; John Kucera; Martin De Luca; Craig Wenner; Blake Goebel; Sabina Mariella; Dan Boyle; Andrew Smith