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    Congressional Investigations

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    Sullivan & Cromwell represents companies and individuals in congressional investigations, including high-profile investigations of great importance.

    The Congressional Investigations Group has a long history of guiding clients through their most critical investigations, bringing to bear insights from the Firm’s pre-eminent transactional and litigation practices. This multidisciplinary approach provides clients invaluable insights on how best to navigate often-unpredictable investigations, providing the best results possible—on and off Capitol Hill.

    S&C’s advice is not limited to the four corners of the investigation: It extends to the broader effects that it may have on client operations, in litigation and other investigations, and in interactions with regulators.

    Investigative Bodies

    S&C has advised on investigations by many congressional committees and investigative commissions, including:

    • the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations;
    • the Senate Judiciary Committee;
    • the Senate Banking Committee;
    • the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee;
    • the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform;
    • the House Financial Services Committee; and
    • investigative bodies, such as the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.

    Witness Preparation

    The Firm has prepared many prominent witnesses for testimony, including:

    • chief executive officers and other executives from the world’s foremost financial institutions and industrial companies;
    • witnesses central to national events, such as the 2008 financial crisis; and
    • Supreme Court justices, other judges and cabinet members in confirmation, oversight and investigative hearings.

    S&C lawyers have handled congressional investigations from both sides of the dais:

    • as congressional staffers, including as chief counsel for the Senate Banking Committee; and
    • as officials in the executive branch, including in the White House and in the leadership of the Justice Department.
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    Experience

    Experience

    S&C lawyers have handled congressional investigations from both sides of the dais:

    • as congressional staffers, including as chief counsel for the Senate Banking Committee; and
    • as officials in the executive branch, including in the White House and in the leadership of the Justice Department.

    Recent Sullivan & Cromwell experience before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations includes representations of:

    • JPMorgan Chase (as purchaser of the assets of Washington Mutual Bank), Goldman Sachs and Moody’s, in a televised PSA investigation focused on mortgage originators and securitizers, ratings agencies and investment banks that dealt in securitized mortgages.
    • Barclays and another financial institution, in connection with an investigation of speculation in the natural gas markets in 2007.

    • CA, in connection with an investigation into offshore tax avoidance.
    • Riggs Bank, in an investigation into money laundering and USA PATRIOT Act compliance.
    • a major financial institution, in an investigation into the role of financial institutions in Enron’s collapse.

    Recent S&C congressional investigations includes representations of:

    • several major financial institutions that received Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds and had received inquiries from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform relating to post-TARP compensation practices.
    • an American bank, in an inquiry by the Senate Finance Committee into allegedly improper contacts with a federal regulatory agency.
    • UBS, in connection with an investigation by the House Energy and Commerce Committee into its awareness of accounting fraud by a major client of the bank.

    Historical S&C congressional investigations include representations of:

    • Microsoft, in a high-profile Senate Judiciary Committee inquiry in 1998 regarding antitrust issues, including advising the company’s chief executive officer in connection with his testimony before the committee.
    • Clinton legal defense fund trustees, in 1997 investigations conducted by the Senate Government Affairs Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee relating to alleged campaign finance abuses.
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    Rankings and Recognitions

    Rankings and Recognitions

    • S&C’s Criminal Defense and Investigations Practice Ranks Highly in GIR 30 2019

      November 4, 2019
    • S&C Named a Finalist for White-Collar Litigation Department of the Year by The American Lawyer in 2019

      October 1, 2019
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    News

    • Stanford Law School 24th Annual Stanford Directors’ College

      June 24-26, 2018
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    Publications, Videos and Podcasts

    • U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Review Standing of Data Breach Plaintiffs

      S&C Memos |  February 21, 2018
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