Corporate Criminal Risk
Assessing criminal-law exposure in business operations, governance and fund flows, and responding to investigations.
Corporate Criminal Risk
Typical situations
- A company or its executives are under investigation, and accounts or assets have been frozen.
- Internal use of funds, approval authority or the business model may raise criminal-law risk.
- An employee is suspected of embezzlement or misappropriation, and the company must decide how to respond.
What the work involves
Helping companies and their management identify risks, organize the facts and evidence, examine decision-making authority and fund flows, and weigh possible responses. The scope of work is agreed according to each matter.
Selected matters: the defense of a technology executive at a subsidiary of a well-known internet company, which ended without prosecution and with company and personal assets unfrozen; and an alleged embezzlement and misappropriation case in which the line between a corporate funding dispute and individual criminal liability was drawn, and the client was not prosecuted.