Practices

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Governmental Compliance

The Firm’s attorney roster includes a number of former government prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys, with experience in a wide variety of government investigations. This experience, combined with extensive civil experience in complex business litigation and professional liability cases, uniquely enables NKMS to protect its clients’ interests in the perilous intersection among civil litigation, business interests, and government investigation.

Parallel proceedings in highly regulated industries (civil or administrative matters, simultaneously maintained while criminal investigations also proceed) are now common occurrences. Business and professional clients increasingly find they need counsel who can successfully navigate these potentially dangerous waters to prevent an apparently routine civil matter from becoming one with charges of white collar crime.

Representative areas in which the Firm’s attorneys have worked include:

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations
FINRA investigations and prosecutions
Professional credential investigations and prosecutions
Medicare/Medicaid fraud matters
Actions to bar Government contractors from further bidding
Liquidation actions by State securities act regulators

The Firm’s experience includes:

Successfully convincing the SEC not to recommend an enforcement action against the officers and directors of an investment company, whose partner was charged with the fraudulent loss and defalcation of over $5.0 million in client funds.

Successfully defending the officers and directors of a college against civil and possible criminal charges, when the college president was charged with millions of dollars in fraudulent financial transactions.

Successful prosecution of a healthcare fraud case against a leading practice management consultant for chiropractors.

Successfully convincing the SEC not to recommend an enforcement action against the CEO of a publicly-held airline, after the CEO sold all his stock in the company one month before the company declared bankruptcy.

Successfully defending an accounting firm against shareholder allegations that it had negligently performed an audit which failed to detect $30 million in fraudulent activity by management.

Successful prosecution of officers and directors of various financial institutions for bank fraud.