We have extensive experience representing Boards of Directors, special committees, and directors and officers in matters of corporate governance, and in conducting internal corporate investigations. We are often called upon to assist clients with particularly sensitive matters involving accounting, conflicts of interest, employee, director and management responsibilities and business practices, domestic and foreign. We have broad expertise in developing remedial and compliance plans to appropriately address potential liabilities, and to respond to governmental and regulatory inquiries.
Our practice includes representation of clients in proceedings before Congress, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice, United States Attorneys’ Offices, Office of the Inspector General, State Attorneys General as well as the New York Stock Exchange, NASD, Chicago Board of Options Exchange and other agency investigations and litigations. Cahill represented Homestore, Inc. in investigations initiated by the Department of Justice and SEC in which the U.S. Attorney General and the SEC Director of Enforcement publicly commended the company’s handling of the matter, and, determined to bring no charges against the company. We are representing the Audit Committee of Novell Inc. in its voluntary, independent review of past stock based compensation practices. Also recently we have represented the Independent Directors of Freddie Mac, the Audit Committees of Bausch & Lomb and Molson Coors, and the Special Committee of Abercrombie & Fitch. Our lawyers have represented companies and prominent individuals in formal and informal SEC investigations, DOJ investigations and FTC investigations, resulting in no charges being brought.
We have conducted complex investigations and defended numerous financial institutions, officers and directors, in securities fraud claims. We have represented Fortune 50 companies in matters involving alleged insider trading and successfully represented a company in the multidistrict Enron litigation, which included representation in connection with the government’s Enron Task Force and the criminal trials of Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling. We have conducted internal investigations and represented companies in grand jury matters arising from allegations of price fixing and other antitrust laws. We defended a major travel and leisure company in a three year investigation initiated by the SEC arising from financial restatements that was closed without SEC or other adverse action to our client, as well as that of a leading insurer in connection with the New York Attorney General Office’s inquiry into sales practices in the insurance brokerage industry.
Our team includes the immediate former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and lawyers who joined Cahill following distinguished careers in the Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Treasury Department.
