About

Number of years practice: 13 Principal practice areas: Anti-corruption/international risk, government investigations, litigation Bar admissions: Illinois, US Court of Appeals (Sixth Circuit) Languages spoken: English and Spanish

A white-collar crime and investigations specialist, Nicholas Berg’s recent matters include the investigation and resolution of a multi-country FCPA matter involving a public company with extensive operations in Mexico. Berg and his team also helped one of the world’s largest private equity company with diligence matters, facilitating the completion of a very large sale-and-leaseback transaction of pipeline assets with a subsidiary of PEMEX. Under the terms of the leasing agreement, PEMEX will submit an annual compliance monitoring report to the client and take certain steps to audit and control risk in its third-party service provider engagements. Indeed, the anti-corruption and anti-fraud controls that Berg has helped clients put in place in Mexico have increasingly come to be seen as best practice in the area and have encouraged other companies in the oil-and-gas space in Mexico to improve their anti-corruption efforts. His other mandates include representing a number of other public and private companies in bribery and fraud investigations involving the jurisdiction.