Morrison Foerster

Morrison Foerster has an established investigations and white-collar defence practice, which has a fine record in Latin America cases. The Latin America-focused group is complemented by the firm’s prominent global privacy practice and in-house forensic accounting group. The team includes three former managers from the DOJ Criminal Division’s fraud section, including Washington DC partner Charles Duross, who is active in Latin America cases. Of late, the group has continued to advise on internal investigations, defence of clients before the DOJ and SEC, compliance programmes and transaction due diligence. It continues to represent multinational clients and financial institutions from around the world in large-scale investigations involving their Latin America operations. New York partner Ruti Smithline is co-chair of the investigations and white-collar defence practice group and co-chair of the Latin America department; she was born and raised in Colombia and is a fluent Spanish speaker. Washington DC’s John Smith previously served as a top official at OFAC and is actively engaged in Latin America matters.