Experience

• Ms. Sloane has played key roles in numerous investigations by the DOJ and SEC, as well as many corporate internal investigations, and has led global FCPA due diligence reviews in several multi-billion-dollar M&A transactions. She has also been involved in securing a number of nonpublic prosecution declinations by the DOJ and SEC in connection with possible FCPA violations by various multinational clients. A select list of her recent experience includes:

  • serving as the DOJ/SEC appointed independent FCPA compliance monitor for a German-based supplier of global dialysis products and services in connection with the company’s $231 million resolution of  charges that it violated the FCPA;
  • representing a major foreign technology conglomerate in ongoing SEC and DOJ investigations into allegations of FCPA violations at a US-based avionics subsidiary;
  • representing a major media and communications company in connection with the successful resolution of the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York's investigation into its Argentine joint venture's role in the FIFA corruption scandal; 
  • representing a multinational industrial company in an investigation of self-disclosed alleged FCPA violations related to its China-based marine business, resulting in a successful settlement from the SEC and a declination from the DOJ;
  • securing a favorable SEC settlement and DOJ declination on behalf a US-based oilfield services company in connection with a global FCPA investigation involving allegations of improper payments to a Mexican foreign official;
  • representing a major multinational industrial conglomerate in a DOJ and SEC investigation into government sales in the Middle East, resulting in non-public declinations from both agencies;
  • leading a global due diligence review of more than 150 third-party advisors in more than 30 countries in connection with a criminal investigation of a large defense contractor and manufacturer by the DOJ and UK Serious Fraud Office;
  • representing a major US multinational industrial conglomerate in pre- and post-close due diligence investigations of an acquisition target, ultimately resulting in non-public declinations from both the DOJ and SEC;
  • representing a global manufacturer in resolutions with the DOJ, SEC, Department of Treasury and Department of Commerce of charges relating to improper kickbacks under the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program, violations of the FCPA and violations of US export laws;
  • representing a major Wall Street broker dealer in connection with parallel criminal and civil investigations of a former bond trader;
  • representing an international financial services firm in an insider trading prosecution of a former investment bank employee;
  • representing a former Congressman and Reagan budget director in connection with parallel civil and criminal securities and accounting fraud cases, including successfully obtaining a nolle prosecui of the criminal indictment; and
  • participating in a secondment to the internal investigations group of a multinational pharmaceutical corporation.