Quinn Emanuel's White Collar Criminal Defense and Internal Investigations Practice Group represents prominent domestic and foreign corporations, special committees and boards of directors, as well as individuals, in high profile criminal investigations, administrative enforcement hearings, trials and appeals. Based in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Silicon Valley, attorneys in this practice group are regularly retained to represent witnesses, subjects and targets of grand jury investigations, enforcement actions and criminal proceedings in industries ranging from securities, defense, and banking, to health care, entertainment, pharmaceuticals, and technology.
Whether negotiating with the government or litigating against it, the key to our success is our experience. Our nationally recognized group includes over a dozen former federal and state prosecutors, including alumni of the United States Attorney's Offices, as well as a former United States Attorney. We recognize that the best result for our clients is to avoid the filing of criminal charges. Our attorneys have extensive experience working with government attorneys and know how prosecutors investigate and make charging decisions. We know how to effectively engage government investigators in negotiations and have had tremendous success in convincing the government not to file criminal charges or to dismiss criminal charges and accept alternative dispositions after cases have been filed. In cases where dismissal of criminal charges is not an option, we assist clients in evaluating the risks in going to trial and when necessary have tried cases on their behalf.
We are regularly retained to conduct corporate internal investigations as well. A prominent national publication recently listed Quinn Emanuel first among the leading law firms with the highest number of stock option "backdating" matters representing corporations and board committees. In fact, we were retained in one of the most high-profile of these investigations, when at the request of former Vice President Al Gore, we conducted a Special Committee investigation into Apple Computer's historical stock option practices. Following the completion of our seven-month investigation, the SEC took the highly unusual step of praising our investigative work and specifically cited the quality of our investigation as an affirmative factor in the Commission's ultimate decision to refrain from charging Apple with securities violations.
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