New DOJ Playbook: Minimizing FCPA Risk, Targeted Enforcement, Investigations, Third-Party Management, Disclosures

Mr. Funk, a former Chicago federal prosecutor and conflict-deployed State Department attorney in Kosovo, has represented clients in many consequential and highly publicized cases in the United States and abroad. He successfully first-chaired dozens of federal and state civil and criminal trials, briefed and argued more than 20 federal and state appeals, directed more than 500 investigations, and argued more than 700 in-court evidentiary hearings and other contested proceedings. A fellow of the American Law Institute who is Chambers ranked Band 1 locally, as well as nationally and globally, and is a multiple "Lawyer of the Year" recipient, Mr. Funk uniquely received both the DOJ's prestigious Attorney General's Award for the nation's top trial performance and the US State Department's Superior Honor Award. He has taught classes and lectured on supply chain compliance, investigations, and related topics at institutions including the University of Chicago, Havard, Yale, the World Bank, and Oxford (he received his PhD from the latter) and is the author of, among other articles and books, From Baksheesh to Bribery: Understanding the Global Fight Against Corruption and Graft (Oxford University Press) and The ABA Compliance Officer’s Deskbook (American Bar Association). 

Ms. Hanft is a partner in the Litigation Department, where she focuses on white collar criminal defense and regulatory enforcement matters, internal investigations and other complex litigation. Before joining Paul, Weiss, Ms. Hanft spent almost nine years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Most recently, she served as co-chief of the General Crimes Unit, where she supervised hundreds of investigations spanning an array of subject matter, including fraud, cybercrime, money laundering, corruption, violent crime and sex trafficking. Before that, Ms. Hanft was a senior member of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, where she investigated and prosecuted insider trading, market manipulation, accounting fraud, and other securities and commodities fraud cases; and a member of the National Security and International Narcotics Unit, where she prosecuted both international and domestic terrorism cases and led sanctions evasion and counterespionage investigations.