Top FCPA Enforcement Lawyer Mark F. Mendelsohn Joins Paul, Weiss
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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP announced today
that prominent Department of Justice prosecutor Mark F.
Mendelsohn will join its Litigation Department as a member of
the firm's White Collar Crime & Regulatory Defense and
Securities Litigation practices. Mr. Mendelsohn will be resident in
the firm's Washington, D.C. office effective June 1, 2010. Mr.
Mendelsohn is currently the Deputy Chief of the Fraud Section of
the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice
(DOJ), and is internationally acknowledged and respected as the
architect and key enforcement official of the DOJ's Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement program.
"Mark has an impressive reputation for having built the DOJ's
modern FCPA program, for dramatically increasing the level and
sophistication of FCPA enforcement around the globe, and for
underscoring the critical importance of anti-corruption
compliance," said Paul, Weiss chair Brad S. Karp. "Mark's
background and experience will be an enormous asset to our clients,
which are facing increased scrutiny on FCPA and other cross-border
criminal and regulatory issues. We are very fortunate that he has
chosen to join Paul, Weiss, where his counseling and unique
experience in FCPA matters will be an invaluable resource to our
clients and within our firm."
Kenneth A.
Gallo, managing partner of Paul, Weiss's D.C. office, noted:
"We are absolutely delighted to have Mark join our expanding and
highly talented team of litigators in D.C. Mark's considerable FCPA
expertise complements well the services we currently offer clients
in antitrust, product liability, securities and patent litigation,
as well as our securities enforcement, internal investigation and
white collar practices. We are proud that such talented lawyers
continue to choose to join our firm to help us better serve our
clients."
Mr. Mendelsohn stated: "I am very excited to become part of such
a highly regarded and storied firm as Paul, Weiss. In making this
decision, I was attracted by the opportunity to work with such a
dynamic and exceptional group of lawyers who are regularly
entrusted with their clients' most sensitive matters. I was equally
drawn by the incredible collegiality and strong democratic
tradition of the firm, its deep and talented bench of litigators,
and its sophisticated, global client base. I look forward to
working closely with the firm's clients and assisting them with
their most complex, transnational regulatory and compliance
challenges."
In his most recent position as Deputy Chief of the Fraud
Section, Mr. Mendelsohn designed and implemented the DOJ's current
FCPA enforcement program. He was responsible for overseeing all
investigations and prosecutions under the FCPA, had principal
policy responsibility related to the OECD Anti-bribery Convention,
and was the Department's representative on the OECD's Bribery
Working Group. Prior to joining the Fraud Section, Mr. Mendelsohn
was senior counsel in the DOJ's Computer Crime and Intellectual
Property Section in Washington, D.C., and prior to that served for
nearly six years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S.
Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York. In that
capacity, he handled white collar, money laundering, FCPA, computer
crime and intellectual property prosecutions, and was a founding
member and cohead of the office's Computer Hacking and Intellectual
Property Unit.
Mr. Mendelsohn clerked for the Honorable Denny Chin, United
States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, from
1997-1998. He is currently a visiting professor at the University
of Virginia School of Law and has also been an adjunct
lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School. He received his B.A. from
Yale University in 1989, and a J.D. from the University of Virginia
School of Law in 1993.
April 16, 2010
