Philip Urofsky
Mr. Urofsky is special counsel in the Business
Fraud and Complex Litigation Group in Cadwalader’s Washington, D.C.
office. Mr. Urofsky advises clients on a wide variety of white
collar criminal and regulatory matters including the Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act, public corruption, securities, mail and wire fraud,
false claims, false statement, and a wide range of complex civil
litigation issues.
Mr. Urofsky served in the Department of Justice
from 1992 to 2004, first as a Trial Attorney, later as a Special
Counsel for International Litigation, and finally as the Assistant
Chief of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section. In those capacities,
he supervised the investigation of and successfully litigated
several major corruption, money laundering, and fraud cases. Mr.
Urofsky holds the distinction of having tried more FCPA matters than
any other Department of Justice attorney and briefed and argued
several of them before the federal Courts of Appeal. He was also one
of the primary authors of the Department of Justice guidelines on
the prosecution of business organizations.
In addition to his extensive litigation
experience, Mr. Urofsky has broad ranging knowledge and expertise in
international business fraud issues. He served for many years as a
delegate to the OECD’s Bribery Working Group and was designated by
the United States as one of its experts for the OECD Convention on
Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials’ peer monitoring
process. In addition, Mr. Urofsky participated in the negotiation of
the Council of Europe Criminal Law Convention on Bribery and advised
on the negotiation of the business corruption articles of several
other international conventions, including the U.N. Convention
Against Corruption.
Mr. Urofsky earned both his B.A., with highest
distinction, and J.D. from the University of Virginia, where he was
a member of the Virginia Law Review and was elected to the Order of
the Coif. Following law school, he clerked for the Hon. James M.
Sprouse of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth
Circuit. Prior to joining the Justice Department, Mr. Urofsky served
in the New York office of Shearman & Sterling, LLP, where he
handled bankruptcy and international banking matters.
|
