Inside Out: The Blueprint for Navigating Internal Investigations
Recorded On: 10/08/2024
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Attendees and panelists will work together in team to discover best practices and potential pitfalls in a simulated in-house investigation. This session will provide practical tools and a robust framework for approaching challenging situations. Walk away with valuable insights, equipped to navigate and conduct in-house investigations effectively, ensuring a proactive and informed approach to potential workplace issues.
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Andrea Paul
Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary
Zentalis Pharmaceuticals
Andrea Paul is Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at Zentalis Pharmaceuticals. Previously, Andrea served as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of LogicBio Therapeutics, Inc., where she led the company’s legal team and served as a key strategic legal partner in the company’s finance, business development and contractual decision-making matters. Before that, she held positions of increasing responsibility at Akebia Therapeutics, Inc., culminating in the role of Vice President, Legal. While at Akebia, Andrea was a key strategic legal partner in the company’s merger with Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. as well as in the company’s financing and business development transactions. Prior to Akebia, she served as Senior Corporate Counsel at Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. She began her legal career working as an associate at Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. and Sullivan and Cromwell LLP. She received her JD from Harvard Law School, where she served as the Managing Editor of The Harvard Law Review, and her BA in Art History from Columbia University.
Todd Braunstein
General Counsel - International & Global Head of Litigation Investigations
Willis Towers Watson
Todd F. Braunstein is a senior attorney at WTW, an insurance broking and consulting firm with $9 billion in revenues and 45,000 employees. His multi-faceted role at WTW, at the rank of managing director, includes the following responsibilities:
* He is global head of litigation and investigations, overseeing a portfolio of hundreds of matters worldwide that includes class actions, securities litigation, errors and omissions litigation, internal and government investigations, and more.
* He is general counsel of WTW’s International business, managing all legal affairs for a business unit that serves clients in 100+ countries on six continents.
* He oversees the company’s antitrust function.
* He oversees the company’s government relations function.
Todd joined WTW in 2016 in order to create the investigations function that he continues to lead today. He has guided the company through numerous high-stakes regulatory and internal investigations, counseling the C-Suite and the Board of Directors on matters of significance. An experienced leader, he oversees teams consisting of approximately 50 lawyers, accountants, and other professionals.
Before joining WTW, Todd was an award-winning white collar crime prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston. He also served in the White House as Special Assistant to the President of the United States for Domestic Policy, where he shaped national policy on crime, civil litigation reform, immigration, civil rights, certain national security matters, and more. Todd also spent many years representing clients in litigation and white collar crime matters at two D.C.-based law firms, WilmerHale and Williams & Connolly.
Christopher Garcia
Partner
Latham & Watkins LLP
Christopher Garcia defends clients in their highest-stakes regulatory and criminal disputes.
Leveraging his extensive experience as a federal prosecutor, Christopher helps companies, boards of directors, executives, broker-dealers, and investment advisers navigate:
Internal investigations
Securities class actions in state and federal courts across the US
Securities and corporate governance issues
Regulatory compliance
Christopher was previously Chief of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force in the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. In this role, he led all aspects of securities fraud investigations and litigation, including those The New York Times highlighted as underpinning “the government’s widespread crackdown on insider trading on Wall Street.” He has supervised the investigation and prosecution of more than 300 cases relating to corporate fraud, consumer fraud, insider trading, fraudulent investment schemes, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), including matters arising from the 2008 financial crisis.
Christopher is a recognized as a thought leader in the academic and legal community. He served on Law360’s 2020 Legal Ethics Editorial Advisory Board and regularly speaks and writes on securities litigation, enforcement, and white collar topics, including cybersecurity, social media communications and related US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosure issues, and anti-corruption enforcement. He has presented as a featured speaker at events coordinated by Bloomberg/Bloomberg BusinessWeek, the Practicing Law Institute, the New York City Bar Association, the American Bar Association (ABA), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the SEC, and the US Department of Justice. He also has been featured in leading publications, including Bloomberg, Forbes, and Reuters.
Christopher serves as Chair of the New York Regional Committee of the ABA Criminal Justice Section’s White Collar Crime Committee and as Co-Chair of the ABA Business Law Section’s Securities Fraud Sub-Committee. He has also served as a member of the Federal Bar Council’s Membership Committee and on the board of the Legal Aid Society of New York.