Corporate Investigations
Our Corporate Investigations Practice has substantial experience in a wide range of cases including, corporate governance, internal investigations, government investigations, securities and shareholder litigation, fraud, RICO, and professional negligence litigation, including auditing and accounting malpractice litigation.
We represent corporations, officers, directors, special committees, individuals, institutional investors and others facing complex problems arising from state and federal regulation of securities, including Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Our trial attorneys litigate both individual and class action suits for alleged violations of federal and state securities laws, derivative suits by shareholders, and claims relating to RICO, fraud, minority shareholder oppression, and securities brokers and dealers. Specifically, we have represented auditing and accounting firms, the "Big Four" a well as large and medium sized firms, against allegations of professional liability, fraud, RICO and other claims.
Related Practices
We assist boards of directors and special committees of some of the country's largest companies to conduct thorough internal investigations of alleged financial and accounting fraud or wrongdoing. We advise our clients in understanding the discovered facts and advise them of the potential regulatory and legal ramifications. This includes providing reports to the board of directors, special committee, or investigative bodies, including the SEC, and working with the government to resolve the issue at hand.
Further, Balch professionals actively provide client counseling on issues of risk avoidance and corporate governance. They provide advice regarding the governance of public companies and the rapidly changing responsibilities of their management and boards of directors- fiduciary and regulatory duties, compensation, audit, independence, off-balance sheet transactions, and disclosure issues.