Allen Grunes shared his perspective with Bloomberg News regarding the proposed Publicis-Omnicom Merger. Click Below:
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Halliburton Pleads Guilty: New York Times (Interesting Tea Leaves)
Allen Grunes Quoted in Washington Post: “AT&T Bid for Leap Wireless Seen Winning U.S. Regulatory Approval”
Allen Grunes was asked for his views on the proposed merger of AT&T and Leap Wireless International. (Grunes and Maurice Stucke were the authors of an influential antitrust analysis of the attempted AT&T/T-Mobile merger in 2011.) Please click on the linked article below:
AT&T Bid for Leap Wireless Seen Winning U.S. Regulatory Approval
Competition Policy International: US: New antitrust firm GeyerGorey snags DOJ lawyers after office closures
Main Justice: Policy Politics and the Law: Former DOJ Attorneys Aim For New Model With GeyerGorey LLP Law Firm
Antitrust Monitor Blog: Influential Think Tank and Opinion Driver Recommends Harsher Antitrust Fines
The American Antitrust Institute, a Washington D.C. organization, has written a letter to the United States Sentencing Commission recommending that fines for antitrust violations be increased. The recommendation grows out of work done by Professors John Connor and Bob Lande, who have been studying whether the penalties (including fines, jail time, and civil liability) adequately deter would-be price fixers. Their study, which looks at a significant amount of data over many years, suggests that price fixing is under-deterred, and that it therefore can be a rational business decision for firms to illegally fix prices, even in the current era of large fines, big jail sentences and private treble damages cases. They specifically point out that while the Guidelines assume that price fixing raises prices by an average of 10% over what prices would be in a competitive market, there is evidence that this estimate is too low, and should be revised to 20%, if not higher.
http://www.antitrustinstitute.
The Hill: Lobbying World
Click Here: The Hill: Lobbying World (June 25, 2013)
GeyerGorey LLP’s Phillip C. Zane Named to 2013 Edition of Washington D.C. Super Lawyers
GeyerGorey LLP first international law firm to beta test PerfectShield™
GeyerGorey LLP first international law firm to beta test PerfectShield™
WASHINGTON — GeyerGorey LLP today announced that it had been chosen by FormerFeds LLC to be the first international law firm to beta test its revolutionary “PerfectShield™” Compliance system designed and deployed by former American fraud enforcers (a/k/a “FormerFeds”). PerfectShield™ is the newest weapon in our arsenal
to provide a ‘redundant complex risk prevention array’ for clients that is affordable and provides automated and organized support for a company’s compliance operations overseen and administered by our law firm,” said firm partner Robert Zastrow. “Because PerfectShield™ delivers the things we need most right now for our clients, we were happy to help FormerFeds LLC fine tune its compliance system to assist its other law firm clients later in the year. We believe this gives GeyerGorey and its clients an advantage in our constant struggle to implement and maintain a vigilant compliance culture that innovates and reinforces productive corporate behavior moving forward.”
PerfectShield™ provides:
- centralized, whole-of-business risk and compliance visibility and benchmarking
- easy configuration to meet any regulatory environment in any sector
- unique compliance portal for customized assessments and notifications
- red flag generation and tracking system designed to protect privilege
- cost effective, low-risk, pay-as-you-go pricing
“We were looking ‘software as a service’ (SAS) that provided an organizational ‘fire and forget’ system embedding compliance, transparency and corporate governance into one program solution,” stated Hays Gorey. “FormerFedsCompliance™ developed its system across disciplines so that the wall that exists between various specialties within a law firm—for instance, cartel enforcement and FCPA, is rendered obsolete by PerfectShield™; efforts in each area informs the other area and efforts to embed compliance on the “sell” side of operations informs the “buy” side of operations capturing incremental improvements, innovating the program and constantly improving and solidifying the program on an affordable schedule that factors in legal counsel’s expert assessments regarding risk,” said Brad Geyer.
“It allows us to focus on the risk and emerging legal threats while PerfectShield™ gathers the information, red flags threats and channels those threats back to us in real time so that we can immediately follow through in a way that preserves the attorney client privilege. Customized tracking and notification preferences allows inside compliance counsel, inside legal counsel and or management to track , statistically analyze performance and benchmark results moving forward,” said Geyer. All the while, PerfectShield™ documents and records the performance and comprehensiveness of the compliance program for presentations to interested enforcement agencies, standards boards, acquisition candidates, large suppliers or large customers.
GeyerGorey LLP, with offices in Washington, New York, Boston and Philadelphia, provides international and inside-the-beltway experience to individuals and companies that have become — or wish to avoid becoming — the subject of federal law enforcement agency interest.
Teresa C. Zalcman, the first Vietnamese-American United States Department of Justice prosecutor, joins GeyerGorey LLP.
GeyerGorey LLP today announced that Teresa Zalcman (nee Clinton) has become a Senior Advisor to the firm. Ms. Zalcman was the first Vietnamese-American to serve as a prosecutor with the United States Department of Justice. Her affiliation with GeyerGorey LLP complements the firm’s efforts to provide companies with advice on compliance with federal criminal laws and regulations, in detecting wrongdoing by corporate employees and in providing full-scope, white-collar criminal defense where prevention and mitigation measures fail.
Ms. Zalcman immigrated to the United States in 1968. She is a graduate of the University of California at Davis and received her law degree from Howard University before being hired by the Department of Justice under the Attorney General’s Honor’s Program.
Ms. Zalcman has been engaged professionally in recent years as an investment adviser and money manager. She bides her time among three cities, New York, Los Angeles and Nha Trang.
Ms. Zalcman has maintained extensive contacts within Vietnam and travels throughout the country on a regular basis. She will be a great asset to American companies seeking to enter the Vietnamese market, as well as to Vietnamese companies that wish to market their products in the United States.