We have repeatedly blogged about government investigations.  Moreover, regardless of the election results, government investigations will continue.  Further, these governement investigations take on a life of their own and almost always encompass several different areas.

Today, we wanted to digress somewhat from our usual securities topicS and let you in on what some of our colleagues at Fox Rothschild do when it comes to other enforcement or investigative areas.  One area that has received a great deal of press relates to the work of the United States Customs and Boarder Protection service and Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as the FBI.  These agencies have been hard at work raiding a variety of businesses and entities.

Although such work does not necessarily imply that one would see a great deal of activity relating to the securities industry, securities firms, including investment banks, may find theiir work with high technology, defense companies and other manufacturing interests callled into question.  Moreover, this does not even consider the potential employment aspects to these investigations.  Nonetheless, securities industry firms will, most likely, see some of these issues in the future.

Recently, our partner, Patrick Egan, and other colleagues, gave a wonderful presentatino on these topics.  We are attaching the slide presentation for your review (and please contact Patrick if you have any questions).  Export Material.  We look forward to discussing these matters in the future and strongly urge you to take a look at what our colleges have done in this particular area.