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White Collar

When corporations and individuals face criminal or government enforcement investigations that require tested and sophisticated legal counsel, they turn to the Sills Cummis White Collar Practice Group. The team consists of former high-level government and trial attorneys who have deep experience in defending against federal, state, and regulatory actions and conducting sensitive and complex investigations. Our attorneys work tirelessly to convince authorities not to bring charges. They are also skilled in aggressively representing clients at all stages of a matter, including hearings, trials, sentencings, and appeals.

The Sills Cummis White Collar team has experience in virtually every type of government investigation, including those involving health care fraud, complex financial fraud, securities fraud, tax fraud, money laundering, political corruption, racketeering, cybercrime, the Anti-Kickback Statute, False Claims Act, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The team represents clients facing investigations from a range of regulators, including the U.S. Department of Justice, state attorneys general, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and other federal and state agencies.

The group also represents corporations and boards of directors in high stakes corporate investigations. Our attorneys are skilled at reacting quickly in times of crisis, conducting thorough investigations, and making reliable and credible factual findings. We have a deep expertise in advising clients on how to navigate any potential criminal or civil liability, including how best to interact with government regulators. We also have the knowledge and skills to help clients develop compliance programs to prevent future criminal or regulatory exposure.

Several members of our White Collar Practice Group are very experienced in handling criminal tax matters. They have long been known as attorneys of choice in New Jersey and in the region for clients facing a federal or state criminal tax investigation. Regularly, defense attorneys at other firms representing clients in cases with tax implications have sought out our criminal tax attorneys to bolster their representations with our in-depth tax experience and insight into the Internal Revenue Code and the manner in which the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) handles criminal investigations. We have advised hundreds of individuals and public and private corporations facing tax compliance issues, as well as tax professionals and preparers who find themselves the subject of a criminal tax investigation.

Our team is led by Vikas Khanna, a former Acting United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey. Our team also includes a former New Jersey Attorney General, several former Assistant United States Attorneys, a former Executive Assistant Attorney General, who served as the Chief of Law Enforcement Services for the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice, and a former IRS trial attorney. Our attorneys draw on their extensive investigative and trial experience and collective understanding of law enforcement strategies to effectively and efficiently address clients’ needs and vigorously protect their reputations in responding to criminal, civil, tax, or regulatory investigations or proceedings.

Related Practice: Corporate Investigations and Integrity.

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