Anne Elkins Murray
Anne is a partner in Winston’s White Collar & Government Investigations practice. She brings more than two decades of experience helping clients navigate high-stakes white collar matters involving fraud and corruption. She guides companies, boards, and individuals through complex enforcement matters and internal investigations. Clients also trust Anne to help them proactively address enforcement and compliance risks by enhancing their corporate compliance programs and internal controls.
Key Matters
Some of the experience represented below may have been handled at a previous firm.
Investigations
- Represented a special committee of the board in an investigation into embezzlement by a company’s senior executives
- Conducted an internal investigation into allegations of earnings management by senior leaders of a publicly traded company
- Defended a multinational corporation in a five-year corruption and bribery investigation by the DOJ and SEC that spanned South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, and obtained government declination letters
- Conducted an internal investigation into potential accounting fraud issues at a multinational corporation on behalf of its board of directors
- Conducted an internal investigation into ethics issues and product substitution at manufacturing plant
- Conducted an internal investigation into fraud and corruption issues by a third-party distributor to a multinational corporation
- Represented several individuals in industry-wide FCPA investigations related to the oil services and pharmaceutical sectors
- Conducted an internal investigation into a healthcare company’s operations in China
- Conducted an internal investigation into corruption allegations related to a U.S. public official
Monitorships
- Represented a multinational company throughout a three-year DOJ- and SEC-imposed FCPA monitorship
- Served on DOJ and SEC-appointed FCPA monitor team
Compliance program development, risk assessments, & M&A diligence
- Developed an anticorruption compliance program for a life sciences company
- Performed a global anticorruption risk assessment for a hospitality and tourism corporation with worldwide operations
- Developed criteria and conducted a risk assessment for an oil exploration company in the Middle East
- Conducted global risk assessment for financial services organization
- Conducted assessment and tested compliance program for manufacturing company