Andrew S. Boutros, the Regional Chair of the U.S. White Collar practice, is resident in the firm’s Chicago and Washington, D.C. offices. He is a former federal prosecutor in the Financial Crimes and Special Prosecutions Section of the Chicago U.S. Attorney’s Office. Mr. Boutros now represents companies large and small, public and private, victims and targets as well as their boards, audit committees, officers, directors and other individuals in government enforcement matters (DOJ, USAO, FBI, SEC and other agencies) and internal investigations. His practice also includes trials, false claims litigation, crisis management response, strategic counseling and compliance-related work. In this regard, Mr. Boutros served as Legal Counsel to the Independent Compliance Monitor for a series of pharmacy entities, pursuant to a U.S. Department of Labor administrative agreement. Also, twice Mr. Boutros was hired to serve as a legal expert on the FCPA. In the first engagement, he was retained as an FCPA expert to render a formal legal opinion in a transnational post-acquisition dispute. Most recently, he was hired by one of the world’s largest public companies to serve as a testifying legal expert on the FCPA in criminal proceedings in the Middle East. Mr. Boutros has been a member of the American Law Institute since 2015 and today serves on ALI’s Regional Advisory Group for Region 7 (Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin). Most recently, he was inducted into the International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators, which has a membership that stands at only 79 worldwide from 31 jurisdictions, with just 18 Fellows in the United States. He has been teaching law at the University of Chicago Law School since 2011.