G. William Currier is a partner in the Corporate Defense and Special Litigation Practice at White & Case. A former SEC Assistant Director, Assistant Chief Litigation Counsel, and Assistant US Attorney, he has extensive trial experience in complex securities enforcement matters, federal criminal investigations and proceedings, and related civil actions. Mr. Currier's practice includes criminal and civil defense of US and non-US issuers, hedge funds, investment advisors, and financial institutions, their Boards of Directors, Audit Committees, officers, directors, and employees in matters involving the US securities laws ('34 Act and '40 Act), Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and Sarbanes-Oxley, money laundering, RICO, accounting and financial fraud, insider trading, and other related white-collar criminal and civil matters. He also advises on design and implementation of corporate compliance programs and remediation, and related corporate governance issues.

Mr. Currier has conducted corporate cross-border internal investigations for US and non-US issuers' operations in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Vietnam, China (mainland) and Hong Kong, Mexico, Columbia, Brazil, France, Germany, Hungary, Montenegro, Austria, Switzerland, Canada, and the US. The business activities of his clients include telecommunications; oil and gas engineering, exploration, production, and refining projects; large engineering and infrastructure construction projects; commodities; finance (hedge funds, private equity, banks, investment advisers); aviation and defense; international industrial and electronics. He has also represented clients in international arbitration proceedings before the London Court of International Arbitration.

Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Currier was Assistant Regional Director and Senior Trial Counsel in the New York Region Office of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (2001- 2005) and Assistant Chief Litigation Counsel in the SEC's Trial Unit at the Head Office in Washington, DC (1999-2001). In these positions, he represented the SEC in federal civil enforcement injunctive actions and administrative proceedings, while conducting and managing a broad range of SEC investigations.

He also served as an Assistant US Attorney in the District of Columbia (1981-1986), where he investigated and indicted serious and complex felonies in both federal and local courts, prosecuted over 40 jury trials to verdict, conducted hundreds of grand jury investigations, focusing on violent repeat offenders and argued criminal appeals in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Mr. Currier's clients include US and non-US issuers listed on US stock exchanges, their Audit Committees, senior management, officers and directors, as well as private financial institutions and their senior officers in federal criminal and SEC-related civil proceedings. A selection of matters involving his US and non-US issuer and financial institution clients includes the following: 

• Multi-national electronics company in SEC and DOJ investigations concerning possible FCPA violations, including improper payments and control and accounting issues related to imports in emerging market countries
• Senior finance official in connection with SEC fraud investigation of major East Coast city’s municipal bond offerings
  Latin American commodities multi-national company in SEC investigation concerning exposure to and losses associated with high risk structured products; conducted internal investigation and represent the BoD before the SEC in ongoing proceedings
• Eastern European telecommunications company in joint DOJ/SEC investigations of potential FCPA and securities violations in operations in Eastern Europe and the Balkans; conducted internal investigation of certain subsidiaries; conducted analysis of anti-corruption compliance program, corporate governance enhancements, modifications of key policies, procedures, and Code of Ethics; represented the Audit Committee before the DOJ and SEC in ongoing proceedings 
• US specialty products company in SEC investigation concerning public disclosures, Reg FD, and related insider-trading matters; conducted internal investigation and represented the BoD before the SEC 
• US commodities company in joint DOJ/SEC investigations of FCPA and securities violations in overseas operations in the Far East; represented the BoD 
• European oil and gas infrastructure and engineering company in joint DOJ/SEC investigation of potential FCPA and securities violations in its foreign operations; conducted internal investigation of certain of those operations; represented the BoD before the DOJ and SEC 
• International US-listed industrial manufacturer, healthcare, water advisory, and services conglomerate in joint DOJ/SEC investigation of potential FCPA and securities violations in its foreign operations in the Far East, South America, Central and Eastern Europe; conducted internal investigations of foreign business operations; represented the company and senior management before the DOJ and SEC 
• Big Four accounting firm in connection with potential independence issues, PCAOB representation, and investigation of foreign operations for possible US securities violations 
• Hedge fund in connection with SEC investigation of disclosures and public statements to investors concerning investments made in third-parties involved in litigation, including bankruptcy 
• Singapore-based investment holding company in connection with certain of its operations in China and ongoing SEC investigation into possible violations of the FCPA 
• US oil and gas conglomerate, analyzing its worldwide anti-corruption compliance program and recommending corporate governance enhancements, modifications of key policies, procedures, and Code of Ethics; presenting to the Executive Committee, General Counsel, and Senior Management 
• Officer of EU multinational conglomerate's business operations in Central Europe, in connection with SEC investigation of the accounting practices and disclosures of a US-listed business partner and software producer 
• Investment advisor and principal in DOJ/SEC investigations of a major "Ponzi" scheme scandal, and related State securities investigations and class actions suits 
• Japanese construction company in DOJ investigation of fraud and antitrust violations in connection with bidding on US contracts for work at US naval operations; conducted internal investigation of its operations in Japan and represented the BoD before the DOJ 
• EU-based joint-venture of a US agriculture conglomerate in a DOJ investigation involving fraud, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice violations in connection with US insured, bulk shipments of animal grains to North Africa and the Middle East; conducted internal investigation of the joint-venture operations; represented the BoD of the joint-venture before the DOJ and in federal court 
• LCIA arbitration proceeding on behalf of the CEO and primary shareholder of a foreign corporate investor in a Central Asian country, in connection with contract disputes over mineral production rights, fraud, and related civil litigation and bankruptcy proceedings in a third country

Mr. Currier also was Law Clerk to the Honorable Frederick H. Weisberg, Superior Court for the District of Columbia. (1980-81)

The Association of the Bar of the City of New York honored Mr. Currier with its Thurgood Marshall Award for pro-bono death penalty representation in connection with a ten-year pro bono defense of Wayne Snell, an Arkansas death row inmate convicted of double murders in the mid-1980's. (1998)

Bars and Courts
New York State Bar, 1994
District of Columbia Bar, 1980
US Court of Appeals for the Second, Eleventh and the District of Columbia Circuits
US District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
US District Court for the District of Columbia

Education
JD, Antioch School of Law, 1979
BA, Wesleyan University, 1969

Professional Associations and Memberships
American Bar Association
Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Languages
English
French

Citizenship
United States