Dara Jeffries is a Legal Consultant in the Firm's Disputes practice, focusing primarily on White Collar/Investigations and Compliance matters. Since joining the Firm Ms. Jeffries has worked on fraud and corruption investigations in Brazil, Argentina, Panama, Mexico and other Central and Latin American countries as well as in the United States, relating to allegations of misconduct of senior company executives and of violations of the US anti-kickback statute and FCPA compliance. Ms. Jeffries advises on compliance matters, including designing and implementing global anti-bribery and anti-corruption programs and conducting risk-based due diligence.
Fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, and French, Ms. Jeffries conducts interviews and reviews documentation in these languages. This ensures that investigations proceed efficiently and rapidly, with nothing lost in translation.
Before joining White & Case, Ms. Jeffries was a partner in a leading law firm in Portugal, where she practiced for over 15 years, advising international corporations on cross-border contracts and multi million euro investments, as well as regulatory compliance. Ms. Jeffries represented multi-national clients in civil, commercial and intellectual property litigation, including before the European Court of Justice.
