About The Author

• Author: Robert W. Tarun
• Profession: Former Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago
• Pages: 1177-1178

About the Author

Robert W. Tarun (robert.tarun@bakermckenzie.com) is a partner at Baker &

McKenzie, LLP, in its San Francisco and Chicago offices. He has handled more

than 100 sensitive internal investigations in the United States and in over 50 for-

eign countries. He regularly counsels public companies on Foreign Corrupt Prac-

tices Act, corporate governance, criminal antitrust, and other white-collar criminal

matters. He has conducted anti-bribery training for multinational corporations on

five continents. Mr. Tarun represents and defends U.S. and non-U.S. corporations

and executives in federal grand jury investigations, in Securities and Exchange

Commission proceedings, and in trials across the country involving conspiracy,

criminal antitrust (price fixing, bid rigging, criminal environmental matters, and

market allocation), export violations, financial fraud, FCPA charges, health care

fraud, import violations, mail and wire fraud, securities fraud (accounting, insider

trading, and revenue recognition), and tax fraud (U.S. and offshore) matters. He

also represents corporations and executives in commercial litigation matters. He

has tried over 50 federal jury trials across the country.

Mr. Tarun has represented multinational companies, boards of directors, audit

committees and special committees, and executives in sensitive matters and foreign

operations in over 50 jurisdictions, including Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Bel-

gium, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech

Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indo-

nesia, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Lichtenstein, Macau,

Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Oman, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal,

Romania, Russia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland,

Syria, Taiwan, Turkey, Turks & Caicos, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom,

and Uruguay.

Mr. Tarun served as a federal prosecutor for 10 years in Chicago, where he

was Deputy Chief of the Criminal Receiving and Appellate Division from 1979

to 1982 and the Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney from 1982 to 1985. In 1993

he co-authored and has since annually updated the treatise Corporate Inter-

nal Investigations (Law Journal Press, 1993–2015). In 2010 he authored The

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Handbook: A Practical Guide for Multina-

tional General Counsel, Transactional Lawyers and White Collar Criminal

Practitioners, 4th edition (ABA, 2015). In 2010, he, along with Peter P. Tomc-

zak, wrote the introductory essay for the 25th Anniversary White Collar Crime

Survey—A Proposal for a United States Department of Justice Foreign Corrupt Practices

Act Leniency Policy, 47 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 153 (Spring 2010).

In 1992 Mr. Tarun was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers,

chaired its Federal Criminal Procedure Committee from 1999 to 2002, and served

on its Board of Regents from 2003 to 2008. He drafted its Report on the Proposed

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