About the author

AuthorRobert W. Tarun
Pages769-770
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 more than
45 foreign countries. He regularly counsels public companies on Foreign Corrupt
Practices Act and corporate governance matters. He has conducted anti-bribery
training for multinational clients on five continents. Mr. Tarun represents and
defends U.S. and non–U.S. corporations and executives in federal grand jury inves-
tigations, Securities and Exchange Commission proceedings, and in trials across
the country involving conspiracy, criminal antitrust (price fixing and bid rigging),
export violations, financial fraud, FCPA charges, import violations, mail and wire
fraud, securities fraud (accounting, insider trading, and revenue recognition), and
tax fraud (U.S. and international) matters. He also represents corporations and
executives in commercial litigation matters. He has tried more than 50 federal jury
trials across the country.
Mr. Tarun served as a federal prosecutor for 10 years in Chicago, where
he was 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 1993–2011). In 2010, he authored The
Foreign Corrupt Practices Handbook: A Practical Handbook for Mul-
tinational General Counsel, Transactional Lawyers and White Collar
Criminal Practitioners (ABA 2010). In 2010, he, along with Peter P. Tomczak,
wrote the Introductory Essay for the 25th Anniversary White Collar Crime Sur-
vey of the American Criminal Law Review—A Proposal for a United States Depart-
ment 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 Law-
yers, 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 Codification of Disclosure of Favorable Information under Federal Rules
of Criminal Procedures 11 and 16, 41 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 93 (Winter 2003), and
served as the Regent Liaison for its report Recommended Practices for Companies
and Their Counsel in Conducting Internal Investigations, 46 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 73
(Winter 2009).
Mr. Tarun is a graduate of Stanford University (B.A.), DePaul University
(J.D.), and the University of Chicago (M.B.A.). From 2000 to 2005, he taught
“White Collar Criminal Practice” as a Lecturer-in-Law at the University of Chi-
cago Law School. He has served on the planning committee and has chaired and
has been a regular panelist at the annual American Bar Association National
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