About the author

• Author: Robert W. Tarun
• Pages: 769-770

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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