About the Author

• Author: Robert W. Tarun
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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, and criminal antitrust matters. He has conducted

anti-bribery training for multinational clients on five continents. Mr. Tarun repre-

sents 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 and

bid rigging), export violations, financial fraud, FCPA charges, import violations,

mail and wire fraud, securities fraud (accounting, insider trading, and revenue rec-

ognition), and tax fraud (U.S. and international) matters. He also represents cor-

porations and executives in commercial litigation matters. He has tried over 50

federal jury trials across the country.

Mr. Tarun has represented multinational companies and executives in sensitive

matters and foreign operations in countries including Algeria, Australia, Bangla-

desh, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech

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

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

Mexico, Nigeria, Oman, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rus-

sia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Syria, Tai-

wan, 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 Internal Investiga-

tions (Law Journal Press 1993–2013). In 2010, he authored The Foreign Corrupt Prac-

tices Handbook: A Practical Handbook for Multinational 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 Survey—A Proposal for a United States Department of Justice Foreign Cor-

rupt 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 Cod-

ification 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

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