Carolyn F. McNiven and Sarah Marquis of DLA Piper’s
About the Authors
Carolyn McNiven is a partner in law firm DLA Piper’s white collar crime practice in San Francisco. She is a former federal prosecutor and handles white collar criminal defense and related administrative, regulatory and compliance matters for individuals and companies, and has particular expertise in the areas of health care, food and drug, and FCPA compliance counseling, risk assessment and litigation.
Sarah Marquis is an associate in DLA Piper’s corporate crime and compliance division in London. She is an experienced criminal defense lawyer specializing in white collar crime, regulatory and complex international fraud investigations. Sarah advises on fraud, corruption, cartels and money laundering issues. She has a background in defending prosecutions and investigations undertaken by the broad spectrum of U.K. regulators, including the Serious Fraud Office, HM Revenue & Customs, the Financial Services Authority and the Office of Fair Trading. She also has a detailed understanding of the nature of prosecutions and investigations gained in her previous role as a case controller at the Serious Fraud Office, where she was responsible for leading teams through the most serious and complex fraud investigations and prosecutions.
Carolyn McNiven – Partner at DLA Piper
Carolyn McNivenis a partner in law firm DLA Piper’s white collar crime practice in San Francisco. She is a former federal prosecutor and handles white collar criminal defense and related administrative, regulatory and compliance matters for individuals and companies, and has particular expertise in the areas of health care, food and drug, and FCPA compliance counseling, risk assessment and litigation.
She has experience handling fraud, anti-trust, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, public corruption, tax, Dodd-Frank whistleblower investigations and securities matters, and providing compliance counseling to public and private entities. For healthcare sector clients, she provides anti-kickback and Stark Act advice, risk assessments, False Claims Act defense and loss computations, fraud and FCA due diligence, qui tam defense, and defense of misbranding and other food and drug offenses. She also has extensive experience in provider-side healthcare fraud enforcement and serves as DLA Piper’s point person on food safety issues.
Carolyn has published the follow articles on Corporate Compliance Insights:
- U.S. and U.K. Anti-Corruption Enforcement Moving Forward – Part 1
- U.S. and U.K. Anti-Corruption Enforcement Moving Forward – Part 2
