Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, LAW FIRM NEWS: Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros joins Seyfarth Shaw, (Oct 21, 2015)

Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew S. Boutros has joined Seyfarth Shaw LLP as a litigation partner in the firm’s Chicago and Washington, D.C. offices. He will serve as co-chair of Seyfarth’s White Collar, Internal Investigations, and False Claims Team, according to an October 20 announcement.

Boutros joins the firm from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois, where he served for nearly eight years, successfully investigating and prosecuting some of the nation’s largest and most complex multi-district, international corporate fraud and cybercrimes cases. Prior to his public service, Boutros was instrumental in the launch of a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act practice at a leading international law firm.

A graduate of Virginia Tech (B.S.) and the University of Virginia School of Law (J.D.), Boutros clerked for the Hon. Eugene E. Siler, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He is a frequent writer and speaker, who teaches an advanced course on corporate criminal prosecutions and investigations at the University of Chicago Law School, and the national co-founder and co-chair of the ABA’s Criminal Justice Section’s Global Anti-Corruption Committee.

Seyfarth Shaw has more than 850 attorneys in offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, New York, Sacramento, San Francisco, Shanghai, Sydney, and Washington, D.C. The firm provides a broad range of legal services in the areas of labor and employment, employee benefits, litigation, corporate, and real estate.

Attorneys: Andrew S. Boutros (Seyfarth Shaw LLP)

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