Partner
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Erin Brown Jones advises clients on enforcement, investigations, proactive compliance, and transactional, matters across a range of regulatory regimes, with a focus on DOJ and SEC enforcement, anti-corruption compliance, cross-border transactional work, and workplace misconduct and anti-discrimination matters. She serves as Co-Deputy Office Managing Partner of the Washington, D.C. office.
Erin represents clients in both domestic and cross-border investigations and has experience negotiating with government agencies, navigating negotiated settlements and related reporting requirements, engaging with cross-border teams, local counsel, forensic accountants and experts, and interfacing with external auditors, Boards, and other stakeholders. Erin has investigative experience with the DOJ, SEC, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and other regulatory agencies, as well as working with clients facing Congressional investigations.
Erin's experience includes investigations and proactive compliance advising around the world, including in-country field work and virtual work in dozens of countries across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. Complementing her government-facing work, Erin conducts internal investigations for clients across a range of compliance areas, including highly sensitive allegations of harassment, discrimination, hostile workplace, and retaliation; potential violations of company policies; and concerns regarding fraud, theft, and insider trading.
In addition to her investigations practice, Erin also works closely with clients across industries – including the manufacturing, technology, life sciences, aerospace, healthcare, and oil and gas industries – to review and enhance their internal compliance programs to align with US government expectations and industry leading practices, including drafting policies and procedures, conducting risk assessments, delivering proactive and insightful training, and advising companies with respect to innovative compliance best practices. Erin is a thought leader in the ethics and compliance space, and her expertise ranges from anti-corruption/FCPA to anti-discrimination and civil rights to supply chain risk management (including human rights compliance) to SEC recordkeeping requirements (and beyond).
Erin also regularly advises clients in connection with cross-border M&A, financing, and capital markets transactions, including pre- acquisition due diligence and counseling; post-acquisition diligence, risk assessments, and auditing; and integration support.
Prior to her experience at Latham, Erin held summer fellowships with the DOJ's National Security Division and the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Office of Force Transformation, worked for a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives and also served in the AmeriCorps program.
Erin previously was a member of Latham’s Recruiting Committee and Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Review Board.
Erin’s recent investigations experience includes:
Erin’s transactional and compliance work includes:
Some of Erin’s recent speaking engagements include:
D.C. office recognized for outstanding overall performance and receiving honors in nine award categories, the most of any law firm.
Firm named a finalist for Most Impressive Investigations Practice of the Year, and partner Manny Abascal named a finalist for Investigations Professional of the Year.
White Collar Defense & Investigations partner Erin Brown Jones of Latham & Watkins LLP has worked on headline-making matters and built long-lasting compliance relationships with major corporate clients, earning her a spot among the compliance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 Rising Stars.