Jason Linder

Jason is highly regarded by US and foreign authorities.  He has worked with or against nearly every major US Attorney’s Office, many components of DOJ’s Main Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, other US law enforcement and regulatory agencies, and foreign authorities and multilateral development banks across the globe.  Before joining Mayer Brown, Jason chaired another major firm’s global investigations and white collar criminal defense practice.  From 2007 to 2017, he served as a federal prosecutor, both in the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division—where he led many of the Department’s most cutting-edge cross-border white collar investigations—and as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of Florida, where he tried numerous cases and argued multiple appeals.  Jason served as DOJ’s principal representative to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).  Jason clerked for the Honorable Stanley Marcus of the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit from 2001 to 2002.

Jason is the national co-chair of the American Bar Association’s White Collar Crime Committee, an officer of the International Bar Association’s Business Crimes Committee and serves on the boards of multiple California legal and public service organizations.  He speaks and writes regularly on a range of white collar and compliance issues.  National media, including the Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, regularly turn to Jason for thought leadership.  He is also recognized by numerous legal industry publications, including his selection as one of five lawyers to Global Investigations Review’s “FCPA Practitioner to Watch” list in 2021 and his national and international rankings by Chambers for FCPA.

• Conducting an internal investigation in Saudi Arabia related to alleged corruption, conflict of interest, and other misconduct for one of the world’s largest engineering companies, an issuer on the New York Stock Exchange.
• Defending a former Chief Executive Officer at a publicly traded mining exploration and production company in DOJ and SEC investigation into alleged misconduct in the US and Mexico.
• Defending a real estate company and its owner in a DOJ embezzlement, kickback, and financial fraud investigation, as well as in related civil proceedings.
• Defending a major professional services company in an assessment of its compliance program by French anti-corruption authorities.
• Representing an executive of a major financial institution in an internal fraud-related investigation and related civil litigation.
• Advising a major energy company in a variety of compliance and investigations matters in West Africa, South America, the Middle East and elsewhere.
• Conducting compliance reviews and implementing compliance remediation for multiple large corporations, many publicly traded, across a wide range of industries.
• Representing a major pharmaceutical manufacturer in an FCPA-related civil suit.
• Represented a major insurer in a DOJ criminal antitrust investigation.
• Represented the general counsel of a defense contractor in multiple DOJ investigations involving allegations relating to the FCPA, money laundering, the Foreign Agent Registration Act and fraud.
• Represented a China-based executive of a large California-based publicly traded company in connection with an FCPA investigation by the SEC and DOJ.
• Led an investigation into alleged securities fraud on behalf of a committee of the board of directors of a major California publicly traded company.
• Led an internal investigation for a major horseracing company.
• Conducted an FCPA-related internal investigation in Asia for a large California-based publicly traded technology company.
• Represented an orthopedic surgery practice in an internal and government healthcare fraud investigation, as well as related qui tam and civil suits.
• Represented a major medical device manufacturer in an internal and DOJ investigation of cyberhacking.
• Represented several executives of a Fortune 100 automobile manufacturer in a DOJ and SEC investigation into potential accounting fraud, securities fraud, wire fraud, and books and records violations, as well as the company's related internal investigation.
• Represented an executive of a major medical device manufacturer in a DOJ healthcare fraud investigation.
• Represented an executive of a German auto manufacturer in a DOJ and German law enforcement investigation into potential regulatory fraud.
• Conducted FCPA-related internal investigations in Latin America and the Caribbean for a large California-based publicly traded company.
• Designed and implemented a compliance program for an entertainment studio to minimize risk arising from contemplated new content creation.
• Revised and trained executives on an entertainment studio’s FCPA compliance program.
• Advised a private equity fund regarding FCPA implications of its investments.
• Served as an expert witness on anti-corruption compliance programs for a major medical device company.
• Counseled a major pharmaceutical manufacturer regarding FCPA issues.
• Advised an international health care company on its anti-corruption compliance program.
• Led a major Los Angeles County company’s internal investigation relating to a cyberhack and advised the business on cybersecurity compliance.