Andrew Seenath
Attorney in San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Andrew Seenath
Attorney in San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Andrew has extensive experience as Global Compliance and Ethics Counsel of a multinational renewable energy company, an attorney in Am Law 100 international law firms representing global Fortune 500 corporations, a prosecutor in the fourth largest prosecutors' office in the United States and a legal consultant for multinational companies.
This experience enabled Andrew to achieve a high degree of competence in litigating complex matters, conducting high-stakes criminal and civil trials, and providing crisis, risk and reputation management advice to boards of directors and senior executives of multinational corporations.
Andrew's focus over the past 20 years has been conducting internal investigations, counseling corporate clients, responding to government inquiries and enforcement actions, and implementing compliance and ethics programs designed to address multiple high-risk areas:
• anti-corruption: FCPA, FEPA, UKBA, CCA (Brazil), Sapin II (France), PRECCA (S. Africa), MACCA (Malaysia)
• due diligence & oversight: third parties, M&A targets, JV partners
• U.S. government contracts: False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Act, Procurement Integrity Act
• export controls: Export Admin. Regs. - BIS; International Traffic in Arms Regs. - DDTC
• trade sanctions & embargoes: Office of Foreign Assets Control
• unsanctioned foreign boycotts: Export Administration Act & EAR
• national security: CFIUS reviews & national security agreements
• antitrust & unfair competition: FTC Act, Clayton Act, Sherman Act
• health care fraud: False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Statute, FDCA, PPSA, FDA recalls
• cybersecurity: DFARS, SEC disclosures
• whistleblower anti-retaliation: Dodd-Frank Act, Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• data privacy: EU GDPR, EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, CCPA
• money laundering: KYC, CDD
• labor & employment: EEOC, OSHA
• human rights: UFLPA, UK MSA, CTSCA
• economic espionage & theft of trade secrets
• securities fraud & insider trading
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Additionally, Andrew has deep experience designing and implementing robust, multifaceted compliance and ethics programs for multinational corporations focusing on proactive and remedial measures to promote a culture of integrity and compliance and mitigate the risk of ethical breaches and compliance violations.