Thomas Fox has practiced law in Houston for 25 years. He is now assisting companies with FCPA compliance, Risk Management and international transactions. He was most recently the General Counsel at Drilling Controls, Inc., a worldwide oilfield manufacturing and service company. He was previously Division Counsel with Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. where he supported Halliburton’s software division and its downhole division, which included the logging, directional drilling and drill bit business units.
Tom attended undergraduate school at the University of Texas, graduate school at Michigan State University and law school at the University of Michigan.
Tom writes and speaks nationally and internationally on a wide variety of topics, ranging from FCPA compliance, indemnities and other forms of risk management for a worldwide energy practice, tax issues faced by multi-national US companies, insurance coverage issues and protection of trade secrets.
Thomas,
My name is Greg Bates. I am an attorney at Squire Sanders and one of the co-authors of the piece that you discussed in a February 2, 2010 post called “SO YOU WANT TO BUY A BUSINESS: THE ROLE OF THE FCPA IN INTERNATIONAL ACQUISITIONS”. My co-authors, Rebekah Poston and David Saltzman, and I are flattered that a professional of your experience considered our article worthy of further discussion.
The Squire Sanders Anticorruption Compliance & Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Practice Group is comprised of lawyers who practice in our offices in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and the United States, supporting our firm’s global footprint of 32 offices in 15 countries. The Squire Sanders team has experience in counseling clients in a variety of compliance-related contexts, including preparing compliance programs, conducting internal investigations, and representing clients before enforcement authorities.
Thank you, again, for taking the time to review and highlight our article. Please keep an eye out for additional Squire Sanders publications.
Best regards,
Greg
Comment by Greg Bates — February 9, 2010 @ 4:10 pm |