Insights

Washington – June 24, 2024: Crowell & Moring has been recommended in eight practice areas in the 17th edition of the Legal 500 United States. In addition, partner Daniel Forman, co-chair of the firm’s Government Contracts Group, has been named to the Legal 500’s “Hall of Fame” for Government Contracts.

Washington – February 27, 2023: Global Investigations Review has named Crowell & Moring’s Investigations and White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement groups to its prestigious GIR 100 list, an annual guide to the world’s leading cross-border investigations practices. Based on extensive research, GIR selects 100 firms from around the world that it deems most able to handle sophisticated cross-border government-led and internal investigations. This is the eighth consecutive year that Crowell & Moring has made the list.

Washington – November 10, 2021: Global Investigations Review has named Crowell & Moring’s Investigations and White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement groups to its prestigious GIR 100 list, an annual guide to the world’s leading cross-border investigations practices. Based on extensive research, GIR selects 100 firms from around the world that it deems most able to handle sophisticated cross-border government-led and internal investigations. This is the seventh consecutive year that Crowell & Moring has made the list.

Washington – November 5, 2019: Crowell & Moring’s White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement Group has been named to the Global Investigation Review’s 2019 “GIR 100” list, which honors the world’s leading firms for corporate investigations. This marks the fifth consecutive year that the firm has been recognized for this honor.

Washington – August 9, 2018: Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce that the firm has been recognized as “highly commended” in the “Sanctions Law Firm of the Year, USA” category by WorldECR, a leading international journal covering export controls and sanctions. The publication’s annual “WorldECR Awards” honors firms for their “outstanding work, vision, best practice, commercial benefit to the company, and contribution to international security, of organizations and individuals working in the fields of export control and sanctions compliance and non-proliferation.”

Washington – April 27, 2018: Crowell & Moring LLP partner Carlton Greene, the former chief counsel for the Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and a member of the firm's International Trade and White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement groups, today testified before the House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit. The hearing concerned FinCEN's customer due diligence rule, also known as the CDD Rule, which covered financial institutions are required to begin implementing on May 11.

Washington – March 27, 2018: Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce that partners Paul Rosen and Carlton Greene have received the Burton Awards’ “2018 Law360 Distinguished Legal Writing Award” for their article, “Ransomware: What Every Corporate Executive Needs to Know.” The article originally appeared in Corporate Counsel. The award honors exceptional legal writing and recognizes 30 articles from entries submitted by the nation's 1,000 largest law firms.

Washington – August 7, 2017: East Asia companiesWee Tiong (S) PTE Ltd. and Wee Tiong VS SDN BD voluntarily dismissed their federal lawsuit against the FBI. The plaintiffs had filed suit on July 31 alleging that the FBI had overstepped its authority by de facto designating them as prohibited parties under the Treasury Department’s authority when the bureau sent a letter out to a number of banks. In response to the dismissal, the FBI has agreed to send a clarifying letter to financial institutions explaining that both Wee Tiong entities are not prohibited parties and that the bureau’s original letter was not a direction to the banks to block or reject Wee Tiong-related transactions. 

Washington, D.C. – February 2, 2017: Crowell & Moring LLP is pleased to announce that its International Trade Group has been recognized as one of Law360’s “Practice Group of the Year” for international trade for the second consecutive year. For this listing, Law360 recognizes firms that achieve “victories in litigation and closed the big deals to make their mark among clients and throughout the legal industry.”

Washington, D.C. — January 5, 2016: Crowell & Moring is pleased to announce the addition of Carlton Greene as partner in both its International Trade and White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement Groups. Greene joins the firm after serving as chief counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). His arrival further bolsters the firm’s capabilities as it expands its ability to counsel clients on compliance with U.S., EU, and other foreign economic sanctions, as well as the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act and other anti-money laundering laws and regulations. Greene joins a robust cross-border sanctions, anti-money laundering, and export controls practice that is ranked a top international trade practice for 2015, and includes fellow sanctions and export controls partners Jeffrey Snyder and Alan Gourley, as well as anti-money laundering and sanctions partner Cari Stinebower.