Femi Dekalu-Thomas is an associate in the Washington, D.C. offices of Crowell & Moring where he is part of the White Collar & Regulatory Enforcement Group and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) practice. Femi represents clients in matters involving FCPA investigations, criminal antitrust investigations, conflict-of-interest prosecutions, securities violations, grand jury subpoenas, and pardon and commutation applications. Additionally, Femi is a Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional; he advises clients on a broad array of corporate compliance issues.
Femi has an active pro bono practice and routinely appears before the United States Parole Commission on behalf of individuals facing revocation of their parole or supervised release for alleged criminal or administrative violations.
Femi was a summer associate at Crowell & Moring and a summer law clerk at the Office of Legal Counsel of AOL LLC (formerly America Online, Inc.). At AOL, Femi researched and wrote on copyright issues and contributed to an amicus brief filed before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the Perfect 10 v. Google, Inc. litigation.
Femi received his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2008.
Representative Engagements:
· Acts as FCPA compliance counsel to oil and gas exploration company with interests in West Africa.
· Represents large international corporation in criminal antitrust investigation.
· Represents infrastructure development contractor in FCPA investigation involving transactions in India.
· Represents large U.S. power generating company in licensing compliance investigation.
· Represents E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company in trade secret infringement litigation against Kolon Industries, Inc. (ED Va).
· Represents large telecommunications company in numerous litigations in state and federal courts across the United States.
· Represents senior executive of large mining company in administrative and criminal investigations regarding alleged violations of federal and state laws.
· Represented corporate executive in a criminal FCPA investigation regarding oil and gas prospecting in West Africa conducted by the Fraud Section of the U.S. Department of Justice and achieved a declination of prosecution.
· Represented large mining company in criminal and congressional investigations regarding alleged violations of federal law.
· Represented major cargo company in criminal investigation regarding alleged FCPA violations pertaining to contracts awarded for services performed in Iraq.
· Represented company CFO in SEC investigation and prosecution of allegations of books and records violations.
· Represented former U.S. embassy employee charged with accepting illegal gratuities.
· Successfully represented agricultural marketing company in criminal antitrust investigation by the Department of Justice.
· Represented individual charged with serious felonies in Maryland state court.
· Represented individual charged with various federal narcotics and firearms offenses.
Affiliations
Memberships
Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics
Alerts & Newsletters
· "UK Bribery Act - Ready or Not, Here It Comes," White Collar Alert (June 30, 2011). Contacts: Gerallt Owen, Janet Levine, Thomas A. Hanusik, Alan W. H. Gourley, Kelly T. Currie, Daniel L. Zelenko, Femi Dekalu-Thomas, Simi Kaur Grewal.