Christopher A. "Chris" Myers - Lawyer in Tysons, VA

Christopher A. Myers is chair of Holland Knight'sCompliance Services Team and a member of the firm's White Collar Defense Team.He is a former federal prosecutor and has represented clients in a broad rangeof complex matters affecting heavily-regulated industries, including healthcare life sciences, government contracts, financial institutions, educationalinstitutions, publicly-traded and privately held companies doing business bothdomestically and internationally. He has defended and protected organizations inboth internal and external civil and criminal fraud investigations, design,implementation and assessments of compliance and ethics programs, voluntarydisclosures, and corporate governance matters. For thirty years, he has helpedclients respond to issues involving all of the major enforcement statutes,including the False Claims Act, bribery and anti-kickback acts, the Bank SecrecyAct and Money Laundering Control Act, procurement fraud statutes and manyothers. He is a member of the firm's Financial Recovery Team and helps toprotect clients against compliance and enforcement issues surrounding theTroubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) and the economic stimulus programs. Mr.Myers is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and Certified Complianceand Ethics Professional. He is the editor of the Corporate Compliance AnswerBook, published every year since 2010 by the Practicing Law Institute.

Mr. Myers' experience has included representation of companies andindividuals in responding to civil and criminal investigations conducted bystate and federal enforcement authorities, working with clients to identifyareas of risk and designing and implementing compliance programs to protectagainst those risks. He has also developed materials and conducted employee andmanagement training on compliance issues. Mr. Myers has conducted internalinvestigations to determine potential exposure of clients to enforcement actionsand made recommendations on how to respond to a variety of compliance andenforcement issues, including participation in the government's voluntarydisclosure programs. Mr. Myers has also defended clients against civil andcriminal enforcement actions and claims involving both state and federalauthorities. Other matters with which Mr. Myers has experience include adviceregarding duties and responsibilities of senior officers and boards ofdirectors. He writes frequently on enforcement and compliance issues andconducts seminars for clients and other organizations on these issues.

In addition to his practice, Mr. Myers has been a faculty member at a widevariety of continuing legal education and law school programs relating toenforcement and compliance issues, trial and deposition practice and the use ofexpert witnesses.

From 1979-84, Mr. Myers served as an Assistant United States Attorney for theDistrict of Columbia. Mr. Myers has been in private practice handling both civiland criminal litigation since 1984.