Success Stories
B&D provided counsel to the DOJ-appointed Independent Corporate Compliance Monitor and Auditor in Volkswagen’s criminal plea agreement stemming from the company’s scheme to sell diesel vehicles containing software designed to cheat on U.S. emissions tests. B&D’s former Chairman served as Deputy Monitor - Emissions & Environmental in this high-profile, large-scale international assignment. B&D attorneys helped assess whether Volkswagen’s compliance and ethics programs were reasonably designed and implemented to prevent and detect violations of anti-fraud and environmental law, including Clean Air Act Title II mobile source emission compliance. B&D attorneys also oversaw an extensive multi-site, multi-entity, multi-continent audit and made recommendations to assist the company’s environmental compliance and management efforts, including helping to implement a revised environmental management system suitable for worldwide operations.
