Thomas M. DiBiagio, partner, Baker Botts LLP, to guest lecture with focus on experience with doing business business globally.
Thomas M. DiBiagio, partner, Baker Botts LLP, focuses his legal practice on the areas of enforcements and investigations, litigation, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), UK Bribery Act, anti-corruption enforcement and compliance, government antitrust, and cartel and criminal antitrust investigations. DiBiagio will present an overview of his recent experience with corporate fraud, antitrust, and corruption cases.
In his lecture on Friday, April 15, he will focus on what he has learned about doing business globally and how business professionals can manage multiple, substantial risks associated with doing business around the world. The presentation will be followed by a Q &A session and is appropriate for all business and non-business majors who will be tasked with operating in a global environment where local norms and customs often conflict with personal and corporate codes of conduct. The lecture will take place in LaRose Digital Theatre from 10:50 a.m. to 12 p.m.
About the speaker:
Thomas (Tom) DiBiagio is a seasoned civil and criminal trial lawyer and litigator with over 30 years of experience before federal and state courts, covering a wide range of areas including commercial litigation, environmental litigation and corporate criminal defense. In 2001, DiBiagio was appointed United States Attorney for the District of Maryland by President George W. Bush, where he spearheaded efforts against violent drug gangs, public corruption and corporate fraud. Under his leadership, the United States Attorney’s Office prosecuted significant public corruption, corporate fraud and major violent crime and drug trafficking cases. From 1991 to 1999, DiBiagio served as an Assistant United States Attorney and tried numerous cases in the area of financial frauds, money laundering, drug trafficking and violent crime. He has published numerous articles on Federal Criminal Law and has been an instructor in Constitutional Law at the United States Naval Academy.