Nicole is an associate in the Global Regulatory Enforcement Group and focuses her practice on white collar government and internal investigations, regulatory enforcement issues, and related litigation. Nicole represents clients in a variety of governmental investigation matters in connection with DOJ, SEC, FTC, various U.S. attorneys’ offices, States’ Attorney General offices, and Congressional investigations.
Nicole has defended clients facing allegations of various white-collar offenses, including securities and commodities fraud, health care fraud, money laundering, wire and mail fraud, antitrust violations, and Foreign Corrupt Practice Act cases. Nicole also has substantial experience in civil antitrust matters, including defending clients in large multi-district litigations and class action matters alleging price fixing and market/customer allocation, and routinely provides clients with guidance on pre- and post-merger competition issues, including preparing Hart-Scott-Rodino filings and conducting substantive antitrust reviews in the merger context.