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Brittain Shaw

Brittain is a partner and chair of the firm's White Collar Defense & Investigations group. Her practice focuses on representing clients in all types of government enforcement investigations, including matters involving complex financial fraud, securities fraud, market manipulation, public corruption and cross-border crimes. With extensive experience as a prosecutor at the United States Department of Justice's Fraud Section, Brittain has led numerous high-profile investigations into various sophisticated fraud schemes. Her work encompasses matters involving accounting fraud, insider trading, commodities fraud, investment fraud, healthcare fraud, mail and wire fraud, tax fraud and money laundering, among others. Brittain has managed all aspects of large-scale criminal investigations, often in parallel with civil investigations by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission or the Treasury Department. Her deep experience includes working closely with agents and officials from multiple U.S. law enforcement agencies and conducting cross-border investigations requiring frequent contacts with foreign criminal and civil regulators such as the United Kingdom's Serious Fraud Office and Financial Conduct Authority, the Netherlands Public Prosecution Service, the Ontario Securities Commission and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. · Thompson Hine LLP

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About

Brittain Shaw is a partner at Thompson Hine LLP and chair of the firm's White Collar Defense & Investigations group. A former prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice Fraud Section, she handles complex government enforcement investigations involving financial fraud, securities fraud, public corruption, cross-border crimes, and other sophisticated fraud schemes.

Practice areas

White Collar DefenseInvestigationsGovernment EnforcementSecurities FraudFinancial FraudPublic CorruptionMoney Laundering

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Expertise

Government Enforcement InvestigationsCross-Border InvestigationsComplex Financial FraudSecurities Fraud LitigationPublic Corruption

Education

  • J.D., Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
  • B.A., Williams College