Author: Peter P. Tomczak

Robert W. Tarun (robertwtarun@gmail.com) is an American trial lawyer, writer and student of 19th and the first half of the 20th century courthouse architecture. He has tried over fifty federal jury trials across the country. He has conducted more than one hundred sensitive internal investigations in the United States and over sixty foreign countries. He has counseled public companies on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, corporate governance, criminal antitrust, and other white collar criminal matters. He has conducted anti-bribery training for multinational corporations on five continents. Mr. Tarun has represented and defended U.S. and foreign corporations and executives in federal grand jury investigations, Securities and Exchange Commission proceedings, commercial litigation and in trials in twenty states. These matters have involved conspiracy, criminal antitrust (price fixing and bid rigging), export violations, financial fraud, FCPA charges, health care fraud, import violations, mail and wire fraud, securities fraud (accounting, insider trading, and revenue recognition), and tax fraud (U.S. and offshore) allegations. He has visited over one hundred American courthouses.   Mr. Tarun has represented multinational companies and executives in sensitive matters in the following foreign jurisdictions: Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Lichtenstein, Macau, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Turks & Caicos, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and Uruguay.   Mr. Tarun served as a federal prosecutor for nearly a decade in Chicago, where he was Deputy Chief of the Criminal Receiving and Appellate Division from 1979 to 1982 and the Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney from 1982 to 1985. In 1993 he co-authored and thereafter updated the treatise Corporate Internal Investigations (Law Journal Press 1993–2017). He also published in London “An American trial lawyer’s view of an Old Bailey trial, ” 143 New Law Journal No. 6609 (July 16, 1993). In 2010, Mr. Tarun first authored The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Handbook: A Practical Guide for Multinational General Counsel, Transactional Lawyers and White-Collar Criminal Practitioners. In 2010, he, along with Peter P. Tomczak, wrote the Introductory Essay for the 25th Anniversary White Collar Crime Survey—A Proposal for a United States Department of Justice Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Leniency Policy, 47 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 153 (Spring 2010). In 2018 Mr. Tomczak joined him as co-author of the Fifth Edition of The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Handbook.   In 1992, Mr. Tarun was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers, chaired its Federal Criminal Procedure Committee from 1999 to 2002, and served on its Board of Regents from 2003 to 2008. He drafted the College’s Report on the Proposed Codification of Disclosure of Favorable Information Under Federal Rules of Criminal Procedures 11 and 16, 41 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 93 (Winter 2003) and served as the Regent Liaison for its report Recommended Practices for Companies and Their Counsel in Conducting Internal Inve