Peter P Tomczak

Peter P. Tomczak (peter.tomczak@bakermckenzie.com) is a Partner in the Chicago office of Baker & McKenzie LLP. He serves as the firm's Co-Chair, Global Investigations, Compliance and Ethics. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Firm's Global Dispute Resolution practice, and also serves on the Firm's Global Professional Responsibility and Practice Committee. He previously served as Chair of the Firm's North America Litigation and Government Enforcement Practice Group, and on the...See more

Peter P. Tomczak (peter.tomczak@bakermckenzie.com) is a Partner in the Chicago office of Baker & McKenzie LLP. He serves as the firm's Co-Chair, Global Investigations, Compliance and Ethics. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Firm's Global Dispute Resolution practice, and also serves on the Firm's Global Professional Responsibility and Practice Committee. He previously served as Chair of the Firm's North America Litigation and Government Enforcement Practice Group, and on the Steering Committee of the Firm's Global Industrials, Manufacturing and Transportation Industry Practice Group. Mr. Tomczak has conducted sensitive internal investigations, in particular those arising under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, for multinational corporations in more than thirty countries. He regularly counsels clients and their boards of directors on corporate compliance, ESG and corporate governance matters. In addition, he has advised clients on anticorruption issues in all phases of merger and acquisition transactions, and has provided anticorruption training to boards of directors and senior executives. Mr. Tomczak also has successfully represented clients in litigating complex business disputes, primarily those among corporate stakeholders and involving alleged breaches of fiduciary duties. He has significant experience with claims for emergency injunctive relief and other extraordinary equitable remedies. He has represented multinational companies and executives involved in sensitive compliance matters in more than thirty countries, including among others Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Turks & Caicos, Türkiye, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Mr. Tomczak has particular experience in representing and counseling pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, and software and other information technology companies, in regard to anticorruption compliance and bribery investigations. He has advised clients in other industries as well, including among others the manufacturing, industrial, chemical, nuclear medicine, aviation, insurance, and oil and gas industries. Mr. Tomczak regularly publishes and presents on anticorruption, compliance, and corporate governance issues. Among others, in 2010, he co-authored with Robert W. Tarun 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 (2010). He also has authored among other publications: Chapters 4 (Directors' Duties Regarding Sustainability and ESG) & 17 (Litigation and Risk Management) in Esg In The Boardroom: A Guidebook For Directors (ABA Book Publishing 2022); Practical Guidance for Directors Overseeing Corporate Investigations, NACD Board Leaders' Blog (2018, with Richard Dean); and multiple papers addressing FCPA issues in the transactional context that were presented at the American Bar Association's National Institutes on White Collar Crime. Mr. Tomczak previously served as Co-Vice Chair of the Task Force of the ABA Section of Business Law Corporate Governance Committee on Delineation of Governance Roles and Responsibilities, which published its Report in 65 Bus. Law. 107 (2009). He was named to National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Directorship 100--Governance Professionals and Institutions (2018-2022), and received the Economics Outstanding Young Alumni Award from the University of Illinois at Urbana... See less