Lauren Valiente is a securities, auditor liability, and white-collar government enforcement defense attorney with Foley & Lardner LLP. Her practice focuses on representing public companies and their officers and directors, audit firms and their partners, and private entities and individuals in investigations and proceedings involving the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Department of Justice (DOJ), Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and other government and non-government agencies. As a fluent Spanish-speaking attorney, her enforcement experience includes representing clients in connection with government investigations throughout Latin America involving alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). She serves as a member of the Foley’s Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) Team.
In addition to representing individual and corporate clients before government regulators, she also represents clients in a variety of complex litigation matters, including False Claims Act (FCA) litigation, securities fraud class actions, and shareholder derivative actions. She has extensive experience leading large-scale internal investigations into allegations of corporate misconduct, including international investigations throughout Latin America, China and India. She also regularly advises companies and their committees and directors, on a wide range of corporate governance issues and assists clients in building and enhancing their corporate compliance programs.
