Called Before Congress? How Companies Can Prepare for Congressional Investigations

About this episode

This episode discusses how companies can prepare for congressional investigations with insights from legal experts.

What happens when a company becomes the target of a congressional investigation, and how can ethics, compliance, legal, and government affairs teams prepare before scrutiny arrives? In this episode of The Ethicast, host Bill Coffin speaks with Kimberly Hamm and Carlos Felipe Uriarte, partners at Morrison Foerster and co-chairs of the firm’s Congressional Investigations practice. Drawing on deep experience across Congress, the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and high-stakes corporate investigations, Kim and Carlos explain what organizations should understand about congressional scrutiny, how investigations unfold, and why preparation across internal teams matters. The conversation explores what a congressional investigation really entails, whether companies should expect executive testimony, the emerging issues most likely to attract attention, and how congressional inquiries can intersect with other government investigations or enforcement actions. Kim and Carlos also discuss how ethics and compliance, legal, and government affairs teams can work together before a crisis hits, and whether there is such a thing as “winning” before Congress. Topics…

People in this episode

Host: Bill Coffin

Guests: Kimberly Hamm, Carlos Felipe Uriarte

Topics covered

• congressional investigations
• corporate compliance
• government affairs
• ethics
• legal preparation
• executive testimony

Keywords

• congressional scrutiny
• investigations
• corporate ethics
• compliance teams
• government inquiries
• data privacy
• AI
• supply chain

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Morrison Foerster, Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission

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