Patrick J. Egan

Partner

Patrick is co-chair of the firm's White Collar Compliance & Defense Practice. He has more than 20 years of experience representing businesses, executives, professionals, and other individuals in federal white-collar criminal defense matters and parallel civil actions. His areas of concentration include:

• health care
• securities
• tax and accounting oversight
• public corruption
• Foreign Corrupt Practice Act
• Export Act
• customs

Patrick’s experience includes defending:

• a generic drug manufacturer in an SEC investigation
• a principal of a major accounting firm in a PCAOB investigation
• the CFO of a publicly traded company in an options back-dating and earnings management investigation
• an Internet pharmacy in a federal Grand Jury investigation
• a surgical instrument manufacturing executive in an FDA and Customs fraud indictment
• a securities broker in a fraud indictment
• a metals company director in a customs fraud and Bank Secrecy Act indictment
• a refrigerant company executive in an excise tax evasion indictment
• a chemical manufacturing corporation in a Country of Origin Marking violation Grand Jury investigation
• an exporter in an Office of Foreign Assets Control violation Grand Jury investigation
• a securities broker in a re-insurance fraud indictment
• the Financial Secretary of the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police in a racketeering indictment

In commercial litigation and regulatory defense, Patrick has represented:

• an air conditioning supply company in a civil RICO, tortuous interference, and unfair competition case
• a titanium importer in a customs civil penalty proceeding in the U.S. Court of International Trade
• a food processing company in a civil FDA violation proceeding
• a mining equipment manufacturer in an OFAC penalty proceeding

Patrick's experience also includes:

• Performing an internal investigation of alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act at an Indian subsidiary of a publicly traded corporation
• Designing FCPA compliance programs for an international food distribution company and publicly traded technical services corporation, among others.

Beyond Fox Rothschild

Patrick is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is an Adjunct Professor of Integrated Trial Advocacy at Temple University Beasley School of Law, and a faculty member for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy-Mid-Atlantic Regional Trial Program and the National Institute of Trial Advocacy-Advanced Deposition Skills.

Patrick has commented on criminal cases on national television and is frequently quoted in publications such as Compliance Week, Wall Street Journal, National Law Journal and Healthcare Risk Management.

Patrick is Chair of the Criminal Law Committee of the Federal Bar Association for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers where he serves on the advisory board for The Champion Magazine.

Client Resources

Fox Rothschild e-Books:

Business in a Global Society: A Guide to Understanding the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
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Primer on Government and Internal Investigations
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Honors and Awards