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Courtney Trombly focuses on white-collar criminal defense including anti-corruption investigations and compliance counseling, False Claims Act investigations and litigation, and cross-border investigations and disputes. As a partner in our Special Matters and Investigations practice, Courtney represents clients worldwide in a variety of high-stakes matters.
As a partner in our Special Matters and Investigations practice, Courtney represents clients worldwide in a variety of high-stakes matters.
Courtney focuses on white-collar criminal defense including issues involving anti-corruption, fraud, False Claims Act, and cross-border investigations and disputes. Her practice also focuses on compliance program evaluation and counseling, including expertise in risk assessment, root cause analysis, and enhancement of compliance programs based on “lessons learned” through investigations and compliance monitoring. Courtney also has deep expertise and experience with independent compliance monitorships and oversight, having served on both sides of such efforts.
Prior to joining our firm, Courtney served for more than three years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Middle District of Tennessee, where she was part of the Criminal Division's White Collar and Corporate Fraud Unit. In that role, she was lead counsel on dozens of investigations into white-collar crime, including public corruption, money laundering and securities, bank, ERISA, mail, wire, healthcare and bankruptcy frauds, and also prosecuted counterfeiting, computer, narcotics, child exploitation and environmental crimes. On several occasions, she acted as lead counsel on briefs and oral arguments before the Courts of Appeals for the Second and Sixth Circuits.
Before that, Courtney was a Captain in the United States Marine Corps. As a defense counsel at Camp Lejeune, she represented hundreds of Marines and sailors in criminal courts-martial and administrative proceedings. She also served as lead counsel in bench and jury trials, and obtained numerous outright acquittals for her clients. For her service, she was awarded the 2005 USMC Defense Counsel of the Year Award, Eastern Region, and also received the Navy Achievement Medal.
J.D., Boston College, cum laude
B.A., University of Pennsylvania, cum laude
District of Columbia
Massachusetts
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
June 23, 2024
UPS to Sell Coyote Logistics to RXO, Inc.
October 27, 2023
King & Spalding Advises Rotomaster on its Sale to Cloyes
September 29, 2023
Courtney Trombly, Alec Koch, Kathleen Sacks and Lauren Konczos counsel Albemarle Corporation on its settlement with the DOJ and SEC
Serving as counsel to the monitor, Frances McLeod of Forensic Risk Alliance ("FRA"), and works arm-in-arm with FRA to lead the combined DOJ monitorship team for Balfour Beatty Communities ("BBC"). BBC pled guilty to major fraud against the United States in December 2021, and DOJ imposed an independent compliance monitor as part of that plea agreement. The monitorship team focuses on evaluating and testing the BBC compliance program and fraud controls in key categories such as government contracts, self-dealing, corruption, conflicts of interest, and government disclosure and reporting requirements.
Represented Albemarle Corporation, an international chemical company, in connection with government investigations, an internal investigation, and extensive compliance counseling involving multiple jurisdictions in Southeast Asia, China, the Middle East, South American, and Africa. The company reached settlements with the DOJ and SEC in 2023, and the DPP declined prosecution. Citing Albemarle's extraordinary efforts to timely and effectively remediate its compliance program and internal controls, the DOJ did not impose a monitorship. Since the resolution, DOJ Fraud Section officials have repeatedly and publicly cited Albemarle's compliance design and implementation efforts and responses to the misconduct as exemplary.
Representing U.S.-based multinational medical device company in investigation of potential anti-corruption and other legal and policy violations in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. A key part of the engagement includes compliance remediation, including conducting root cause analyses and assessing the effectiveness of the global anti-corruption compliance program.
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January 24, 2024
General Counsel’s Decision Tree for Internal Investigations for the Energy Industry
December 12, 2023
General Counsel’s Decision Tree for Internal Investigations for the Life Sciences Industry
September 21, 2023
General Counsel’s Decision Tree for Internal Investigations
June 23, 2024
UPS to Sell Coyote Logistics to RXO, Inc.
October 27, 2023
King & Spalding Advises Rotomaster on its Sale to Cloyes
September 29, 2023
Courtney Trombly, Alec Koch, Kathleen Sacks and Lauren Konczos counsel Albemarle Corporation on its settlement with the DOJ and SEC
Serving as counsel to the monitor, Frances McLeod of Forensic Risk Alliance ("FRA"), and works arm-in-arm with FRA to lead the combined DOJ monitorship team for Balfour Beatty Communities ("BBC"). BBC pled guilty to major fraud against the United States in December 2021, and DOJ imposed an independent compliance monitor as part of that plea agreement. The monitorship team focuses on evaluating and testing the BBC compliance program and fraud controls in key categories such as government contracts, self-dealing, corruption, conflicts of interest, and government disclosure and reporting requirements.
Represented Albemarle Corporation, an international chemical company, in connection with government investigations, an internal investigation, and extensive compliance counseling involving multiple jurisdictions in Southeast Asia, China, the Middle East, South American, and Africa. The company reached settlements with the DOJ and SEC in 2023, and the DPP declined prosecution. Citing Albemarle's extraordinary efforts to timely and effectively remediate its compliance program and internal controls, the DOJ did not impose a monitorship. Since the resolution, DOJ Fraud Section officials have repeatedly and publicly cited Albemarle's compliance design and implementation efforts and responses to the misconduct as exemplary.
Representing U.S.-based multinational medical device company in investigation of potential anti-corruption and other legal and policy violations in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. A key part of the engagement includes compliance remediation, including conducting root cause analyses and assessing the effectiveness of the global anti-corruption compliance program.
See more
January 24, 2024
General Counsel’s Decision Tree for Internal Investigations for the Energy Industry
December 12, 2023
General Counsel’s Decision Tree for Internal Investigations for the Life Sciences Industry
September 21, 2023
General Counsel’s Decision Tree for Internal Investigations
June 23, 2024
UPS to Sell Coyote Logistics to RXO, Inc.
October 27, 2023
King & Spalding Advises Rotomaster on its Sale to Cloyes
September 29, 2023
Courtney Trombly, Alec Koch, Kathleen Sacks and Lauren Konczos counsel Albemarle Corporation on its settlement with the DOJ and SEC
J.D., Boston College, cum laude
B.A., University of Pennsylvania, cum laude
District of Columbia
Massachusetts
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee