Debevoise & Plimpton LLP litigation partner Bruce Yannett has received Global Investigations Review’s Outstanding Career award, which recognizes Mr. Yannett for being an exceptionally respected and admired individual in the investigations community. Mr. Yannett received the award at the 2024 GIR Awards, which “celebrate the people and firms behind the past year’s most dazzling investigations and court cases.”

Mr. Yannett is a member of the White Collar & Regulatory Defense Group, which he chaired for over ten years until November 2023, and also served as Deputy Presiding Partner of the firm from July 2011 until June 2022. His practice focuses on white collar criminal defense, regulatory enforcement and internal investigations. He represents a broad range of companies, financial institutions and their executives in matters involving securities fraud, accounting fraud, foreign bribery, cybersecurity, insider trading and money laundering. He has extensive experience representing corporations and individuals outside the United States in responding to inquiries and investigations.

Debevoise’s award-winning White Collar & Regulatory Defense Group is ranked as one of the world’s top practices by Global Investigations Review and as Band 1 by Chambers on both sides of the Atlantic for its complex representations of clients facing litigation and public policy crises, as well as Band 1 in the U.S. for securities enforcement and anti-corruption. Selected by Chambers USA as the 2024 Criminal Litigation Law Firm of the Year, by Global Investigations Review in 2023 as Most Impressive Litigation Practice of the Year, by Benchmark Litigation as the 2022 White Collar Firm of the Year and by Law360 as a 2021 White Collar Practice Group of the Year, the Group has been involved in some of the most significant investigations, litigations and resolutions in recent memory. The practice offers international and domestic clients a depth of experience and global reach that allows for effective and strategic counsel.