Bill Mateja

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Sheppard Mullin
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Experience: Key Matters: Currently representing Texas' Attorney General in connection with a state criminal securities fraud prosecution.
  Successfully represented Missouri's former governor in connection with a federal investigation regarding unsubstantiated allegations of political patronage
  Successfully represented multiple individuals
  companies in connection with various SEC insider trading, accounting fraud
  other investigations
  Conducted tens of corporate internal investigations involving subjects as varied as vendor kickback schemes, illegal bribes
  gratuities, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
  insider trading by a company's chief executive officer.
  Conducted the internal investigation of a Chief Compliance Officer of a national health care provider who intended to be a whistleblower under the False Claims Act.
  Successfully represented numerous companies
  individuals in connection with federal
  state whistleblower lawsuits
  resulting civil
  criminal investigations conducted by HHS-OIG, the FBI, U.S. Attorney's Offices
  state Medicaid officials.
  Successfully represented numerous individual healthcare providers in indicted criminal cases, federal
  state healthcare fraud investigations,
  matters before state medical boards.
  Made numerous criminal referrals to prosecutors
  regulatory agencies in matters involving trade secret theft, embezzlement, dealing with prohibited countries, money laundering
  other alleged criminality.
  Successfully represented multiple oil
  gas promoters before federal
  state securities regulators to beat back charges that their sponsored joint ventures constituted securities under federal
  state law.
  Successfully represented multiple physician
  dental practice groups in connection with numerous Medicare
  Medicaid fraud investigations.
  Successfully represented multiple healthcare providers
  DME/pharma interests in Anti-Kickback, Stark Act, off-label promotion
  False Claims Act investigations
  cases.
  Successfully represented multiple companies civilly
  criminally in connection with a departing employee's alleged theft of corporate trade secrets.
  Obtained the dismissal of a state securities fraud case against a University of Texas professor
  Obtained a deferred prosecution of $900 million window
  door manufacturer in connection with an ICE worksite enforcement prosecution
  obtained dismissal of restaurant manager in federal criminal case involving allegations of hiring of illegal aliens.
  Successfully represented a major, publicly traded medical provider
  leading home-
  community-based service provider to the mentally ill in a joint federal/state whistleblower lawsuit alleging millions of dollars in damages.
  Counseled numerous companies on compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
  federal export laws.
  Counseled numerous companies on compliance with the Heath Insurance Portability
  Accountability Act (HIPAA).
  Represented a West Texas agribusiness in a major criminal
  civil False Claims Act prosecution
  investigation.
  Represented the former chairman of the board of a publicly traded company before the Delaware Chancery Court in a shareholder derivative action.
  Served as a AAA arbitrator in two arbitrations, one of which was an arbitration involving a hospital
  claims administrator.
  Successfully represented a $900 million manufacturing concern in connection with parallel criminal
  SEC investigations involving allegations of accounting fraud
  self-dealing.
  Represented significant business concerns in connection with insurance coverage disputes
  Represented Innovation First, Inc., in suing the Dominion Multiple Employer Welfare Benefit Trust
  American General Life Insurance Company, among others, in connection with Innovation First's participation in the Trust.
  Counseled a debt consolidation business on compliance matters, including compliance with various FTC regulations.
  Represented a money transmitting business in a federal unlicensed money transmitting business prosecution.
  Represented an individual before DOJ's Office of Pardon Attorney
  in connection with his application for a federal pardon.
  Successfully represented multiple individuals in connection with mortgage fraud investigations
  prosecutions.
  Counseled significant life insurance company on anti-money laundering
  OFAC compliance.