Owen Bonheimer

Associate

• obonheimer@steptoe.com
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Owen Bonheimer is an associate in Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where he is a member of the International Department. His practice focuses on international regulatory compliance under the securities laws, internal investigations, and controversies.

He is involved in representing corporations and executives on anti-corruption and anti-money-laundering investigations, with experience before the SEC, DoJ, Congress, and the World Bank, and on matters involving parallel foreign probes. He also works with companies in a range of industries to conduct compliance risk assessments, develop effective compliance tools and conduct employee training programs.

With the advent of the Dodd-Frank Act, he has helped extractive industry members to fashion strategy and comments on new disclosure regulations proposed by the SEC relating to international operations. Mr. Bonheimer also has experience working with financial industry professionals to analyze the potential impact of these and other new SEC disclosure regulations.

In the worldwide arbitration practice, he has appeared for the claimant in successful investor-state arbitration proceedings before the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).  Prior to joining Steptoe, he served as a law clerk with the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and as an intern for a federal judge in the District of Columbia.

Mr. Bonheimer has published articles and spoken at seminars on anti-corruption laws, asset recovery in corruption cases, anti-money laundering "gatekeeper" duties, international procurement fraud, investor-state arbitration, enforcement of foreign arbitral awards, human rights litigation, and transnational legal practice.

In the pro bono area, he handles consumer protection matters, as well as human rights cases before US and international tribunals.

Mr. Bonheimer is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and is familiar with Latin American civil law jurisdictions through legal experience in Brazil and at the Organization of American States.

Select News & Events

• Corporate Criminal Liability, Bribery & Corruption: Roadmap to Get Rid of Problems Seminar, 2011 AIJA Conference, November 17, 2011
• Whistleblowers and the FCPA – Minimizing Internal Risk, July 27, 2011, (A Steptoe-Sponsored Event)
• Compliance Week Quotes Lucinda Low and Owen Bonheimer on Energy Industry Disclosure Provision in Dodd-Frank Act
• Anti-Money Laundering & Off-Shoring Issues, November 19, 2008, Recent Developments in the World of Anti-Money Laundering
• Steptoe FCPA Alert Published by Competition Law360

Selected Publications

• Racing to a Locked Door? SEC Issues Final Whistleblower Bounty Rule and Announces First Deferred Prosecution Agreement, Revealing Competing Incentives for Corporate Self Reporting
  June 7, 2011
• UN Guiding Principles for Business & Human Rights: Issuance of Ruggie Principles Portends Increasing Need for Multinational Businesses to Focus on Human Rights Compliance
  April 20, 2011
• FCPA Year in Review 2010
  March 15, 2011
• The Widening FCPA Dragnet
  November 29, 2010, Journal of Securities Operations & Custody
• International Law Advisory - Whistleblower Provisions in Dodd-Frank Legislation Provide Further Impetus to Increased FCPA Investigations and Enforcement
  July 26, 2010
• Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Legislation Requires Extractive Industry Participants to Disclose Payments to Governments
  July 21, 2010
• New Corporate Social Responsibility Mandate Related to Conflict Materials in the New Financial Reform Bill Could Affect Many Companies
  July 20, 2010
• International Law Advisory - Flurry of FCPA Cases Closes Out 2009; Enforcement Continues Apace in Early 2010
  March 16, 2010

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Professional Affiliations

• International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA) Commercial Fraud Commission, Vice President
• Inter-American Bar Association, Working Group on Money Laundering and Corruption, Vice President