Overview
Cáitrín McKiernan focuses her practice on compliance and investigations, particularly with respect to the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. She regularly conducts multijurisdictional internal investigations, crafts compliance policies, offers proactive compliance counseling, conducts compliance risk assessments, and leads interactive compliance training. Clients describe Cáitrín as “outstanding,” per Global Investigations Review.
Cáitrín brings significant experience in compliance matters in the US and related to Asia Pacific, and has advised clients on issues arising from business operations in Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, The Philippines, and Vietnam. Her clients are comprised of leading multinationals across sectors, with a particular emphasis on the technology and retail/manufacturing sectors. From January 2019-January 2020, Cáitrín was seconded to a leading US-listed technology company, where she led the company’s internal compliance investigations in Asia Pacific.
A former Fulbright Fellow to China and Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar to Taiwan, Cáitrín is committed to fostering dialogue. She is also committed to promoting diversity in the legal profession. In this vein, she founded and hosts The Steptoe Coffee Club for Women in Law, a monthly gathering that brings together legal luminaries to engage in a fireside chat before an intentionally small audience of in-house counsel.
- California
- New York
- Hon. Jack B. Weinstein, US District Court, Eastern District of New York
- J.D., University of California, Berkeley School of Law, Certificate of Specialization in International Law
- B.A., Stanford University, with departmental honors in Chinese History
- Princeton in Beijing (普北班) (intensive advanced Mandarin program)
Representative Matters
- Year-long secondment leading all internal compliance investigations in Asia Pacific for leading US-listed technology company.
- Led an interactive Code of Conduct training, in Mandarin Chinese, on behalf of US-listed technology company.
- Conducted internal investigation on behalf of Special Committee to the Board of Directors of US-listed technology company.
- Conducted internal investigations in APAC into manufacturing operations of a leading US-listed company.
- Conducted post-acquisition anti-corruption compliance due diligence of over 300 third party vendors on behalf of US-listed software company.
- Conducted internal investigation into certain APAC operations of a leading US-listed data company.
- Conducted internal investigations in Vietnam on behalf of US-listed retail company.
- Conducted series of internal investigations into certain APAC operations of US-listed software company.
- Conducted anti-corruption compliance risk assessments for US-listed data company and a unicorn start-up and, based on findings, drafted suites of risk-based compliance policies.
News & Publications
Press Releases
Global Investigations Review Names Steptoe a Top 30 International Investigations Firm
November 21, 2023
Events
Webinars
Investigations & Enforcement Webinar Series
July 27, 2023
Speakers: Jason Abel, Lee Berger, Christopher R. Conte, Amba M. Datta, Stacie R. Hartman, Patrick F. Linehan, Lucinda A. Low, Cáitrín McKiernan, Michael Campion Miller, Zoe Osborne, Wendy Wysong
Noteworthy
- The Irish Legal 100 (2023)
- Elected Term Member, Council on Foreign Relations (2017-2022)
- Climate Strategies Accelerator Fellow, The David & Lucile Packard Foundation (2016)
- “40 Under 40,” Irish Echo (2008)
- U.S. Department of State Fulbright Fellow to Fudan University (复旦大学), Shanghai, China (2004-2005)
- Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar to Taiwan (2004)