Anne Carpenter is a seasoned legal professional specializing in civil and criminal defense with a focus on complex multi-agency government investigations and regulatory enforcement actions. She navigates clients through crisis response (from fatalities and releases to compliance complaints) and is known for bringing a keen understanding of technically complex issues to her representation of energy, manufacturing, and highly regulated industries, including government contractors. Her experience includes internal investigations, suspension or debarment proceedings, corporate governance issues, and comprehensive compliance counseling. She routinely advises clients on strengthening their corporate compliance programs in tandem to enforcement actions, or proactively, to mitigate business and enforcement risk. Clients rely on her ability to build strategic compliance frameworks that reduce enforcement risk and strengthen operational resilience; she routinely receives praise for her focus on strategies that incorporate business realities.

In addition, to deep ethics and compliance experience, Anne's background includes both representation of corporate entities and individuals in the investigation and defense of civil and criminal matters under environmental (CAA, CWA, RCRA, FIFRA), workplace safety (OSHA), and other regulatory schemes (FRA, PHMSA, FAA). She is adept at navigating the intersection of regulatory matters with traditional white-collar enforcement under Title 18 to help clients successfully resolve government actions and mitigate risk. Anne also has unique experience in assisting energy clients with mitigating, anticipating, and resolving the consequences of enforcement to federal contract and funding issues, in particular suspension and debarment actions. In addition to her enforcement defense and litigation work, she has been appointed to independent monitor teams tasked with overseeing the implementation of external and internal corporate compliance mandates.