Nathan J. Hochman, the former head and Assistant Attorney General of the US Department of Justice’s Tax Division, practices complex civil and criminal litigation, with a focus on white collar criminal defense, tax controversy, securities, and environmental matters. Over the past three decades, he has represented individuals and organizations involved as targets, subjects, witnesses and victims in state and federal criminal and civil investigations, grand jury, pre-trial proceedings and trials, conducts internal investigations, and handles complex civil litigation, arbitrations, trials, and appeals. Nathan’s practice has spanned from representing the former Sheriff of Los Angeles County in two hotly contested federal criminal obstruction of justice trials to obtaining an acquittal in less than an hour in a federal criminal tax trial involving millions in contested charitable contributions to representing corporations involved in large-scale environmental prosecutions, individuals and companies accused of multi-million dollar Bank Secrecy Act offenses, and the former CEO of a technology company charged with a $98 million conspiracy and wire fraud violations. Through his efforts, over 100 of his clients have successfully entered the IRS Offshore Voluntary Disclosure Program since 2009, avoiding criminal prosecution and steep penalties and fines. In cases that have proceeded to court, Nathan has obtained sentences well below that recommended by the government; for example, one client was sentenced to “five seconds of probation” after the government argued for 2-3 years in prison in a case involving over $40 million in unreported foreign bank accounts. Prior to joining Browne George Ross, Nathan was a partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius, where he was the deputy chair their white collar investigations and enforcement practice, and a partner at Bingham McCutchen, where he was the chair of their white collar investigations and enforcement practice. Before joining the ranks of private practitioners, Nathan served for seven years as an Assistant US Attorney for the Criminal Division of the Central District of California. Nathan clerked for United States District Judge Stephen V. Wilson in Los Angeles. He has previously been appointed as a federal receiver in several cases. Brown University, 1985, Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum Laude Stanford Law School, 1988, Juris Doctor