Amy E. Schuh is a litigator turned authority on corporate ethics and compliance programs. She brings almost two decades of in-house experience in various roles in legal and compliance to counseling clients on how to build, enhance, and streamline corporate ethics and compliance programs. Amy provides counseling related to maturity assessments, risk assessments, investigations processes, anti-corruption programs, and ethics and compliance–related mergers and acquisitions due diligence and integration. Amy leads the firm’s corporate ethics and compliance practice.
Amy, a former senior vice president and chief ethics and compliance officer at a major information technology services company, enhanced its corporate ethics and compliance program, including by developing a robust global anti-corruption program. Amy worked closely with the US Department of Justice and US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in connection with the company's ongoing reporting requirements in connection with its Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) resolution. She also supported the company's active mergers and acquisitions (M&A) profile during due diligence and through integration.
Prior, Amy was the executive director of global investigations for a major international pharmaceutical company, where she managed a global team of lawyers responsible for conducting escalated internal investigations into alleged violations of the company’s code of conduct and for handling government investigations. She also enhanced the company’s compliance program, specifically as it related to its corporate policies and procedures and its global anti-corruption compliance program. Previously, in 2008, Amy was tapped to create a corporate compliance program for a Fortune 10 company.
Amy began her legal career as a litigation associate at Morgan Lewis and another global law firm. She is active in pro bono work, having co-founded and co-chaired a pro bono program that collaborated with the National Veterans Legal Services Program to help veterans access critical benefits. Amy has continued to serve on the board of directors since 2011 and is co-chair of the board.
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Member, Law360 Compliance Editorial Advisory Board(2022, 2023)
Co-Chair, National Veterans Legal Services Program (2021 to present); Board Member (since 2011)
Advocate Award, MAKERS (2020)
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