Mr. Stuart H. Deming

Stuart H. Deming represents domestic and foreign clients in a range of business and investigatory matters. He provides advice on international transactions, develops and assists in the implementation of compliance programs, directs and conducts due diligence and internal investigations, and represents clients before federal and state agencies and international institutions. His regulatory practice focuses on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), including Sarbanes-Oxley, and a range of related issues like the UK Bribery Act, Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act, and Brazil’s Clean Companies Act. He has successfully litigated on appeal complex international legal issues as well as handled delicate matters involving foreign figures. As a CPA with an MBA, he has also dealt with complex accounting-related issues. Mr. Deming began his legal career as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Michigan where he managed a major grand jury investigation of kickbacks by a major German multinational corporation and litigated a landmark case requiring the production of foreign records by the Deutsche Bank AG. He later joined the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. where he managed the investigation of major corporations for violations of U.S. securities laws, including the successful investigation of a Fortune 500 company for accounting fraud. Before going into private practice, Mr. Deming prosecuted public figures, foreign nationals, and executives of major corporations at the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. After joining the Washington, D.C. law firm of Steptoe & Johnson in 1987, Mr. Deming was directly involved in the representation of a major defense contractor. He later served with the U.S. Department of State in conjunction with the 1990 Economic Summit in Houston before serving with the U.S. Department of Defense. In 1992, Mr. Deming was asked to return to the Department of Justice to serve as one of the special prosecutors in a highly sensitive and complex investigation involving many members of the U.S. Congress. In 1996, he was one of the founding members of INMAN DEMING LLP where he practiced in Washington, D.C. and in Michigan until 2003 when he his established DEMING PLLC in Washington, D.C. and in Michigan. A recognized expert, Mr. Deming has written and spoken extensively in the United States and abroad on the FCPA and other anti-corruption initiatives. He is the author of Oxford University Press’ Anti-Bribery Laws in Common Law Jurisdictions; the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Designing an Effective Anti-Bribery Compliance Program: A Practical Guide for Business, the co-author with a leading English barrister of the ABA’s The FCPA and UK Bribery Act: A Ready Reference for Business; and the author of a best-selling ABA publication: The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the New International Norms. For many years, he was a member of the Board of Editorial Advisers to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Reporter; he co-chaired the ABA's national institutes on the FCPA; and he co-founded what is now the ABA's Anti-Corruption Committee. Mr. Deming recieved his B.A., M.B.A., and J.D. from the University of Michigan.