Larry Gaydos is a partner in the White Collar Defense/Antitrust Practice Group at Haynes and Boone. He has extensive experience in white collar criminal defense and government investigations, including antitrust, federal securities, defense procurement, foreign trade, environmental and general criminal matters. He also has extensive experience in civil antitrust litigation, antitrust counseling, internal investigations, and federal criminal appeals. He serves as the Chair of the firm's Sarbanes-Oxley Committee and is on the firm's Stock Option Backdating Task Force, and the Professional Responsibility Committee.

Mr. Gaydos' recent representations include:

• Defense of a CFO of a foreign subsidiary of a multinational oil company in a foreign criminal tax case.
• Representation of a Texas law firm in state civil litigation against another Texas law firm regarding breach of fiduciary duty and breach of contract claims.
• Defense of a national manufacturing company in federal civil litigation regarding monopolization claims.
• Counseling clients and conducting internal investigations involving stock option backdating issues.
• Defense of a CEO in a DOJ public corruption investigation.
• Defense of an oil industry client on allegations of nationwide price fixing.
• Defense of a financial analyst in a parallel IRS and DOJ tax investigation.
• Defense of an energy company on allegations of price fixing and monopolization.
• Defense of individuals in a Homeland Security criminal investigation.
• Representation of the board of directors of a health care company in parallel SEC and DOJ investigations.
• Internal investigation for the board of directors of an international travel industry company regarding securities issues.
• Defense of a technology company on allegations of procurement fraud.
• Internal corporate investigation for a large national manufacturing company concerning state and federal environmental issues.
• Internal investigation for the audit committee of an international drilling and exploration company regarding securities issues.
• Internal investigations for the audit committee of a national telecommunications industry client regarding whistleblower allegations and securities issues.
• Internal investigation for the audit committee of a foreign petroleum company regarding securities issues.
• Representation of the CEO of a national computer technology company in an internal investigation.
• Representation of the CEO/GC of a national technology company in a SEC investigation and civil litigation concerning stock option issues.
• Representation of two retail clients as plaintiffs in a multi-national price-fixing case.
• Representation of defense industry client in plaintiff antitrust monopolization case against an industry competitor.
• Internal investigation for audit committee of a Canadian energy company and its United States subsidiary.

Mr. Gaydos speaks frequently on topics such as "A Practical Guide to Option Backdating," "Criminal and Ethical Implications of Sarbanes-Oxley," "Internal Investigations," "Accountant Civil and Criminal Liability," "Grand Jury Representations," "Antitrust Compliance," "Health Care Fraud," and "Cybercrime." He served as a panelist at the Annual Institute on Federal Program Fraud in Washington, D.C., lectured at the Advanced Health Care Course, and was a panelist on the ABA Antitrust Section Teleseminar "Internet Investigations for Multi-National Corporations: Strategies in Light of Global Attorney-Client Privilege Decisions." Mr. Gaydos is a contributing author to the ABA Litigation Section book "Internal Corporate Investigations," (3d ed. 2007). He was selected as The Leading Antitrust Lawyer in Tarrant County by Fort Worth Magazine (Dec. 2002), selected by Euromoney Legal Guide to appear in the 1997 Guide to the World's Leading Litigation Lawyers and is AV® Peer Review Rated Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell® Law Directory. Mr. Gaydos is past Chair and Council member of the Antitrust and Business Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas. His most recent publications are "Corporate Governance Issues in Antitrust Internal Investigations" published in the March 2008 ABA Antitrust Compliance Bulletin; "Insights on the Criminal & Civil Antitrust Practice" published in the Inside the Minds series: The Art & Science of Antitrust Laws - Leading Lawyers on Compensation, Litigation and Globalization, and Strafford Legal Briefings' "Internal Investigations: Before the Government Comes Knocking - Evaluating and Preparing for Investigations" and "Internal Investigations: Conducting Investigations and Protecting Corporate Rights and Interests." He is the past Regional Chair of the ABA White Collar Crime Committee of the ABA Criminal Justice Section.

Prior to joining Haynes and Boone, Mr. Gaydos served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for two years, and spent 11 years in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps where he prosecuted and defended military criminal cases. He later served as a professor at The Judge Advocate General's School in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he taught procurement fraud, pretrial investigations, advanced trial advocacy, sentencing and professional responsibility, as well as a variety of substantive criminal courses. Mr. Gaydos left active military duty in 1986 as a Major.

Military Education

• Airborne School, 1971
• 31st Judge Advocate General School Graduate Course, 1983, Distinguished Graduate

Other Publications

Mr. Gaydos also authored articles on criminal law topics published in The Military Law Review and The Army Lawyer.

Selected Representative Experience

Memberships

• American Bar Association (Antitrust, White Collar Criminal Sections)
• State Bar of Texas
• Virginia State Bar
• Tarrant County Bar Association
• Dallas Bar Association
• Arlington Bar Association (Board of Directors)

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