Richard W. Grime is a litigation partner in the Washington office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Washington, DC office and a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations Practice Group and the Securities Enforcement Practice Group.
Mr. Grime's practice focuses on representing companies and individuals in corruption, accounting fraud, and securities enforcement matters before the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice. Mr. Grime also conducts internal investigations and counsels clients on compliance and corporate governance matters.
Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Mr. Grime spent over nine years in the Division of Enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC. In his last four years at the Commission he was an Assistant Director. While at the SEC, Mr. Grime supervised the filing of over 70 enforcement actions covering a wide range of the Commission's activities. These included a series of FCPA cases including the first FCPA case involving SEC penalties for violations of a prior Commission order, numerous financial fraud cases involving retail, technology and financial services companies, regulated entity cases involving broker-dealers, transfer agents and investment advisers, along with multiple insider trading and Ponzi-scheme enforcement actions.
Mr. Grime is currently ranked in Chambers USA Nationwide FCPA and Chambers Global FCPA and was recently selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© 2016 in the field of Criminal Defense: White Collar. Mr. Grime was recognized in Who’s Who Legal: Investigations 2016 and was noted as “brilliant” for internal investigation, compliance and corporate governance work. Mr. Grime was recognized as one of the 3000 “Leading Lawyers in America” in Lawdragon Magazine 2011. He is also a longstanding and frequent speaker to legal and industry practitioners particularly on anti-corruption and securities enforcement topics.
Mr. Grime received his law degree with First Class Honors from Oxford University in 1986 and qualified as a solicitor in London. Following law school, and before joining the SEC, Mr. Grime was a litigator for 10 years in private practice.
