Richard N Dean

Overview

Richard N Dean is an Instructor at the University of Virginia School of Law. He has been co-teaching Emerging Markets with Professor Paul Stephan since 1993 and teaching Global Business and International Corruption since 2021.

Richard spent 42 years in private practice with Coudert Brothers (1980-2005) and Baker McKenzie (2005-2022). He began his career in New York with Coudert doing mergers and acquisitions and other transactional work. He was resident in the firm’s Sydney, Australia office from 1985-87. In Sydney, he led the firm’s corporate and securities practice and negotiated joint ventures in the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia. In 1988, Richard opened Coudert’s Moscow office. Coudert was the first American law firm to open an office in the Soviet Union. In 1991 he returned to the firm’s Washington DC office where he led the firm’s Russia and Central Asia practice until the firm ceased operations in 2005.

He joined Baker McKenzie’s Washington DC office in 2005 and transitioned his practice to focus on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. For the next seventeen years, he represented clients in FCPA cases, including leading complex, multi-country corruption investigations and defending clients in such cases before the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). He also advised clients on the FCPA compliance aspects of acquisitions, joint ventures and other corporate transactions and on the creation and implementation of anti-corruption compliance programs to comply with DOJ and SEC standards.

Richard is a graduate of Vanderbilt University (BA 1977), the University of Virginia School of Law (JD 1980) and the University of Virginia School of Foreign Affairs (MA 1980).