About Eric Bruce

Eric Bruce is a partner in Freshfields’ global investigations, white-collar criminal defence, and disputes practice. He represents boards of directors, multi-national corporations, and individual executives in complex white-collar criminal defence matters and corporate investigations. Eric is one of the relatively few lawyers in the USA who has tried an FCPA case to verdict and succeeded in getting all charges against his client dismissed. He previously served in the US Department of Justice as Counselor to the Attorney General and Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division. Eric also spent more than ten years as a prosecutor in the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.