Law firm Paul Hastings has announced that Nathaniel Edmonds has joined the firm as a partner in the global compliance and disputes practice. Edmonds joins the firm from the Justice Department's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Unit, where he was an assistant chief and one of the longest-tenured FCPA prosecutors.

As assistant chief of the fraud section, Edmonds was responsible for directly supervising half of the investigations into transnational bribery. He also drafted portions of the FCPA Resource Guide.

During his nearly 10 years as a federal prosecutor, Edmonds has directly and indirectly supervised prosecutors in over 150 FCPA investigations, led high-profile investigations of some of the most important cases of the past several years, and partnered with numerous domestic and foreign law enforcement agencies to coordinate ongoing investigations and identify areas of mutual interest on corruption policy issues.

Edmonds also has focused on how to effectively build cooperation between law enforcement in multiple countries through his efforts as part of the U.S. delegation to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development's Working Group on Bribery and the U.S.-China Joint Liaison Group's Anti-Corruption Working Group. Most recently in February 2013, Edmonds helped to organize a program for over 130 law enforcement officials from over 30 countries discussing best practices for investigating transnational bribery and how to handle multi-jurisdictional enforcement.