Cahill Gordon & Reindel, Greenberg Traurig, and Jones Day have been hired by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. as it copes with the fallout from an alleged bribery and corruption scheme involving a Mexican subsidiary.
Wal-Mart spokesman David Tovar provided The Am Law Daily with details on the composition of the company’s outside and in-house legal teams Wednesday as it moves to ensure compliance with U.S. anticorruption and bribery laws and to investigate claimsfirst reported by The New York Times in an explosive front-page Sunday feature storya cover-up of illicit conduct involving executives of its Wal-Mart de Mexico unit.
