Biography
Jessica Heim is a Partner at Vinson & Elkins LLP and a member of the firm’s Government Investigations and White Collar Criminal Defense practice. Jessica’s practice focuses on internal and government investigations, white collar criminal defense, corporate governance counseling, and related litigation. Jessica represents clients in industries ranging from technology, to banking, food, oil and gas, chemicals, steel, auto-parts, and pharmaceuticals. She counsels clients on a wide range of compliance issues and assists them with proactive compliance measures, finding creative ways to develop and implement formal compliance programs and processes and defending those programs to regulators. She has helped clients navigate high-stakes matters involving anti-corruption, anti-money laundering and anti-bribery laws, accounting fraud, market manipulation, bid rigging, cartels, unfair and deceptive trade practices, misappropriation of trade secrets, economic and trade sanctions, cybersecurity and data privacy, securities violations, PPP-related fraud under the CARES Act, and mail/wire fraud.
Jessica represents companies and individuals before the United States Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, state Attorneys General, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and other federal and state agencies, international regulatory bodies, and the courts. She also assists with board trainings on a variety of topics from cybersecurity to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Jessica has been designated a Certified Information Privacy Professional by the IAPP. She was also selected to the Northern California Rising Stars list and the Legal 500 U.S., Corporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal Defense, 2019 and 2020.