Christopher A. Myers is Chair of Holland & Knight's Compliance Services Team and a member of the firm's White Collar Defense Team. He is a former federal prosecutor and has represented clients in a broad range of complex matters affecting heavily-regulated industries, including health and life sciences, government contracts, financial institutions, educational institutions, publicly-traded and privately held companies doing business both domestically and internationally. He has defended and protected organizations in both internal and external civil and criminal fraud investigations, design, implementation and assessments of compliance and ethics programs; voluntary disclosures, and corporate governance matters. For thirty years, he has helped clients respond to issues involving all of the major enforcement statutes, including the False Claims Act, bribery and anti-kickback acts, the Bank Secrecy Act and Money Laundering Control Act, procurement fraud statutes and many others. He is a member of the firm's Financial Recovery Team and helps to protect clients against compliance and enforcement issues surrounding the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) and the economic stimulus programs. Mr. Myers is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional. He is the editor of the Corporate Compliance Answer Book, published in 2009 by the Practicing Law Institute.