Richard N. Dean

Richard N. Dean is a lecturer at UVA Law School. He has been co-teaching Emerging Markets with Professor Paul Stephan since 1993 and teaching Global Business and International Corruption since 2021.

Dean is a 1980 graduate of the Law School and spent 42 years in private practice with Coudert Brothers (1980-2005) and Baker McKenzie (2005-2022). He began his career in New York with Coudert doing mergers and acquisitions and other transactional work, particularly in emerging markets. He was resident in the firm’s Sydney, Australia, office from 1985-87 and opened Coudert’s Moscow office in 1988. Coudert was the first American law firm to open an office in the Soviet Union. In 1991, Dean returned to the firm’s Washington, D.C., office where he led the firm’s Russia and Central Asia practice until the firm ceased operations in 2005.

He joined Baker McKenzie’s Washington, D.C., office in 2005 and transitioned his practice to focus on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. For the next 17 years, he represented clients in FCPA cases, including leading complex, multi-country corruption investigations and defending clients in such cases before the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission. He also advised clients on the FCPA compliance aspects of acquisitions, joint ventures and other corporate transactions, and on the creation and implementation of anti-corruption compliance programs to comply with DOJ and SEC standards.