Kathryn Cameron Atkinson is a member at the Washington D.C. law firm of Miller & Chevalier, where she coordinates the firm’s multi-disciplinary corporate compliance practice.  Ms. Atkinson has focused in particular on the design and implementation of custom-tailored international regulatory compliance programs for large and small companies in a wide range of industries.  Her compliance practice also includes performing compliance audits, training company personnel and third parties, and working with companies to perform effective due diligence and to design tailored safeguards in complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions.

Ms. Atkinson advises clients on corruption issues around the world.  This advice has included compliance with the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and related laws and international treaties in a wide variety of contexts, including formal opinions, internal investigations, enforcement actions by the Department of Justice and the SEC, and commercial litigation raising payment issues.  She was a member of the Transparency International task force that developed a compliance toolkit for small and medium-sized entities.   She co-produced, with Homer E. Moyer, Jr., Comply But Compete, a versatile, video-based FCPA training program.

Ms. Atkinson’s recent accomplishments include creating and chairing an annual International Corporate Compliance Conference, sponsored by the Institute for International and Comparative Law (IICL) of the Center for American and International Law (CAIL). The conference provides a coordinated discussion by government, in-house and outside experts on key international compliance issues facing U.S. and multi-national companies.   Ms. Atkinson is an active member of the Executive Committee of the Center for American and International Law (CAIL) and assists in designing continuing legal education programs for foreign lawyers. 

Ms. Atkinson speaks regularly on compliance at national conferences, is an active participant in the annual IBA and ACI conferences on corruption, and has published several articles regarding the FCPA and multilateral anti-corruption efforts and conventions, including “The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act:    Compliance Issues in the Tax and Customs Arena,” 57 The Tax Executive 446 (2005) with James G. Tillen; “A Guide to Using Outside Investigators in Conducting FCPA Due Diligence,” For the 9th Annual American Conference Institute Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (2002), “The Inter-American Convention Against Corruption:  A Comparison with the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,” 38 Va. J. Int’l Law 243 (1998) with Lucinda A. Low and Andrea K. Bjorklund.    

Ms. Atkinson graduated from Cornell Law School, where she was Executive Editor of the Cornell International Law Journal.  She is a member of the President’s Council of Cornell Women.  She received her Bachelor of Arts degree with Departmental Honors in International Studies from The Johns Hopkins University.