Jill Keller Hengen

Jill Keller Hengen is an attorney in Holland & Knight's Atlanta office and a member of the Regulatory Practice Group. Ms. Hengen helps companies with global reach manage their U.S. enforcement and liability risk. She leads internal, global and government-facing investigations across a broad spectrum of matters, with substantial experience in the life sciences and healthcare sectors. Ms. Hengen has worked successfully to strengthen and build out corporate compliance programs regarding anticorruption, privacy, trade, workplace culture and environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters.

Ms. Hengen's portfolio of work includes extensive experience in government affairs, congressional investigations, crisis management and proactive compliance reviews, as well as investigations involving anticorruption, accounting fraud, national security, environmental compliance and problematic conduct by public company officers. Clients turn to Ms. Hengen when government and public scrutiny, compliance concerns and internal challenges converge. Ms. Hengen helps corporate leaders look beyond the four corners of an issue to assess risk through legal, political, reputational and operational lenses and help them make the right decisions under pressure.

Ms. Hengen's government relations experience positions her to take a multifaceted approach to investigations that involve the legal and policy arenas. She helps clients navigate the political and reputational challenges that may arise during investigations and crafts strategies that account for related media and public scrutiny. For example, Ms. Hengen has represented a Fortune Global 500/Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE) 100 life sciences company in a multiyear Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigation in the Middle East and Asia, a global charity in an investigation arising from allegations of diversion of humanitarian funds to designated terrorist organization in the Middle East, as well as the audit committee of a public life sciences company regarding allegations of accounting fraud, whistleblower retaliation and violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and False Claims Act (FCA).

In addition, Ms. Hengen is an active member of the Atlanta legal community and has been a leader in numerous charitable, political and diversity initiatives throughout her career, including those dedicated to increasing the number of women in the legal profession and elected to public office.

Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Hengen was an attorney at an international law firm in its Atlanta office.