The Hintze Law PLLC Regulatory Group assists and defends clients in response to inquiries, investigations, and enforcement actions by government agencies. We provide efficient and effective representation and strategic guidance to help companies of all sizes navigate complex regulatory processes and achieve favorable results.

We help clients with FTC Section 5 investigations and Section 6(b) orders, HHS OCR, state attorney general actions, inquiries from consumer protection agencies, and multi-jurisdictional and global investigations.  

Our Approach

Of course, our compliance practice aims to reduce our clients’ legal risk and to put them in the best position to respond to legal or regulatory investigations.

But when regulators do come calling, we pride ourselves on a response strategy that focuses on many factors, including:

When your company receives a civil investigative demand or other investigative order, we will get to work immediately. We dive in and help you understand the nature and scope of the alleged incident, as well as the merits of allegations. We develop legal and regulatory engagement. strategies, We explore ways to contain and remediate any problems and other possible mitigations.

If appropriate, we present your story early to investigators to help them understand this is not a strong case and to convince them move on their way. In other cases, where we proceed to respond to information requests, we work to negotiate to help narrow the scope of investigations to make the process as painless as possible. And we present the responsive information in a compelling manner and, where we are able, we provide other positive and/or mitigating facts that the regulators may not have asked for or considered – all aimed at painting the most positive picture possible.

If your investigation results in an order, we will work to negotiate so that the order is as fair and clear as possible. We can help prepare you for requirements under the order including compliance obligations, preparing reports, and responding to third party audits. We can also help you prepare press responses to manage your brand reputation.

We can do all this in a way that presents as little cost and impact to your company as possible – particularly compared to firms used to costly litigation tactics. While we have attorneys with litigation experience, we do not litigate at Hintze Law, which means we never use the types of overly aggressive approaches more likely to lead you litigation, instead we take an approach of respectful advocacy to put you on a path of better future relations with regulators.

Our Expertise

Our firm focuses exclusively on privacy and data security. That means we have deeper knowledge and experience about privacy and cybersecurity laws, including exceptions & mitigations that may apply.

Our clients consistently praise us for our technical acumen. We take time to understand your technology so we can communicate with your engineers to get the facts right and explain to regulators what is really going on.

The types of regulatory investigations and inquiries that we have worked on include:

Representative Public Cases

Public FTC Investigations

Public EU Investigations

Section 6(b) Response:

Representative Non-Public Investigations Ongoing or Resulting in No Action

We have successfully* represented and/or defended: