Mark C. Holscher
Professional Profile
Mark Holscher is a partner in the Firm's Los Angeles and San Francisco offices and a member of the Commercial Litigation and White Collar Criminal Defense & Securities Enforcement groups. He has been selected and profiled as a leading trial lawyer for the last several years in Chambers USA, Best Lawyers in America, and The International Who's Who of Business Crime Lawyers. In both 2009 and 2008, he was selected as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in California by the Daily Journal. In 2005, USA Today named Mark one of the ten most prominent criminal trial lawyers in the country.
Mark was named one of California Lawyer’s Lawyers of the Year 2000 for his successful defense of Los Alamos Nuclear Scientist Wen Ho Lee against espionage charges. While at O'Melveny, he was a member of the defense team for former Congressman Randall “Duke” Cunningham and one of the trial lawyers for Jeffrey Skilling’s criminal prosecution relating to the collapse of Enron.
Mark has represented Fortune 500 companies, audit committees, boards of directors, special committees and their executives in a broad range of criminal matters and has served as lead trial counsel in numerous complex civil litigation matters. Mark has overseen dozens of internal investigations for publicly traded companies over a broad range of issues, including insider trading and stock manipulation, alleged stock options backdating, FCPA investigations, allegations of price fixing, alleged theft of trade secrets and various financial and accounting fraud issues. He has also represented a variety of energy companies in several Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and RCRA matters, as well as various state AG regulatory investigations.
Mark served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California from 1989-1995, where he tried complex cases, including RICO, criminal bankruptcy, tax and fraud cases, as well as the Heidi Fleiss tax evasion and money laundering case. In addition, he successfully argued several cases before the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals during his time with the U.S. Attorney's office and while in private practice. In 1995, Mark was appointed Special Attorney to the U.S. Attorney General in the investigation of former Arizona Governor Symington.
Representative Matters
Represented publicly traded companies and corporate officers in federal grand jury and SEC investigations for alleged violations of federal securities laws
Represented doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers in criminal fraud investigations and regulatory proceedings
Represented multiple corporations and individuals in FCPA investigations
Represented individuals and corporations in civil and criminal tax investigations
Represented individuals and companies for alleged violations of hazardous waste disposal and other environmental laws
Represented individuals and corporations alleged to have violated the Economic Espionage Act and related state trade secret statutes
Represented individuals and corporations for alleged violation of federal antitrust laws
Represented individuals and corporations for alleged violation of federal campaign contribution laws
Represented private institutions involved in civil and criminal False Claims Act litigation with the United States
Represented a department of education in criminal and civil conflict of interest investigations
Represented individuals and corporations for alleged criminal customs violations
Memberships & Affiliations
Vice Chair, American Bar Association, National White Collar Crime Committee; American Bar Association, West Coast White Collar Crime CommitteeOther Distinctions
Civic or Charitable Activities:
Recipient, Asian American Legal Defense Fund, Justice In Action Award; Organization of Chinese Americans, Political Advancement Award; American Jewish Congress, Zedek Award for Enhancing Justice; National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA), Distinguished Service Award; Orange County Asian American Bar Association, 2001 Distinguished Service AwardSeminars
Speaker, Various conferences on White Collar Crime, including the ABA White Collar Criminal Conference; Federal Trade Commission Conference on Telemarketing Fraud; Washington, D.C., Bar Association Conference on Trends in Federal Criminal Prosecution; World Affairs Council's program on White Collar Crime; and various law schoolsPrior Experience
O'Melveny & Myers LLP, 1995-2007
Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney's Office, Central District of California, 1989-1995
