Megan Mocho

Megan Mocho is an attorney in Holland & Knight's Tysons office and a co-chair of the White Collar Defense and Investigations Team and the National Security & Defense Industry Group. Ms. Mocho is nationally recognized for her work in government contracts enforcement and False Claims Act (FCA) defense.

Ms. Mocho counsels corporate and individual clients through high-stakes government and internal investigations across highly regulated industries, including government contracting, aerospace, intelligence, banking and financial services, education, pharmaceutical, life sciences and medical device manufacturing. She also handles civil and criminal matters involving procurement and grant fraud, healthcare fraud, public corruption, financial crimes and whistleblower reprisal.

Ms. Mocho is recognized for her experience in the FCA arena, securing declinations, dismissals and favorable outcomes for clients during negotiation with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) or at the trial and appellate levels. She handles cases where the government has declined intervention and litigates relator-led cases at trial. Ms. Mocho leads responses to civil investigative demands (CIDs) and administrative or grand jury subpoenas.

Her broader government contracts enforcement work includes representations before Offices of Inspector General within the defense, civilian and intelligence community agencies. Ms. Mocho has tried cases under the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) and conducted internal investigations of classified programs. She supports clients facing suspension and debarment, addressing show-cause notices and negotiating administrative agreements.

Ms. Mocho's standing in the field is reflected in consistent recognition from the industry's leading legal publications. She is ranked in Chambers USA for Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations, listed in The Best Lawyers in America guide for Criminal Defense: White-Collar, and named by in-house counsel clients as a Stand-Out Lawyer in the Thomson Reuters survey.

Additionally, Ms. Mocho has been featured in The New York Times, ProPublica, Bloomberg, Financier Worldwide and regularly quoted in legal publications on matters related to the FCA. She is chair emeritus of the Federal Bar Association's Qui Tam Section, a post that brings together state and federal prosecutors, relator counsel and defense counsel across FCA and other whistleblower statutes, and she serves as an officer in the Virginia Chapter of the Women's White Collar Defense Association.