Holly A. Roth

Holly Roth is a litigation attorney in Holland & Knight's Tysons office with significant government contracts experience. Ms. Roth focuses her practice on a wide range of counseling and litigation relating to federal, state and local government procurement matters, as well as federal assistance agreements and grants. She advises clients on compliance programs, protests, claims, disputes, Office of Inspector General (OIG) audit and investigation responses, as well as proposed suspensions and debarments.

Ms. Roth counsels clients on regulations that govern civilian and U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) agencies' acquisition of technology, both commercial and developmental, and the application of the Bayh-Dole Act. She has extensive experience with commercial, developmental, architect and engineering, and construction contracts with the federal government and prime contractors. She has also advised clients on foreign military sales and direct commercial sales using foreign military financing. The range of her experience includes firm fixed-price, time and material, and cost-plus type contracts.

Ms. Roth's experience includes the full range of government contract mergers and acquisitions (M&A) matters, such as due diligence to evaluate and mitigate the risk associated with acquiring a government contractor, and review and assessment of the potential target's compliance programs. She advises clients on the scope of representations required in stock and asset purchase agreements, Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) filings and the applicability of novation agreements and information required to be included in novation agreements.

Ms. Roth has successfully represented clients in claims and disputes before state and federal Boards of Contract Appeals and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, as well as in suspension and debarment proceedings before agency Suspension and Debarment Officials. She has successfully brought and defended against bid protests at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), Federal Claims Court and the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Office of Dispute Resolution for Acquisition (ODRA).

In addition, Ms. Roth represents clients before the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Hearings and Appeals and counsels clients on compliance with the SBA's government contracting programs. Ms. Roth advises clients on the post-employment and conflict of interest restrictions that apply to federal government employees as well as the standards of ethical conduct for federal government employees.

Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Ms. Roth worked for a national law firm in its Washington, D.C., office.