Vijay N. Rao leverages his experience as a federal prosecutor to counsel and defend clients in criminal antitrust matters and white-collar investigations.

As a Trial Attorney in the Washington Criminal Section of the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (DOJ), Vijay investigated and prosecuted cases involving bid rigging, price fixing, market allocation, criminal monopolization, wire fraud, public corruption and other criminal conspiracies. He has significant experience managing cooperating executives and companies through all aspects of the Antitrust Division’s Leniency Program. Vijay was also a key member of the DOJ’s Procurement Collusion Strike Force, a multi-agency team focused on investigating and prosecuting crimes affecting public procurement. In that role, he trained hundreds of federal, state and local officials on how to prevent and detect criminal antitrust violations. Vijay also served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, where he obtained first-chair trial experience prosecuting a variety of crimes committed in Washington, DC.

In private practice, Vijay has experience in a broad range of matters, including investigations related to SEC enforcement actions, the False Claims Act (FCA) and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). He has helped clients respond to grand jury subpoenas and civil investigative demands, prepared witnesses for grand jury testimony and interviews with government enforcers and conducted corruption risk assessments for companies operating in a variety of industries.