Hiral D. Mehta

Hiral D. Mehta, a former federal prosecutor and seasoned trial lawyer, represents clients in high-stakes criminal and regulatory investigations and complex commercial and securities civil litigation.

Previously, Hiral served as Assistant United States Attorney in the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, where he was Chief of the Business & Securities Fraud Section. In that capacity, Hiral led and supervised hundreds of investigations of individuals and institutions focused on securities and commodities fraud, health care fraud, sanctions enforcement, export control violations, tax evasion, bribery, and fraud involving digital assets, and tried over a dozen federal cases to verdict, including several white-collar trials. He co-founded the District's Bank Integrity Task Force, charged with investigating individuals and corporations for laundering money through the US banking system and enforcing anti-money laundering controls under the Bank Secrecy Act. Hiral also worked closely with senior officers of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Office of Foreign Assets Control.

Prior to becoming a federal prosecutor, Hiral worked on complex commercial and securities litigation matters at a large international law firm in New York for several years, and was a law clerk for the Honorable Jennifer Walker Elrod, Chief Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.