Mark Racanelli

Partner

Mark A. Racanelli is partner in O’Melveny's New York office and a member of the White Collar Defense and Corporate Investigations Practice.  Mark has extensive experience litigating and counseling clients in global enforcement and antitrust matters.  His practice focuses on white collar criminal defense, criminal and civil antitrust and general commercial litigation.

Before joining O’Melveny, Mark served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York for five years.  During that time, Mark prosecuted a variety of criminal cases—including money laundering and RICO cases—handled complex grand jury investigations and tried numerous cases to verdict.  In 2005, Mark was an Acting Chief of the General Crimes Unit at the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Mark has represented individuals, companies and other entities in various criminal and regulatory enforcement matters, including investigations handled by the United States Attorney's Offices in the Southern District of New York, the Southern District of California and the Eastern District of Texas, the United States Department of Justice, the New York State Attorney General's Office, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, the SEC and the NASD.  Mark has also conducted corporate internal investigations relating to criminal and regulatory issues.

His practice has also included many antitrust litigation and counseling matters, including monopolization, price-fixing, market allocation, dealer termination, unfair trade practices, predatory pricing and retail price maintenance cases.  Mark has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in civil antitrust litigation, including defendants in large, multi-district class actions.

Mark has extensive appellate litigation experience before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. 

Professional Activities

Admitted to Practice, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Former, Assistant U.S. Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York; Acting Chief, General Crimes Unit, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York
Publications, “On Government Suppression of Defense Testimony,” New York Law Journal, July 3, 2007, at 4 (co-authored with Howard Heiss); “Can An Employee’s Proffer Be Used Against the Company?” New York Law Journal, June 27, 2006, at 4 (co-authored with Howard Heiss); “Criminal Antitrust Enforcement: Will States Take the Plunge?” The ABA Antitrust Counselor, Vol. 2.6 (April 2006); “Bugs in the Boardroom? Congress is Poised to Allow Wiretapping in Federal Antitrust Investigations,” The Antirust Source, Vol. 5, Issue 3 (January 2006); “Senate to Consider Broadening Wiretap Law in Antitrust Cases,” New York Law Journal, Oct. 24, 2005, at 4; “Refusals to Deal in the Context of Network Joint Ventures,” 52 Bus. Lawyer 531 (1997) (co-authored with William H. Pratt and James D. Sonda); “State and Federal Antitrust Enforcement in the United States: Collision or Harmony?” 9 Conn. J. Int’l. L. 499 (1994) (co-authored with Donald L. Flexner).