Tina Reynolds is an Of Counsel in Morrison & Foerster's Government Contracts Practice. She represents a wide variety of government contractors including information technology, defense, and pharmaceutical companies, with a focus on general contract counseling, compliance, and litigation.
Tina counsels contractors on compliance with federal acquisition and ethics regulations. She has been involved with numerous internal investigations and compliance reviews, and with voluntary disclosures to agency Inspectors General. Tina routinely advises clients concerning prime-subcontractor relationships, sources of supply, price reductions and price reporting issues, organizational conflicts of interest, the safeguarding of intellectual property and other proprietary interests, the handling of classified materials, and agency suspension and debarment proceedings. She also assists clients with due diligence and other activities related to the acquisition of government contracting concerns, and with the drafting and negotiation of teaming agreements, subcontracts, licensing agreements, and cooperative research and development agreements.
Tina's litigation experience includes government contracts claims litigation in federal courts and before boards of contract appeals, bid protests before the Government Accountability Office and the Court of Federal Claims, and complex disputes in federal courts, including civil fraud and False Claims Act litigation. She has extensive experience with class action defense and multidistrict litigation.
Tina joined Morrison & Foerster in 2012 after serving as counsel at Dickstein Shapiro, where she practiced since 1997. Previously she worked as a trial attorney in the Office of the General Counsel of the Navy, Navy Litigation Office.
Tina is admitted to practice in North Carolina, the District of Columbia, and before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She is a member of the North Carolina, District of Columbia, and American Bar Associations.
Prior representative experience includes:
- Represented a major pharmaceutical manufacturer in federal multi-district litigation involving allegations of Medicare and Medicaid pricing fraud and False Claims Act violations and in analogous state actions brought by numerous state Attorneys General.
- Successfully defended award of a contract for transportation security services at a major U.S. airport before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
- Represented a major defense contractor in AAA arbitration against former teaming partner.
- Defeated a challenge by two disappointed bidders to the award of a multi-million dollar contract for armored vehicles to a major defense manufacturer at the Government Accountability Office.
- Assisted multiple clients with voluntary disclosures to various agency Inspectors General of pricing irregularities and regulatory violations.