Omer Farukhi is a Complex Litigation + Advisement attorney in Morrison Foerster’s Washington, D.C. office. He represents major corporations, global pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, agricultural companies, construction and engineering companies, and government contractors with over two decades of extensive litigation and trial experience, including product liability, white collar, criminal, and securities enforcement matters. His day-to-day work includes all aspects of trial preparation, including procedural and dispositive motions, written discovery, depositions, appearances for motions hearings and court conferences, witness preparation, and coordinating matters with local counsel nationwide.

His experience includes serving on the trial team for a multi-party complex engineering and construction trial involving breach of contract, negligence, and fraud claims, representing an international development and supply chain logistics contractor in an international arbitration involving breach of contract and fraud claims, managing large scale multidistrict litigation for global pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers involved in product liability claims, representing an individual seafarer client in defense of various maritime and environmental criminal liabilities resulting from violations of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships, and representing a major mutual fund in defense of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s and New York Attorney General’s investigation into the mutual fund scandal of 2003 related to market timing and late trading.  

Additionally, Omer is experienced with white collar criminal defense involving Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendment issues and matters involving habeas corpus situations, search & seizure, and Miranda warnings. He has comprehensive experience with the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and has represented companies facing parallel investigations, prosecutions, and litigation of the same fact issues by federal, state, and foreign country agencies and authorities.  

Omer also previously investigated broker-dealers regarding suspicious trading patterns and activity at the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), now part of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).  

During law school, Omer served as vice chancellor and as a member of the Moot Court Association’s National Trials Team. He also served as a supervised prosecutor in the State’s Attorney’s Office in Montgomery County, Maryland and as a law clerk in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, where he assisted in prosecuting cases involving terrorism and national security.