Terence Lynam’s practice focuses on white collar criminal defense and complex civil litigation. He has over 30 years of litigation experience and has represented clients in investigations and trials against the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Congress, state attorneys general and private parties.

Mr. Lynam’s experience includes representing clients in a wide range of matters involving allegations such as insider trading, false and misleading statements by public companies, market manipulation, health care fraud, government contract fraud, environmental crimes, violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and complex commercial litigation. He has also counseled clients regarding compliance matters, including compliance with the FCPA and the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley. He has also served as co-counsel in several prominent investigations for the commissioner of baseball, including the Pete Rose gambling investigation.

Representative experience includes—

• representation of hedge fund manager in high-profile insider trading criminal trial in New York involving the first use of wiretaps in an insider trading investigation
• representation of stock broker in criminal insider trading investigation and civil trial against the SEC
• representation of Arizona governor in criminal trial on charges of bank fraud, extortion and false statements regarding financial statements
• representation of bank president in bank fraud trial involving bank lending practices
• representation of insurance executive in commercial bribery trial
• representation of U.S. senator before the Senate Ethics Committee
• representation of European company in DOJ investigation regarding alleged U.S. export control violations involving high-tech military equipment
• representation of U.S. Army colonel in the Iran-Contra hearings
• representation of board chairman in SEC investigation involving allegations of false public filings by biotech company
• representation of hospital corporation in DOJ investigation of Medicare billing practices
• representation of high-tech company in arbitration trial involving contractual dispute in telecommunications industry
• representation of major oil company in DOJ criminal environmental investigation regarding refinery operations.

After a judicial clerkship, Mr. Lynam began his career as a prosecutor in the Department of Justice, which he joined through the Honors Program in 1979. During his five years at DOJ, he worked as a prosecutor, primarily in the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division. While there, he conducted grand jury investigations and tried cases involving the FCPA, mail and wire fraud, bribery and kickbacks. He was an original member of DOJ’s Defense Procurement Fraud Unit, where he investigated and prosecuted major fraud and corruption cases involving defense contractors. Mr. Lynam also served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia (Alexandria, Virginia), where he prosecuted a wide range of criminal cases. He was also an appellate attorney with the Appellate Section of the Criminal Division of DOJ. Mr. Lynam has presented oral argument before more than half of the federal circuit courts of appeals in the United States.

Mr. Lynam was named to Washingtonian magazine’s list of “Top Lawyers” (2011) and has been recognized by Super Lawyers. He is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches a White Collar Crime seminar (Spring 2010, 2012). He also has been a speaker before the American Bar Association Public Contracts Section on the subject of criminal investigations. He received his B.A. cum laude in mathematics and political science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975 and his J.D. magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in 1978.