Mary E. Mulligan
Mary E. Mulligan's practice combines white-collar criminal defense and internal investigations with intellectual property litigation. She served from 1997 to 2002 as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, directing investigations and prosecutions of fraud, narcotics, public corruption, and organized crime. She also led the government's largest Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation to date, which involved the alleged payment of tens of millions of dollars in bribes to the president of Kazakhstan in connection with major oil transactions in the 1990s.
Ms. Mulligan then served as Senior Director, Business and Legal Affairs, of Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company, where she handled corporate compliance matters, internal investigations, and privacy issues, and supervised litigation involving copyright, breach of contract, real estate and construction, bankruptcy, employment, and transfer and licensing of technology.
Ms. Mulligan has represented individuals and corporations in matters involving allegations of insider trading, stock-option backdating, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, criminal antitrust violations, tax fraud, internet fraud, healthcare fraud, and cyber stalking. She has extensive experience representing individuals outside the United States in responding to United States inquiries and investigations. She also has conducted internal investigations concerning alleged securities law violations, accounting control issues, and corporate governance practices. Her intellectual property practice has included defending a manufacturer of biological therapeutic products against breach of contract and trade secrets claims, representing a major consumer electronics manufacturer in putative nationwide class actions, and defending a cosmetics company against allegations of false advertising.
Ms. Mulligan graduated magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University in 1983 and received her law degree cum laude in 1989 from New York University School of Law. At NYU, she was a member of the Order of the Coif, held a Libel Defense Resource Center Fellowship, and received the American Jurisprudence Award in Administrative Law and the Moot Court Advocacy Award. After law school, she served as a law clerk to The Honorable Henry A. Politz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and was a litigator at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP.
In 2009, Ms. Mulligan was appointed by Mayor Bloomberg to serve as a commissioner on the Civilian Complaint Review Board. Ms. Mulligan is a board member of the Legal Action Center and is a member of the New York State Bar Association's Committee on White Collar Criminal Litigation. She also serves on the Criminal Justice Act panel for the Southern District of New York representing indigent defendants in federal criminal proceedings. Ms. Mulligan is a member of the New York City Bar and the American Bar Association.
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