LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles Times named Covington partner Aaron Lewis to its inaugural Aerospace & Defense Visionaries list, which highlights leading executives, engineers, and strategic advisors fueling Southern California's hard tech industry and driving breakthroughs in national security.
Based in Covington's Los Angeles office, Aaron serves as co-chair of the firm's award-winning White Collar Defense and Investigations practice group (Global Investigations Review, Law360, National Law Journal). General counsel and boards of directors call on Aaron to conduct their most sensitive internal investigations and to defend their businesses and senior executives in their most serious enforcement matters.
He advises companies and independent board committees facing alleged violations of the False Claims Act, as well as allegations of public corruption, export controls violations, obstruction of justice, and espionage. He has particular experience guiding aerospace and defense companies through Department of Justice investigations and False Claims Act matters, including those involving compliance with Department of Defense contracting and manufacturing requirements.
Aaron returned to Covington in 2015 following six years of service in the Department of Justice, first as Counsel to Attorney General Eric Holder in Washington, and later as an Assistant United States Attorney in Los Angeles, most recently in the National Security Section, where he investigated and prosecuted cases involving thefts of trade secrets, export control violations, and computer network intrusions. An experienced trial and appellate lawyer, Aaron has tried several cases to verdict and argued before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He has consistently been recognized for his work, including by Chambers USA for Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations, and as one of Forbes' America's Top Lawyers and America's Best-In-State Lawyers, the Daily Journal’s Top White Collar Lawyers, and the Los Angeles Business Journal’s Top 100 Lawyers.
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