Mark A. Racanelli is partner in O’Melveny’s New York office and a member of the White Collar Defense and Corporate Investigations Practice. Mark has extensive experience counseling clients in and litigating white collar, regulatory, criminal and civil antitrust and a wide-range of general commercial matters.

Before joining O'Melveny, Mark served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York for five years. During that time, Mark prosecuted a variety of criminal cases—including fraud, money laundering and RICO cases—handled complex grand jury investigations and tried numerous cases to verdict, including trials involving RICO and money laundering charges. In 2005, Mark was an Acting Chief of the General Crimes Unit at the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Mark has represented individuals, companies and other entities in various criminal and regulatory enforcement matters, including investigations handled by the United States Attorney's Offices in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Southern District of California, the United States Department of Justice, the New York State Attorney General's Office, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, the SEC and the NASD. Mark has also conducted corporate internal investigations relating to criminal and regulatory issues.

Mark also has experience as an appointed monitor of businesses in connection with the resolution of criminal and regulatory investigations.

His practice has also included many antitrust litigation and counseling matters, including monopolization, price-fixing, market allocation, dealer termination, unfair trade practices, predatory pricing and retail price maintenance cases. Mark has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in civil antitrust litigation, including defendants in large, multi-district class actions.

Mark also has litigated and conducted investigations concerning theft of trade secrets and misappropriation of confidential competitive information. He has litigated the issuance of temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions preventing the disclosure of trade secret information, and has conducted internal investigations to help companies defend claims of misappropriation.

Mark’s extensive trial experience at O’Melveny includes:

Representing a former employee of a major financial institution in a three-week criminal trial in 2012 in the Southern District of New York against the Department of Justice, in connection with DOJ’s investigation of the municipal bond derivative instruments industry; and
Representing a national concert promoter in a six-week civil trial in 2013 against Suffolk County in the Eastern District of New York, prosecuting federal civil rights claims for an unconstitutional denial of a mass gathering permit.


Mark also has appellate litigation experience before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.