Belinda Vega

Counsel

Belinda M. Vega is a counsel in O’Melveny’s Los Angeles office and a member of the White Collar Defense and Corporate Investigations, Antitrust and Competition, and Electronic Discovery and Document Retention Practices. Belinda’s practice consists primarily of white collar and regulatory defense, antitrust litigation, and complex commercial civil litigation.

Illustrative Professional Experience

• A major computer services development company in federal litigation arising out of allegations that certain former employees had misappropriated the company’s trade secrets.
• A major international company in the business of wire transferring money in allegations involving intentional interference, unfair business practices, and Lanham Act violations.
• Publicly traded companies, corporate officers and employees in federal grand jury and SEC criminal investigations for alleged violations of federal securities law, and in parallel civil federal class actions and state derivative suits.
• Individuals and companies in criminal fraud investigations and regulatory proceedings relating to mail fraud, bank fraud, real estate fraud and money laundering.
• A President and CEO of an entertainment company in a criminal investigation relating to federal and state RICO charges.
• Companies in civil cases and criminal investigations regarding allegations of failure to report hazardous substance releases and failure to comply with petroleum storage requirements.
• An educational institution in trial defending against patent inventorship claims.
• A leading Spanish-language media company in an internal investigation relating to potential employment litigation issues.
• A major insurance company in a federal antitrust case arising out of an alleged conspiracy by insurance companies and brokers.
• A leading semiconductor manufacturing company in a federal antitrust case arising out patent infringement and monopoly claims.
• A leading semiconductor manufacturing company in a state antitrust case arising out of price-fixing allegations.
• A major oil exploration and production company in agency appeal proceedings and proceedings before the Alaska Superior and Supreme Courts with respect to oil and gas leases in the State of Alaska.
  

Professional Activities

Member, American Bar Association: Antitrust Litigation Committee, Young Lawyer Leadership Program, and the Woman Advocate Committee; Los Angeles County Bar Association: Antitrust and Unfair Business Practices Litigation Section; Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
Adjunct Professor, White Collar Crime, Southwestern Law School (Spring 2009)
Author, Designing and Implementing an Effective Corporate Compliance Program, ABA Criminal Litigation Newsletter, Spring 2007
Commissioner, City of Los Angeles, Rent Adjustment Commission for the Los Angeles Housing Development Department
Testimony, before California Senate Judiciary Committee with respect to proposed antitrust bill
Speaker, “Discovery: Planning, Strategy and Dealing with Abusive Discovery Tactics,” Continuing Bar of Education Program (2008); (scheduled to speak July and August 2009); “E-Discovery: An A-Z Workshop,” West Legalworks E-Discovery Conference (2008) “Current Trends in Diversity at a Large Law Firm,” Boalt Hall (2006), Columbia Law School (2007) ; “Evaluating Practice Options: An Insider’s View of Practice Worlds,” ABA Litigation Section’s Annual Conference (2006)
Language, Spanish