Mia N. Gonzalez

Mia N. Gonzalez is a member of the White Collar Defense and Corporate Investigations practice group. She represents individuals and companies in complex, high-stakes corporate internal investigations, and criminal and regulatory matters, including investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice, the New York Attorney General, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and various self-regulatory organizations. In addition, she represents clients in in a variety of antitrust matters and has an active pro bono practice.

Mia’s illustrative professional experience includes the following: 

White Collar

• Represents a global financial institution in responding to a variety of investigations conducted by the US government, the New York Attorney General’s Office, and industry regulators related to aspects of the client’s broker-dealer business. 
• Represents a major global automotive company in an investigation by the US Department of Justice.
• Represented a major global automotive company in an investigation by the US Department of Justice regarding alleged false statements to the company’s primary regulator. The government closed its three-year investigation with no adverse findings against the company and no penalty.
• Represented a global technology company in connection with a wide-scale bribery investigation by the US Department of Justice across a broad range of jurisdictions. The government closed its multi-year investigation with no adverse findings against the company and no penalty.
• Represented a global technology company in connection with a fraud investigation conducted by the US Department of Justice.
• Represented a public company’s Audit Committee and advised the Board of Directors in an internal investigation concerning potential insider trading.
• Represented a global financial institution in connection with a multi-year FCPA investigation conducted by the SEC and Federal Reserve involving the firm’s hiring practices abroad.  

Antitrust

• Represents US Airways, now part of American Airlines Group Inc., in its antitrust litigation against Sabre, a global distribution services company. Mia was part of the O’Melveny trial teams that won a jury verdict for US Airways in December 2016 (following an eight-week trial) and a jury verdict for US Airways in May 2022 (following a three-week trial). US Airways, Inc., for American Airlines, Inc. as Successor and Real Party in Interest v. Sabre Holdings Corp., et al., No. 1:11-cv-02725-LGS-JLC.
• Represents an airline in seeking DOJ merger clearance.
• Represents Google in a series of antitrust cases pending in the Northern District of California.  Plaintiffs – including dozens of state attorneys general – allege that certain aspects of Google Play and Google Play Billing are anticompetitive. In re: Google Play Store Antitrust Litigation, No. 3:21-md-02981-JD; Epic Games, Inc. v. Google LLC, No. 3:20-cv-05671-JD; In re Google Play Consumer Antitrust Litigation, No. 3:20-cv-05761-JD; In re Google Play Developer Antitrust Litigation, No. 3:20-cv-05792-JD; State of Utah et al. v. Google LLC et al., No. 3:21-cv-05227-JD; App Match Group, LLC v. Google LLC, et al., 3:22-cv-02746-JD. 
• Represented US Airways in its merger with American Airlines. 
• Represented a leading personal computer and software designer and manufacturer in an antitrust lawsuit alleging price fixing brought by the DOJ, state attorneys general, and private plaintiffs.  The case involved a three-week bench trial.