Bob McGahan represents closely regulated business entities and their executives, employees and directors in banking and financial services, healthcare, government enforcement, internal investigations, white collar criminal defense, and high-exposure civil litigation matters.

As a former federal prosecutor and experienced trial lawyer, Bob also has successfully represented C-suite executives and Fortune 50 companies in some of the most prominent enforcement and litigation matters throughout the country. He has been recognized as one of the “Top 100 Lawyers in California” by the Los Angeles Daily Journal and was a recipient of the Attorney General’s Award for Fraud Prevention, one of the U.S. Department of Justice’s highest recognitions for excellence in service.

Bob was formerly a senior in-house lawyer at two of the world’s largest financial institutions, and led and managed large teams of legal professionals responding to investigations and litigation involving sales practices; mortgage origination, servicing, and securitization; fair lending; the False Claims Act; securities fraud; commercial lending; foreign exchange and derivatives; auto financing; credit card; student lending; intellectual property; and commercial real estate, among others. He has routinely engaged with enforcement and supervisory staff at numerous federal and state agencies, including the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, state attorneys general, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Reserve Board, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of Foreign Assets Control.

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia, 1995
• California, 1998

• United States District Court for the District of Columbia
• United States District Court, Central District of California
• United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan

Education

• Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 1993, magna cum laude; Order of the Coif
• Harvard University, A.M., 1988
• University of California at Berkeley, A.B., 1985, with distinction