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Alicia O’Brien

Partner · King & Spalding

United StatesInvestigations and Enforcement Actions, Crisis ManagementEnglish

About

Former Senior Counsel and Special Assistant to President Biden, Alicia O'Brien specializes in investigations and enforcement actions by Congress, state attorneys general, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and other federal agencies. She has two decades of crisis management and government investigations experience in both the public and private sector, including senior leadership positions in the White House and DOJ. She assists clients in a wide variety of industries in navigating high-stakes, multi-faceted matters, and routinely advises on legal, business, political, and public relations risks in congressional and parallel government investigations. She manages all stages of these matters, including subpoena responses, witness preparation, testimony, and public messaging, and also leads internal investigations and advises on compliance measures and mitigation of reputational risk.

Practice areas

Investigations and Enforcement ActionsCrisis ManagementGovernment InvestigationsCongressional InvestigationsInternal InvestigationsComplianceReputational Risk MitigationDispute ResolutionCorporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal DefenseInternational Trade and National SecurityNational SecurityGovernmentState Attorneys General

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Expertise

Investigations and Enforcement ActionsCrisis ManagementGovernment InvestigationsCongressional InvestigationsInternal InvestigationsComplianceReputational Risk MitigationDispute ResolutionCorporate Investigations and White-Collar Criminal DefenseInternational Trade and National SecurityNational SecurityGovernmentState Attorneys General

Languages

English