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James Gatta
Position
Partner
Career
James Gatta is a partner in Goodwin’s Government Investigations and Enforcement and White Collar Defense practices and co-chair of the firm’s Healthcare practice. His practice focuses on representing U.S. and multinational companies and individuals with respect to government and internal corporate investigations, white collar criminal defense, regulatory compliance and related civil litigation, and complex commercial litigation.
Mr. Gatta is ranked by Chambers USA among the leading white collar defense and government investigations attorneys in New York, and as someone who “brings enormous credibility with the US government, and is an expert in helping clients navigate complex investigations.” Mr. Gatta is also recommended by The Legal 500 US in corporate investigations and white collar criminal defense.
Before joining the firm, Mr. Gatta served as the Chief of the Criminal Division at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York (EDNY). In that role, Mr. Gatta oversaw all of the EDNY’s criminal investigations and prosecutions, including some of the nation’s most significant corporate, securities and healthcare fraud, public corruption, foreign bribery, cybercrime, sanctions and export enforcement, international terrorism and organized and violent crimes cases. Mr. Gatta served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the EDNY for over a decade, where he held a number of leadership positions and handled a range of cases. As Chief of the EDNY’s Public Integrity Section, Mr. Gatta led a team of experienced federal prosecutors in investigations, prosecutions and trials involving corruption and white collar offenses, including those involving elected and appointed government officials, such as bribery and embezzlement as well as financial, honest services, campaign finance and tax fraud. Among other cases, he managed and led investigations that resulted in the convictions of New York State legislators and a sitting U.S. congressman.
Education
JD, 2002, Fordham University School of Law / BA, 1998, Fordham College (summa cum laude)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Healthcare > Service providers
Goodwin’s team is known for its ‘excellent work‘ and its provision of ‘white glove service‘ when advising on financings, emerging company IPOs, and compliance within the healthcare sector. ‘True consigliere‘ David Cappillo co-heads the practice from Massachusetts, alongside Chris Wilson. Cappillo maintains a focus on technology and emerging healthcare and telehealth companies, while Wilson routinely advises private equity sponsors on healthcare transactions and general corporate issues. Based in New York, practice co-head James Gatta utilizes his experience in white-collar crime defense and government investigations to advise private equity firms on DOJ FCA, and SEC investigations into healthcare and telehealth company activity. Also working out of the New York office, Delphine O’Rourke is a women’s health specialist who often provides strategic advice on patient access, reproductive rights, and remote patient monitoring.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Industry focus > Education
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- International Trade > CFIUS
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Real estate > Real estate
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Healthcare > Service providers
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)