Nicole Healy’s practice at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati focuses on business, securities, and white-collar criminal litigation. She has defended numerous companies and individuals in class actions, shareholder derivative lawsuits, internal investigations, Department of Justice and SEC investigations, contested mergers and acquisitions, and other complex business-related litigation. She also participated in the trial of a human-rights case in which the firm represented the family of a Chilean man killed by the Pinochet regime; the lawsuit resulted in a verdict for the plaintiffs and marked the first time in which a jury found a defendant liable for crimes against humanity.

Prior to joining Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, Ms. Healy was with the U.S. Department of Justice, which she joined in 1991 as part of the Attorney General’s Honors Program. From 1992 to 1998, she was a trial attorney in the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division, where she was responsible for investigating and prosecuting various financial fraud matters, transnational white-collar crime, and violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). She obtained guilty pleas against Arab Finagrain Agri-Business Trading, Inc. and American Eurocopter Corp., both of which resulted in substantial criminal and civil fines and penalties. In addition, she participated in a number of anti-corruption initiatives, and was a member of the U.S. delegation that negotiated the Organization of American States’ Convention against Corruption.

Ms. Healy has participated in numerous symposia and lectured on such topics as the FCPA, the investigation and prosecution of complex transnational financial crimes, and international law enforcement cooperation issues. In 1999 and 2000, she was a faculty member at the Hastings College of Advocacy in San Francisco, where she focused on criminal trial advocacy. She is a member of the International Section of the American Bar Association and the ABA Anti-Money Laundering Task Force.

In 1991, Ms. Healy earned her J.D. from UCLA Law School, where she was articles editor of UCLA Women’s Law Journal. She completed her undergraduate education at the University of California, Davis, earning a B.A. in art studio and a B.S. in environmental design, with high honors.