Eddie A. Jauregui

Eddie A. Jauregui is a litigation attorney in Holland & Knight's Los Angeles office and co-chair of the firm's White Collar Defense and Investigations Team. A former federal prosecutor, Mr. Jauregui focuses his practice on government and internal investigations, corporate compliance and training, white collar criminal defense and complex business disputes. Mr. Jauregui represents business organizations, healthcare institutions, financial institutions and senior corporate officers and directors in high-stakes matters pursued by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), state attorneys general and other prosecutorial and enforcement agencies. His practice spans across various subject areas, including Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) matters, anti-money laundering and Bank Secrecy Act (AML/BSA) matters, False Claims Act (FCA) matters, civil and criminal environmental matters, healthcare fraud and government contract fraud, among others.

Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Jauregui served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) in Los Angeles, where he prosecuted high-profile fraud, extortion and public corruption cases. As an AUSA, Mr. Jauregui investigated and prosecuted complex financial crimes, including money laundering, bank and wire fraud, investment advisor fraud, mortgage fraud, defense procurement fraud, import/export crimes and tax crimes. In addition, Mr. Jauregui handled parallel investigations involving the SEC and the DOJ's Civil Fraud Division, and served for several years as the U.S. Attorney's Office's procurement fraud coordinator.

An accomplished trial lawyer, Mr. Jauregui was part of the trial team that tried and convicted the former Los Angeles County Sheriff and Undersheriff for obstruction of justice in connection with a federal civil rights investigation of the Los Angeles County jails. For his role in these landmark prosecutions, Mr. Jauregui received a California Lawyer of the Year Award in 2018 and a special recognition from the Los Angeles County Bar Association Criminal Justice Section. He also served as a deputy chief in the General Crimes Section, where he supervised and trained federal prosecutors. As an AUSA, Mr. Jauregui handled hundreds of criminal matters, tried numerous jury trials and briefed and argued multiple cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

A recognized leader in the legal community, Mr. Jauregui currently serves as the co-chair of the Southern California American Bar Association (ABA) White Collar Crime Committee, executive committee member of the California Lawyers Association Criminal Law Section and trustee of the Mexican American Bar Foundation. He has twice served as a faculty member of the firm's John Hogan Trial Academy and trained lawyers as part of the California Lawyers Association's Annual Trial Skills Seminar. He has also served as an adjunct instructor at the University of Southern California (USC) Gould School of Law.

Deeply committed to advancing diversity in the legal profession, Mr. Jauregui has led diversity, recruiting and mentoring efforts for more than a decade in both private practice and government service. He currently serves as national co-chair of the firm's Hispanic Affinity Group and chair of the firm's Los Angeles Diversity Committee. He was previously named a Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Fellow, a Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA) Rising Star, and one of the Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40 by the LGBT Bar Association.

Mr. Jauregui graduated from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. While in law school, Mr. Jauregui served as an extern to then-Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Upon graduation, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jan E. DuBois of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He is admitted to the bar in California and New York.