Garima Malhotra

Garima Malhotra, a zealous advocate for her clients, focuses her practice on complex civil and criminal matters, representing institutions and individuals in government investigations, white-collar litigation, international commercial litigation, and financial issues.

Garima has represented clients in investigations conducted by numerous regulators, including the U.S. Department of Justice, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Attorney's Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigations, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, as well as international financial regulators such as the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority. She also defends global banks in major class action litigations involving complex financial products and has handled commercial contractual disputes on behalf of multinational institutions. In addition to her case-specific work, Garima is a trusted advisor to her clients, providing advice on various commercial and legal issues including ever-changing state and federal regulations.

Garima also has a passion for public service and is actively involved in many of the firm's pro bono activities. She has successfully represented clients seeking asylum from persecution and is currently serving as counsel to death row inmates in the Louisiana state prison challenging the constitutionality of solitary confinement policies.

While in law school, Garima served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Gerald Bruce Lee of the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia and worked as a law clerk for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. She was also the associate managing editor of the Catholic University Law Review.

Prior to attending law school, Garima was a research associate at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, where she was a policy advocate on voting rights and criminal justice issues.