Eugene Illovsky focuses his practice on white collar defense, corporate internal investigations, and corporate compliance. He represents major companies, firms, and individuals managing crises and interacting with government investigatory, enforcement, and prosecutorial authorities. His experience spans a diverse range of industries, including semiconductor and chemical manufacturers, common carriers, securities and mutual fund firms, pharmaceutical companies, software developers, energy producers, and telecommunications service providers.
Mr. Illovsky represents clients in both federal and state trial and appellate courts. He has had several jury and bench trials and has argued more than a dozen cases before the U. S. Court of Appeals. He conducts corporate internal investigations in matters involving securities violations, accounting irregularities, stock option backdating, intellectual property theft, export controls, and antitrust issues. He also routinely advises companies on compliance in areas such as antitrust, anti-money laundering, pharmaceutical supply chain and diversion controls, logistics, and export controls. Mr. Illovsky is a member of the firm's E-Discovery Task Force.
Mr. Illovsky currently serves as a Commissioner of the State Bar of California’s Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation (JNE), and was recently appointed to serve as a Settlement Conference Officer on the San Francisco Superior Court’s Mandatory Settlement Conference Panel. He is a member of the Criminal Justice Act Appeals Panel for the Northern District of California, a Master of the American Inns of Court, and a former Visiting Lecturer at the Boalt School of Law at UC Berkeley.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Illovsky served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of California (Sacramento) for six years, where he investigated and prosecuted a wide array of white-collar crimes, including investment frauds, money laundering, political corruption, intellectual property crimes, and tax evasion. For his work as an AUSA on a series of complex insurance fraud prosecutions, he was recognized by Attorney General Janet Reno with the Director’s Award for Superior Performance, and was selected to serve on the DOJ’s Campaign Finance Task Force, which investigated election financing of the 1996 election cycle.
Mr. Illovsky received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as an Editor of the Yale Law Journal, and received his A.B. from Amherst College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Mr. Illovsky has been named to the Northern California Super Lawyers list as one of the top attorneys in Northern California for 2012 - 2014 and the Best Lawyers in America 2013 - 2015. Mr. Illovsky was selected by Global Investigations Review’s independent research as one of the world's leading investigations lawyers and is named in its International Who's Who of Investigations Lawyers & Forensic Experts 2014. He has also been recommended as a leading lawyer by Legal 500 US 2009 and 2014 for white-collar criminal defense. He currently serves on the San Jose Trial Panel under the federal Criminal Justice Act.
