Rajeev Raghavan

Rajeev helps clients prevent, withstand, and respond to critical risks, including data breaches, ransomware attacks, insider threats, national security concerns, and complex frauds. He also handles investigations, enforcement actions, and regulatory scrutiny that can follow an incident or emerging risk. Rajeev partners with clients on comprehensive risk management strategies, including designing custom incident response plans and playbooks, conducting tabletop exercises, establishing robust cybersecurity protocols, improving compliance programs, and aligning internal governance with evolving industry standards and regulatory requirements. He also leads internal investigations, defends companies and individuals in white-collar and regulatory enforcement matters, and represents clients in complex commercial litigation.

Before joining Crowell, Rajeev served as special counsel to the FBI Director, advising on cutting-edge and high-profile cyber initiatives, artificial intelligence (AI) strategy and AI-enabled risk, and internal security modernization. Rajeev was at the center of the FBI’s efforts to combat cybercrime and national security threats. He supported the Director’s oversight of the FBI’s national security and criminal programs and worked closely with senior officials at the Department of Justice (DOJ), intelligence and law enforcement partners, the White House, and Congress on cybersecurity strategy and policy, AI, federal surveillance authorities, and legislative oversight.

Prior to the FBI, Rajeev served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Maryland, prosecuting sophisticated federal criminal matters, including cybercrime, national security, sanctions, public corruption, fraud, and money laundering. He led complex, often transnational cybercrime matters involving data breaches, dark web markets, account takeovers, ransomware, computer intrusions, and cryptocurrency fraud. Rajeev also served as the district’s Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Coordinator, working closely with law enforcement agencies on cyber investigations and national security matters. For his work as a prosecutor, Rajeev was recognized with the U.S. Attorney’s Office FBI Service Award and by the U.S. Postal Service for fraud-related prosecutions.

Rajeev clerked for the Hon. William J. Martini in the District of New Jersey and worked at international law firms advising companies in DOJ and Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) investigations, focusing on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations, fraud, and compliance matters, as well as civil litigation disputes.