Manish Kumar

Manish Kumar specializes in criminal antitrust enforcement and related white-collar matters. Drawing on more than 15 years as a federal prosecutor and senior DOJ official, he guides companies and individuals through high-stakes criminal antitrust investigations, dawn raids, litigation, and cross-border actions, ensuring they stay ahead of evolving enforcement priorities.

Manish’s leadership experience across administrations gives him unique insight into government enforcement strategies and trends. As former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Criminal Enforcement, the highest-ranking career official at the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, Manish supervised all domestic and international criminal antitrust prosecutions brought by more than 100 attorneys from grand jury through appeal. Before this, he served in other leadership roles as Chief and Assistant Chief of the Antitrust Division’s San Francisco Office, where he supervised criminal antitrust, civil antitrust, and white-collar investigations involving the technology industry, multinational enterprises, and government procurement. In addition to serving as an Antitrust Division Trial Attorney for several years, he was a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California, where he prosecuted a range of felony violations.

In these roles, Manish has overseen precedent-setting cases, including the first felony criminal monopolization conviction, the first guilty plea in a labor market investigation, and the first labor market trial conviction. Manish first-chaired multiple jury trials, including a trial resulting in the conviction of a C-suite executive. Manish also played...