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Morrison Foerster’s Government Contracts and Public Procurement practice has been highlighted as a market leader in the recently released Chambers USA and The Legal 500 United States 2024 guides. 

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Morrison Foerster’s Government Contracts and Public Procurement practice has been highlighted as a market leader in the recently released Chambers USA and The Legal 500 United States 2024 guides. Both ratings guides ranked the firm in the top-tier, one of only four firms named in the highest band across both directories.Clients told Chambers that the team is “excellent at handling complex and sophisticated work and provides fantastic customer service,” while reporting that the team “provides valuable guidance from a business and commercial perspective.” Meanwhile, clients told The Legal 500 that the team offers “deep subject matter knowledge,” is “connected to federal agencies through professional channels,” and is “able to translate very complicated legal and regulatory issues into business risks and questions.” One client concludes: “They do a fantastic job of balancing commercial and legal considerations into a comprehensive, action-oriented recommendation.”Lawyers in MoFo’s preeminent Government Contracts and Public Procurement Group were also highly recognized:<ul><li>Kevin Mullen was ranked Band 1 by Chambers in both the main Government Contacts category and the specialty “Bid Protests” ranking and was named a Leading Individual by The Legal 500. Clients report: “He knows how to address every kind of issue. He is really thoughtful, clever and a great thinker.”</li><li>Tina Reynolds was highly ranked by Chambers and was also recommended by The Legal 500. Clients report: “Tina has a strong subject matter skill set and a really wide variety of expertise.”</li><li>Alex Ward was highly ranked by Chambers and was also recommended by The Legal 500. Clients report: “Alex is extremely effective in navigating challenging relationships under time pressure.”</li><li>Damien Specht was highly ranked by Chambers and named a Leading Individual by The Legal 500. Clients report: “His advice is always practical and business-oriented, supported by outstanding legal analysis and reasoning.”</li><li>Sandeep Nandivada was recommended by The Legal 500, which reports: “Sandeep has demonstrated considerable mettle in litigation and investigations in the tech and defense spaces.”</li><li>Locke Bell was named an “Up and Coming” partner by Chambers and was also recommended by The Legal 500. Clients report: “He is very good at developing and understanding complex legal theories and coming up with creative solutions for challenging problems.”</li><li>David Churchill was ranked as one of Chambers’ Senior Statespeople and was also recommended by The Legal 500. Clients report: “David calmly and thoroughly assesses extremely challenging situations.”</li><li>Jay DeVecchio was ranked as one of Chambers’ Senior Statespeople and was also recommended by The Legal 500. Clients report: “Jay is a skilled attorney and top notch litigator. He is a seasoned expert.”</li></ul>To view the complete list of Morrison Foerster’s rankings in the 2024 edition of <a href="https://chambers.com/law-firm/morrison-foerster-usa-5:7854" target="_blank">Chambers USA</a> and <a href="https://www.mofo.com/resources/news/240612-morrison-foerster-recognized-in-legal-500-us" target="_blank">The Legal 500 United States</a>, please visit each of the publication’s respective websites.

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Kevin is former Co-chair of Morrison Foerster’s Government Contracts & Public Procurement practice. Kevin has broad experience in numerous facets of government contracts matters including agency procurements, subcontracting, teaming and joint venture relationships, contract performance issues, intellectual property, compliance matters, due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, and procurement fraud matters. He represents clients in the preparation and litigation of contract adjustment claims and terminations for both government contracts and construction projects. Over the course of his 35-year career, Kevin has handled more than 300 bid protest cases, representing both protesters and contract awardees before the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, federal district courts, and state protest forums.Kevin is active in the Public Contract Law Section of the American Bar Association, where he has served as a Co-Chair of the Contract Claims and Disputes Resolution Committee and the Bid Protest Committee, and a Vice-Chair of the Acquisition Reform and Emerging Issues Committee, as well as a member of the Section’s Council and its Interim Membership Director. He also served on the Board of Governors of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims Bar Association.Kevin has been recognized by Chambers & Partners USA and Legal 500 US as one of the leading lawyers nationwide in the area of Government Contracts and has been named a “Top Washington Lawyer” in Government Contracts Law by Washingtonian magazine. Since 2010, Chambers & Partners USA has placed Kevin on the short list of National Tier One Government Contracts lawyers and, since 2020, Chambers has included him in its Bid Protest Spotlight table. He was named to the BTI Consulting Group’s “Client Service All-Stars 2016” list, a registry of 354 of the legal profession’s client service elite.Kevin received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1988 and his B.A. from the University of Virginia in 1984. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and the state of Georgia, and before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Fourth Circuit, and the United States Court of Federal Claims.

Kevin P. Mullen

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Tina is Co-chair of Morrison Foerster’s Government Contracts & Public Procurement practice. She represents a wide variety of government contractors including information technology, defense, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical companies, with a focus on general contract counseling and compliance, particularly concerning intellectual property, and cybersecurity matters and federal grant funding.Tina counsels contractors on compliance with federal, state and local acquisition and ethics regulations and with the evolving myriad of requirements pertaining to data security and cybersecurity. She has been involved with numerous internal investigations and compliance reviews, and with mandatory and voluntary disclosures to agencies, and litigation of False Claims Act matters.Tina routinely advises clients concerning:<ul><li>Prime-subcontractor relationships</li><li>Sources of supply and country of origin requirements</li><li>Price reductions and price reporting issues</li><li>Organizational conflicts of interest</li><li>Safeguarding of intellectual property and other proprietary interests</li><li>Licensing and data rights issues</li><li>Handling of classified materials and controlled unclassified information</li><li>Agency suspension and debarment proceedings</li></ul>She also assists clients with due diligence and other activities related to the acquisition of government contracting concerns, and with the drafting and negotiation of teaming agreements, subcontracts, licensing agreements, and cooperative research and development agreements. She also assists clients applying for federal grants (including SBIR and STTR agreements), and those who seek to obtain other transactional authority agreements, as well as those competing for state and local government work.Tina’s litigation experience includes government contracts claims litigation in federal courts and before boards of contract appeals, bid protests before the Government Accountability Office and the Court of Federal Claims, and complex disputes in federal courts, including civil fraud and False Claims Act litigation and reverse Freedom of Information Act litigation.Prior to joining Morrison Foerster, Tina worked at another large national firm and as a trial attorney in the Office of the General Counsel of the Navy, Navy Litigation Office.<h4>Representative Experience</h4><ul><li>Negotiation of largest CHIPS Act federal funding agreement between multinational semiconductor corporation and U.S. Department of Commerce.</li><li>Negotiated prime contract and major subcontracts related to the Department of Energy’s next generation supercomputer program, including extensive IP rights negotiations and negotiation of associated patent rights waivers.</li><li>Negotiated series of other transaction authority agreements with DARPA and associated subcontracts with more than a dozen research universities on behalf of a firm biotech client, including complex IP rights allocations and material transfer agreements.</li><li>Assist clients with FedRAMP authorization process and with development of license agreements for software products sold to federal, state and local government agencies.</li><li>Cyber incident response counseling to some of the largest companies and organizations impacted by security incidents.</li><li>Advises clients on Bayh-Dole reporting of inventions and IP strategies for contracts and grants.</li><li>Conducts due diligence for major government contract mergers and acquisitions.</li></ul>

Tina D. Reynolds

<div style="margin-bottom: 15px;" class="videoWrapper"><iframe class="sticky-video" title="Meet Alex Ward, Government Contracts Practice Co-Chair" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/TkliwdSlTaQ?rel=0" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="1" title="iframe"></iframe></div>J. Alex Ward is co-chair of Morrison Foerster’s Government Contracts and Public Procurement group. His practice covers a full range of government contracts matters, including investigations, bid protests, claims, general litigation, corporate transactions, and counseling. Alex strives in all matters is to provide his clients the highest level of efficient and effective representation.Alex represents contractors in internal and external investigations, disclosures to the government, and qui tam litigation, with great success in reducing or eliminating his clients’ exposure through active engagement with the government. His work in this area includes obtaining numerous declinations and dismissals of False Claims Act cases in their earliest stages, sparing his clients the cost, risk, and exposure of litigation.He has also served as lead counsel in dozens of bid protests involving military and civilian agency procurements of a wide range of products and services, including all manner of pre- and post-award protests in the GAO, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and state tribunals, as well as appeals to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and size protest appeals before the SBA’s Office of Hearings and Appeals.Alex handles all aspects of the claims process, from the initial assessment and drafting of requests for equitable adjustment through litigation in the Boards of Contract Appeals and the Court of Federal Claims. Alex’s practice also covers the full gamut of other controversies confronting government contractors, including prime-sub, teaming partner, employer-employee, competitor, and indemnification disputes. His litigation work also includes a wide variety of pro bono engagements, in which he has represented both individual and institutional clients in matters ranging from immigration and criminal defense to sustainable procurement and protection of the environment.Prior to joining the firm, Alex served in the U.S. Army as a commissioned officer and an Assistant to the General Counsel of the Army responsible for civil works and international matters, and as a clerk for judges on the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Armed Forces and the D.C. Circuit. He is a member of the Boards of the Morrison & Foerster Foundation and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and of Law360’s Government Contracts Editorial Board.

J. Alex Ward

Damien is a partner in the firm’s Government Contracts & Public Procurement practice. Damien represents clients in all facets of government contracts transactions, as well as regulatory counseling, subcontract and teaming agreement negotiations, contract disputes, size protests, and protests. Damien has been recognized as a leading Government Contracts lawyer by various publications. Chambers USA explains that he “is a strong choice for advising government contractors on M&A transactions,” with sources saying that he has “excellent knowledge of government contracts M&A” and that “his biggest strength is that he is very commercial, thinking about both the legal and business side of things.” National Law Journal named him a Trailblazer and found that federal lawmakers turn to him when they “need expert advice about small-business policy.”Damien has played a significant role in more than 200 government contracts transactions, representing industry leaders, private-equity firms and entrepreneurs. He also regularly serves as lead counsel in high-stakes litigation, including pre- and post-award protests at the GAO, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and state tribunals, as well as in size protests and appeals.The co-editor of books on small business litigation and government contracts transactions, Damien was a founding member of the ABA Public Contract Law Section Mergers and Acquisitions Committee and serves in the leadership of the American Bar Association Small Business & Other Socioeconomic Programs Committee. Damien has testified about procurement issues before the United States House of Representatives.<h4>GAO PUBLISHED DECISIONS</h4><ul><li>Dawson Solutions, LLC, B-418587, B-418587.2, Jun. 19, 2020, 2020 CPD ¶ 216</li><li>LATA-Atkins Technical Services, LLC, B-418602,B-418602.4, Jun. 10, 2020, 2020 WL 3265159</li><li>Inquiries, Inc., B-418486, B-418486.2, B-418486.3, May 27, 2020, 2020 WL 3034820</li><li>BEAT, LLC, B-418235, B-418235.2, Jan.30, 2020, 2020 CPD ¶ 64</li><li>Battelle Memorial Institute, B-416263.5, Jan. 23, 2020, 2020 WL 508726</li><li>ASRC Federal Data Network Technologies, LLC, B-418028; B-418028.2, Dec. 26, 2019, 2019 WL 7370424</li><li>IPKeys Technologies, LLC, B-416873.2, B-416873.3, Apr. 5, 2019, 2019 CPD ¶138</li><li>ActioNet, Inc., B-416557.4, February 27, 2019, 2019 CPD ¶ 97</li><li>Advanced Software Systems, Inc., B-414892.2, B-414892.3, B-414892.4, B-414892.5, B-414892.6, Jan. 7, 2019, 2019 CPD ¶ 51</li><li>Chenega Healthcare Services, LLC, B-416158, Jun. 4, 2018, 2018 CPD ¶ 200</li><li>Federal Acquisition Services Alliant JV, LLC, B-415406.2, B-415406.3, April 11, 2018, 2018 CPD ¶ 139</li><li>VT Halter Marine, Inc., B-415510.2, B-415510.3, B-415510.4, Jan. 24, 2018, 2018 CPD ¶ 62</li><li>OBXtek, Inc., B-415258, Dec. 12, 2017, 2017 CPD ¶ 381</li><li>Katmai Health Services, LLC, B-413816.3, Jul. 12, 2017, 2017 CPD¶ 220</li><li>Verdi Consulting, Inc., B-414103.2, B-414103.3, B-414103.4, Apr. 26, 2017, 2017 CPD ¶ 136</li><li>Threat Management Group, LLC, B-413729, Dec. 21, 2016, 2017 CPD ¶ 9</li><li>Analytic Strategies LLC; Gemini Industries, Inc.; B-413758.2, B-413758.3, Nov. 28, 2016, 2016 CPD ¶ 340</li><li>Kollsman, Inc., B-413485, B-413485.2, B-413485.3, Nov. 8, 2016, 2016 CPD ¶ 326</li><li>The Boeing Company, B-412441, Feb. 16, 2016, 2016 CPD ¶ 269</li><li>Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., B-411359; B-411359.2, Jun. 16, 2015, 2015 CPD¶ 219</li><li>IAP World Services, Inc.; EMCOR Government Services, B-407917.2, B-407917.3, B-407917.4, B-407917.5, B-407917.6, B-407917.7, 2013 CPD ¶ 171</li><li>AT&T Government Solutions, Inc. , B-406926, B-406926.2, B-406926.3, B-406926.4, B-406926.5, B-406926.6, 2013 CPD ¶ 88</li><li>Weibel Equipment, Inc., B-406888, B-406888.2, 2012 CPD ¶ 279</li><li>O'Gara Training and Services, LLC, B-404901.2, 2011 CPD ¶ 171</li><li>Harrington, Moran, Barksdale, Inc., B-401934.2, B-401934.3, 2010 CPD ¶ 231</li><li>CIGNA Government Services, LLC, B-401068.4, B-401068.5, 2010 CPD ¶ 230</li><li>ITT Corporation, Systems Division, B-310102.6, B-310102.7, B-310102.8, B-310102.9, 2010 CPD ¶ 12</li><li>FedSys, Inc., B-401453, 2009 CPD ¶ 181</li><li>Academy Facilities Management, B-401094.3, 2009 CPD ¶ 139</li><li>Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc., B-400771; B-400771.2, 2009 CPD ¶ 49</li><li>TrailBlazer Health Enterprises, LLC, B-310801.6, B-310801.7, B-310801.10, 2013 CPD ¶ 204</li><li>Evans Security Solutions, Inc. , B-311035, 2008 CPD ¶ 58</li><li>DRS C3 Systems, LLC, B-310825; B-310825.2, 2008 CPD ¶ 103 </li></ul><h4>COFC PUBLISHED DECISIONS</h4><ul><li>HomeSource Real Estate Asset Servs. v. United States, No. 10-416 C, 94 Fed. Cl. 466 (Fed. Cl. 2010)</li><li>ACTA, LLC v. United States, No. 20-356C</li><li>Chenega Healthcare Servs., LLC v. United States, No. 18-861C, 141 Fed. Cl. 254 (Fed. Cl. 2019)</li><li>Trans Digital Techs., LLC v. United States, No. 18-121C, 138 Fed. Cl. 34 (Fed. Cl. 2018)</li><li>Precise Sys. v. United States, No. 14-1174C, 122 Fed. Cl. 263 (Fed. Cl. 2015)</li><li>Palladian Partners, Inc. v. United States, No. 14-317C, 119 Fed. Cl. 417 (Fed. Cl. 2014)</li><li>Pyramid Real Estate Servs., LLC v. United States, No. 10-599 C, 95 Fed. Cl. 613 (Fed. Cl. 2010)</li><li>Acad. Facilities Mgmt. v. United States, No. 09-302C, 87 Fed. Cl. 441 (Fed. Cl. 2009)</li><li>L-3 Communs. EOTech, Inc. v. United States, No. 08-515 C, 83 Fed. Cl. 643 (Fed. Cl. 2008)</li></ul>

Damien C. Specht

Sandeep Nandivada is a partner in the Litigation Department of Morrison & Foerster’s Washington, D.C. office. Sandeep’s practice focuses on civil litigation, complex internal investigations, and government contracts compliance, including matters related to cybersecurity and data breaches.Sandeep’s civil litigation practice focuses on bid protests, contract claims, subcontract disputes, and False Claims Act matters. He has litigated numerous protests before the Government Accountability Office, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and the Small Business Administration Office of Hearings and Appeals across an array of subject matters—including some of the largest and most-high profile public procurements. Sandeep also has supported clients on significant claims, requests for equitable adjustments, and subcontract disputes involving a variety of performance or cost related issues.In addition, Sandeep has extensive experience conducting investigations with False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Act, Procurement Integrity Act, and suspension and debarment implications. He has advised clients regarding procurement fraud, anti-corruption, procurement integrity, defective pricing, and cybersecurity, and has assisted clients with voluntary and mandatory disclosures under the FAR. Sandeep also was seconded to Northrop Grumman as Investigations Counsel.Sandeep also regularly advises clients on FAR and DFARS compliance issues, particularly issues related to cybersecurity, commercial item contracting, Buy American Act and Trade Agreements Act compliance, and organizational conflicts of interest. He also works with clients to evaluate and develop ethics and compliance programs.Sandeep has been named a “Rising Star” in 2020 by Law360 and National Law Journal, as well as DCA Live in 2018. He also has been named a Recommended Lawyer by The Legal 500 and as “One to Watch” by Best Lawyers. He is active in the American Bar Association’s Public Contract Law Section, currently serving as Vice-Chair on both the Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Emerging Technology Committee and the Procurement Fraud and False Claims Committee.Sandeep graduated With Honors from the George Washington University Law School, where he was Editor-In-Chief of The George Washington Journal of Energy and Environmental Law, Vice President of Internal Competitions for the Moot Court Board, a legal writing fellow, and a member of the Alternative Disputes Resolution Board. He received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University with Distinction in all Subjects in History.Sandeep is admitted to practice in Virginia, the District of Columbia, and before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.<h4>Representative Experience</h4><h5>Litigation</h5><ul><li>Successfully protested award of $45B Department of Energy contract for nuclear waste cleanup at the Hanford site in Washington State on behalf of Hanford Tank Disposition Alliance, LLC.</li></ul><ul><li>Successfully protested award of $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (“JEDI”) Contract on behalf of Amazon Web Services, Inc. </li><li>Successfully resolved notice of potential debarment for Department of Defense contractor without any administrative penalties or sanctions.</li><li>Successfully defended award of LOGCAP V contract and associated task orders to Vectrus Systems Corporation.</li><li>Successfully protested $87.4 million contract award based on agency’s failure to identify organizational conflicts of interest for the awardee.</li><li>Successfully defended award of IDIQ contract for Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation procurement.</li><li>Successfully resolved False Claims Act and Procurement Integrity Act allegations, without litigation, on behalf of government contractor.</li><li>Represented large defense contractor in response to agency show cause letter and in certified claim against agency, and successfully negotiated favorable settlement.</li></ul><h5>Investigations</h5><ul><li>Conducted internal investigations for multiple clients concerning data breaches, including counseling such clients on remediation and reporting obligations.</li><li>Conducted internal investigation regarding major defense contractor’s accounting and business systems practices, including representing client’s interests with the Defense Contract Audit Agency and advising client executives regarding proposed changes and remedial actions.</li><li>Conducted internal investigation concerning allegations of fraudulent billing, including submission of mandatory and supplemental disclosures to agency inspectors general.</li><li>Conducted internal investigation for major defense contractor responding to subpoena from federal agency seeking commercial cost data, including successfully negotiating the scope of the subpoena.</li><li>Conducted internal investigation regarding major defense contractor’s compliance with export control laws and regulations.</li><li>Conducted internal investigation for major defense contractor regarding contract performance issues.</li><li>Conducted internal investigation for major defense contractor concerning Procurement Integrity Act compliance.</li><li>Conducted Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation for multinational corporation.</li></ul><h5>Compliance</h5><ul><li>Conducted multiple multi-national government contracts compliance review and associated risk assessment for a Global Fortune 500 company, including recommending process improvements and policy changes.</li><li>Conducted multinational compliance review regarding conflicts of interest and anti-kickback policies.</li><li>Counseled major government contractor regarding cybersecurity disclosure obligations.</li><li>Counseled clients regarding compliance with applicable Pay-to-Play, Lobbying, and Revolving Door restrictions.</li></ul>

Sandeep Nandivada

Locke Bell is a partner in the firm’s Government Contracts & Public Procurement practice.Locke is a recognized authority on intellectual property in government contracting, which he teaches as an adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School. Locke is a trusted counselor, litigator, and strategic partner to technology-driven clients as they engage with the U.S. government and others in the complex landscape of public procurement, grants, and government-sponsored initiatives, including nontraditional acquisition methods such as other transaction agreements (OTs or OTAs), cooperative research and development agreements (CRADAs), and the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. He represents clients across all industries, including aerospace and defense, commercial software and information technology, and healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology, on issues that arise throughout the full lifecycle of engagement with federal, state, and local governments.As a litigator, Locke represents clients in data rights challenges and claims related to patent and copyright infringement, trade secrets misappropriation, and reverse-FOIA disputes, as well as complex contract claims, bid protest, and civil fraud and qui tam actions under the False Claims Act. Locke also regularly advises clients on government contracting issues in transactional matters, having guided large and small businesses, private equity firms, and entrepreneurs through more than a hundred mergers and acquisitions. He is a skilled negotiator of commercial and noncommercial licensing agreements, contracts and subcontracts, and teaming agreements, and he is intimately familiar with selling commercial software and other products through the GSA Federal Supply Schedules and other government-wide acquisition vehicles, such as NASA SEWP and DoD ESI, having acted in an in-house capacity on secondment to a large, publicly traded commercial software company.Locke has been recognized as a Rising Star by Law360 and the National Law Journal. Locke is also involved in the American Bar Association, where he formerly served as co-chair for the Intellectual Property Committee of the Section of Public Contract Law.Locke holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Virginia and previously worked at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a patent examiner, specializing in mechanical arts. He earned his J.D. with honors from the George Washington University Law School, where he received the Patricia A. Tobin Government Contracts Award for excellence in government contracts law. Locke also clerked for Judge Mary Ellen Coster Williams at the Court of Federal Claims.

Locke Bell

Dave is a former Co-Chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Government Contracts and Public Procurement practice. His practice includes litigation of disputes involving the award, performance, and termination of federal contract disputes before the Court of Federal Claims, the agency boards of contract appeals, and the Government Accountability Office. He has an active counseling practice in contract award-related matters and on issues arising during performance of government contracts and subcontracts. He is also frequently called upon to conduct internal company investigations in connection with government inquiries and/or mandatory disclosures of potential fraud.Every year since 2005, Chambers & Partners USA has named Dave one of the country’s leading lawyers in Government Contracts Law. In 2009, he was recognized by Ethisphere magazine on its list of “Attorneys Who Matter” in the Government Contracting category. He was also named one of “Washington’s Top Lawyers” by Washingtonian magazine. Dave is AV Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell’s highest peer recognition for ethical standards and legal ability.Dave has served as chair of the Public Contract Law Section of the American Bar Association and president of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims Bar Association. In addition to his legal service, Dave serves as chair of the Governing Council of The Wilderness Society.