Vikas Khanna is an accomplished trial attorney and litigator. He serves as Chair of the Sills Cummis White Collar Practice Group and focuses on white collar defense and internal investigations. Mr. Khanna counsels individuals, small businesses, and corporations facing complex enforcement investigations conducted by federal and state authorities, including the U.S. Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, state attorneys general, and district attorney’s offices. He has deep experience in handling these matters both in the public and private sectors.
As the Acting United States Attorney and First Assistant United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, the Office’s first and second highest positions, Mr. Khanna supervised over 150 Assistant United States Attorneys and was responsible for managing every aspect of the Office, including all criminal, civil, civil rights, and appeals matters. At the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Mr. Khanna previously served as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, supervising the Health Care and Government Fraud, Opioid, and Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Units; Deputy Chief of the Health Care and Government Fraud Unit; and a line Assistant United States Attorney. Mr. Khanna handled some of the Office’s most high-profile and significant trials and investigations. He successfully prosecuted, tried, and supervised cases against individuals and corporations relating to health care fraud, wire fraud, honest services fraud, bribery, extortion, public corruption, money laundering, cybercrime, RICO, the Anti-Kickback Statute, the False Claims Act, the Bank Secrecy Act, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
As a private attorney and former partner at a major law firm in New York, Mr. Khanna has handled several white collar matters, including those related to health care fraud, financial fraud, securities fraud, and hacking. Mr. Khanna has successfully convinced authorities not to bring charges against clients. He has also conducted multiple internal investigations for large companies.
Mr. Khanna has spoken at various conferences and panels addressing the DOJ’s white collar enforcement policies and priorities, internal investigations, the Anti-Kickback Statute, parallel proceedings, corporate compliance, the False Claims Act, and opioid investigations and enforcement. He has taught a class on health care fraud at the Seton Hall Law School Health Care Compliance Program. He also serves on the District of New Jersey’s Lawyers’ Advisory Committee.
Mr. Khanna began his legal career as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Mark Wolf, when he was Chief U.S. District Court Judge in the District of Massachusetts.