04 Mar 2026
Rajeev Raghavan Joins Crowell & Moring Privacy and Cybersecurity Group
"Crowell & Moring adds Rajeev Raghavan to its Privacy & Cybersecurity Group to advise on cybersecurity, privacy, national security, data breach response, regulatory inquiries and enforcement."
Raghavan is a former Special Counsel to the FBI Director and a federal prosecutor with more than 15 years of experience handling cybercrime, technology, regulatory, and enforcement matters. At the FBI he advised on high-profile cyber initiatives, AI strategy and risk, and internal security modernization, and served as a trusted advisor to the Director and senior leadership on cybersecurity strategy and policy, AI and other transformational technologies, federal surveillance authorities, criminal and national security investigations, and legislative oversight. His practice focuses on cybersecurity, privacy, national security matters, data breach investigations, regulatory inquiries, enforcement actions, congressional investigations, incident response planning and exercises, and related compliance and litigation matters.
Prior to his role at the FBI, Raghavan served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the District of Maryland, where he investigated and prosecuted a wide range of federal criminal matters and led complex, often transnational cybercrime cases involving data breaches, dark web markets, account takeovers, ransomware, computer intrusions, and cryptocurrency fraud. He led the operation to dismantle WT1SHOP, an online marketplace for stolen credentials, and was appointed the district’s Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Coordinator. In that role he also oversaw investigations into sanctions violations, national security matters, public corruption, procurement fraud, healthcare fraud, money laundering, and other financial crimes. His public-sector work earned him the 2021 U.S. Attorney’s Office FBI Service Award and a commendation from the U.S. Postal Service.
Raghavan’s private-sector experience includes positions at Covington & Burling and Linklaters, where he advised clients on Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission investigations and in civil litigation. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Dayton, a master’s degree from the University of Michigan, and a law degree, cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School, and he clerked for the Honorable William J. Martini of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.