Angela M Machala

Practice Areas

Angela is the managing partner of Winston’s Los Angeles office. She represents business entities and individuals in federal grand jury, SEC, and other government investigations. Angela has successfully defended clients charged with or investigated for theft of trade secrets, securities fraud, health care fraud, environmental crimes, FCPA violations, and defense contractor fraud. She has extensive experience in conducting sensitive internal investigations for organizations. In the civil arena, she has represented businesses accused of negligence in hiring, Lanham Act, and civil RICO claims, as well as breach of fiduciary duty, usurpation of corporate opportunity, and fraud claims.

Angela represents companies, corporate officers and directors, and executives in high-profile white-collar criminal cases, securities and regulatory enforcement matters, and in related state and federal litigation. Angela has extensive experience advising clients in a broad range of industries, including financial services, health care, environmental, and technology, in matters involving securities fraud, health care fraud, theft of trade secrets, environmental crimes, FCPA violations, and other alleged offenses. She also advises clients on negotiating with the government and responding to civil investigative demands and broad investigative subpoenas. In addition, Angela regularly assists companies in conducting sensitive internal investigations. In the civil arena, Angela has represented businesses and individuals accused of negligence in hiring, Lanham Act and civil RICO claims as well as breach of fiduciary duty, usurpation of corporate opportunity, and fraud claims.

Angela was formerly managing partner of a white collar and litigation boutique law firm in Los Angeles. She currently serves on the board of directors for Teach Democracy (formerly the Constitutional Rights Foundation) and is a member of the governor’s Judicial Selection Advisory Committee for Los Angeles County. She is also active in the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA), serving for many years on both the Judicial Appointments Committee (including for two years as the committee’s Vice Chair) and the Litigation Section Executive Committee (including one year as its Chair). Angela has spoken as a panelist at both the ABA White Collar Crime National Institute and the NACDL West Coast White Collar Seminar. After graduating from Yale Law School in 2001, she clerked for the Honorable Nora M. Manella in the Central District of California, as well as the Honorable Pamela Ann Rymer in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Angela is a member of Winston’s Opportunity & Inclusion Committee, is active in the Latino(a) Lawyer Alliance at Winston, and was a member of the Latinx Law Students Association at Yale Law School.