Anjan Sahni

Anjan Sahni serves as the firm’s managing partner. Mr. Sahni represents companies, boards, and senior executives in federal and state government investigations, litigation, and crisis-related matters. He returned to WilmerHale in 2015, after having been a federal prosecutor for over a decade at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where he served in various senior roles. Since 2005, Mr. Sahni has been lead counsel in a dozen federal criminal trials, including in a recent high-profile criminal antitrust trial, in which he obtained an acquittal.

Mr. Sahni advises companies, boards, and senior executives in high-stakes government and internal investigations, litigation, and crisis response. He represents clients in matters involving the DOJ, SEC, CFTC, Congressional Committees, and State Attorneys General. His recent representations have involved the areas of securities and commodities fraud, antitrust, international sanctions, export controls, data privacy, tax law, laws governing the use of classified information, the BSA, the FCPA, and federal and state civil rights laws. Mr. Sahni also advises institutions on culture-related reviews related to race and inclusion issues. He maintains an active pro bono practice on behalf of indigent criminal defendants and the Sikh Coalition, a national civil rights organization.

Mr. Sahni served as an Assistant US Attorney in the Southern District of New York from 2005 to 2015. As a prosecutor, Mr. Sahni served as Chief of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, in which role he supervised investigations and prosecutions involving insider trading, accounting fraud, market manipulation, commodities fraud, and violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Mr. Sahni also served as the Co-Chief of the Terrorism and International Narcotics Unit, where he oversaw investigations and prosecutions involving domestic and international terrorism, arms trafficking, counterintelligence, piracy, money laundering, violations of export controls and economic sanctions laws, and global narcotics trafficking.

After graduating at the top of his class at Emory University, Mr. Sahni attended Yale Law School. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Pierre N. Leval of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, after which he joined WilmerHale as a litigation associate.

Bar Admissions:

New York

The Manipulation Standard and a Setback for CFTC - Law360

Government Experience

Department of Justice

United States Attorney's Office

Assistant US Attorney, Southern District of New York

Department of Justice

United States Attorney's Office

Chief, Criminal Division - Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force, Southern District of New York

Department of Justice

United States Attorney's Office

Co-Chief, Criminal Division - Terrorism and International Narcotics Unit, Southern District of New York

Yale Law School

JD

2001

Emory University

BA

2001

Named among the Best Lawyers in America

Best Lawyers in America

2025

500 Leading Global Cyber Lawyers

Lawdragon

2024

2022 Rainmaker

Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA)

2022

2022 Notable Diverse Leader in Law

Crain's New York Business

2022

Lawyers of Color Power List

Lawyers of Color

2020

2019 Litigation Trailblazer

National Law Journal

2019

2020 Criminal Defense Trailblazer

The National Law Journal

2020

Henry L. Stimson Medal

New York City Bar Association

2014

Litigation Achievement Award

South Asian Bar Association of New York

Department of Justice Director's Award

US Department of Justice

2012

Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award

US Department of Justice

2011