AARON LEWIS
Partner; Vice Chair, White Collar Defense
and Investigations
Covington & Burling LLP
General counsel and boards of directors call on Aaron Lewis to conduct their most sensitive internal investigations and to defend their businesses and senior executives in their most serious enforcement matters. A founding member of Covington’s Los Angeles office and vice chair of the firm’s White Collar Defense and Investigations practice, Lewis returned to Covington in 2015 after six years at the Department of Justice.
Lewis has been a leader and innovator in this rapidly evolving frontier at the intersection of ESG and traditional internal investigations since it first emerged in 2016. This foundation of experience includes helping to lead Covington’s work to support the first civil rights audit for Airbnb, as well as the firm’s assessments of Starbucks’ efforts to promote civil rights, equity, diversity, and inclusion, and also more recent engagements for Citibank, Verizon, Dow, Wells Fargo and other public companies in a variety of industries.
