Angela Machala
Los Angeles Managing Partner
Winston & Strawn LLP
Some of Angela Machala’s most striking case-related career accomplishments to date involve successfully getting criminal charges dropped against her clients before trial, against all odds. Her track record is due in part to her diligence in researching and investigating these cases, as well as her finely honed ability to use the resulting facts to educate and persuade prosecutors of her clients’ innocence.
In 2020, Machala helped to successfully secure a rare post-indictment dismissal of all criminal charges against her client in a closely watched theft of trade secrets case in the Northern District of California. Continuing this pattern of success, she also obtained a declination from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York on behalf of a designated “target” in an insider trading investigation – an extremely rare decision, particularly for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in that district, which rarely backs off such cases.
