REED STEPHENS, Partner, Winston & Strawn

T. Reed Stephens is a partner in the White Collar Defense Practice Group of Winston & Strawn’s Washington, D.C. Office. He is the head of the firm’s Healthcare/FDA Practice. Reed’s work has taken him to Europe and Africa, among other destinations, to providehishigh stakes risk mitigation and compliance advisory practice to clients.

As a trial attorney with the United States Department of Justice from 1995 to 2003, Reed broke new ground as lead counsel in various fraud matters involving the life sciences industry ushering in an era of regulatory compliance for the industry earning him a Civil Division Special Commendation Award in 2002.  Since leaving the DOJ, Reed has been advising and defending global pharmaceutical companies, hospital systems, health plans, and other global corporations on False Claims Act litigation (including precedent-setting Stark Law litigation), health care fraud & abuse issues, FDA regulatory, Congressional investigations into drug pricing strategies launched by both the Senate and House of Representatives, government contracts (including voluntary disclosures of billing irregularities), foreign & domestic bribery statutes (including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act), merger and acquisition due diligence risk, and individual white collar criminal exposure.

Reed earned his undergraduate and law degrees from Princeton University and Stanford Law School, respectively. Reed’s honors includeLaw360 Life Sciences Editorial Advisory Board 2022;Chambers USA Ranking in Health Care2008 - 2014; Benchmark Litigation, Local Litigation Star 2017; LMG Life Sciences, Life Sciences Star, 2013 - 2019; Washingtonian Magazine, Washington's Best Lawyers 2013; On Being A Black Lawyer’s Nation’s Top Lobbyists And Influencers, 2014 and 2019, 2020; and Savoy Magazine’s Top Black Lawyers of 2015.