Before joining the firm, Partner Owen Roth spent nearly a decade as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of California, where he worked on some of the office’s most complex and sensitive investigations. Among them was a multi-year effort targeting the money-laundering networks that move proceeds for one of the region’s most significant drug-trafficking organizations, Sinaloa Cartel.
In March 2025, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced indictments against five alleged members of such a network, part of a broader investigation that had by then resulted in charges against more than fifty defendants and the seizure of millions of dollars and substantial quantities of narcotics. Owen was credited with providing substantial assistance in the cases — the kind of intricate, multi-agency financial-crimes work that defined his tenure in the Justice Department.
That experience — understanding from the inside how the government builds these cases — is part of what he now brings to clients facing serious federal exposure.