Raj Parekh

Raj Parekh leads Sparacino PLLC’s National Security Practice in the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA), in addition to handling a wide variety of national security cases, including anti-terrorism matters, in federal courts nationwide.  Mr. Parekh is the former Acting United States Attorney and First Assistant United States Attorney in EDVA, where he led a staff of over 300 prosecutors, civil litigators, and support personnel in a district that serves over six million residents.  He successfully prosecuted some of the most significant national security cases in the past decade, including the highest-ranking fighter for ISIS to have ever faced a jury trial in the United States.

Raj was the highest-ranking career (non-political) official in EDVA from 2020–2024.  He previously served as a federal prosecutor in the national security and narcotics units, and he also prosecuted cases with the financial crimes, cybercrime, and major crimes units of the Office. In 2024, Mr. Parekh was selected as the first-ever Chief of Corporate Enforcement at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security, where he continued to serve on detail from EDVA before joining the firm in March 2025.

Raj is a skilled and experienced litigator, having tried more than 40 cases to verdict throughout his career and having previously worked at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Counterterrorism Section, IBM, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the international law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, and as a judicial fellow under the supervision of two former Chief Judges of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.  For his impressive track record in public service, Mr. Parekh received the South Asian Bar Association of Washington, D.C.’s Public Sector Trailblazer Award.