Brian O’Mara
Brian counsels institutional investors in the United States and around the world, helping them navigate complex securities, antitrust, and consumer protection litigation.
Brian counsels institutional investors in the United States and around the world, helping them navigate complex securities, antitrust, and consumer protection litigation.
Brian O’Mara is a partner in DiCello Levitt’s San Diego office. His practice focuses on complex securities, antitrust, and consumer protection litigation in state and federal courts across the United States.
Over the past 20 years, Brian has served as lead or co-lead counsel in numerous shareholder, consumer protection, and antitrust actions involving companies in the financial services, technology, pharmaceutical, entertainment and gaming, and telecommunications industries, which have yielded billions of dollars in recoveries. He has helped institutional investors protect their fund investments by securing leadership positions in dozens of securities and antitrust actions and has been responsible for a number of significant trial and appellate court rulings in the securities and antitrust space.
Prior to joining DiCello Levitt, Brian was a partner at a leading complex litigation law firm and served as chief underwriter officer for a global private equity and advisory firm specializing in litigation finance, judgment enforcement, asset recovery, and related strategies serving claimants, law firms and other professional service firms, and businesses across the globe. In this capacity, Brian was responsible for directing the firm’s underwriting process for prospective investments and managing the firm’s investment portfolio, which included litigation and arbitration disputes in jurisdictions around the world.
Brian has been twice recognized by the American Antitrust Institute’s Antitrust Enforcement Awards for the category of Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement in Private Law Practice for his work in the ISDAfix price-fixing litigation and the EpiPen class action alleging antitrust and RICO violations. He has also been named a Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers Magazine for the past six consecutive years and recognized as a Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyer by Lawdragon.
Brian graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in economics, and he received his law degree from DePaul University College of Law, where he was the recipient of a CALI Excellence for the Future Award in securities regulation.