Kirsten Mayer

• General Civil
• Litigation

Massachusetts

Associate

Ropes & Gray

Current

Current

Kirsten has significant experience defending corporations and individuals in the health care industry in grand jury, civil, and administrative investigations by United States Attorneys Offices, Main Justice, the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and various state agencies.She has represented clients in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries in off-label, anti-kickback, AWP, and Medicaid Rebate Program fraud matters. She has also represented academic medical center, for-profit hospital, and not-for-profit hospital clients in anti-kickback, Stark, coding, and clinical research billing investigations.Ms. Mayer represents clients in civil False Claims Act, consumer protection, and private class action litigation, and has advised clients with respect to fraud and abuse and compliance matters in the context of internal investigations and strategic transactions in the health care industry. In addition to her work for health care clients, Kirsten has represented clients from other industries in investigations by United States Attorneys Offices and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, and in complex commercial litigation, including arbitration. Kirsten's work has included achieving dismissal of a federal False Claims Act whistleblower suit in which the United States had intervened, a complete verdict for the defense following a jury trial against the State of West Virginia in Charleston, West Virginia, and decisions by federal law enforcement to take no action against clients after grand jury, civil and administrative investigations.

Harvard Law School

J.D.

1998

magna cum laude, Article Editor, Harvard International Law Journal

Columbia University

1995

M. Phil. ,Philosophy

Columbia University

M.A.

1994

Philosophy

University of Pennsylvania

B.A.

1991

magna cum laude, with Distinction in Philosophy, Phi Beta Kappa