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Mohamed Awan

Partner

Mohamed Awan is a commercial litigator with broad experience dealing with high-stakes financial disputes, statutory regimes, and class actions. Mohamed represents clients in litigation arising from M&A, complex financial transactions, and investment fund formation and operation, including broken deals, earnout disputes, fiduciary duties, and breaches in representations and warranties. He counsels and defends technology innovators in matters involving the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) and frequently advises investment fund sponsors on fund formation strategy and dispute prevention. Mohamed is admitted in the District of Columbia and Michigan only, and his practice is supervised by IL Bar members.

Mohamed’s clients benefit from a unique skillset that combines broad-based litigation acumen with a valuable insider perspective on corporate transactions and financial matters—the result of his background as a corporate lawyer for an industry-leading investment funds practice where he advised clients on organizing, structuring, marketing, negotiating, and closing multibillion-dollar funds.

Mohamed counsels and defends financial services, transportation, consumer products, media and entertainment, and technology companies in class action and commercial and complex litigation matters in US federal courts.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Mohamed was a partner at another international law firm. 

  • Served as national counsel to an industry-leading online marketplace on CDA-related matters
  • Represented an investment fund sponsor in bringing fraud and breach of contract claims in Delaware Chancery Court against the seller of an advertising conglomerate relating to the overstatement of financial information and other accounting improprieties during the diligence process
  • Defended a large US auto manufacturer in numerous class actions involving breach of contract, warranty, and fraud-based claims
  • Advised a public media company and its board in defending against claims of mismanagement by dissident shareholders and a subsequent takeover bid
  • Filed a suit on behalf of a target company for breach of contract and specific performance in one of the first broken deal cases to arise out of the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Advised a public consumer product company on liability matters relating to its acquisition of a non-US consumer product manufacturer, including potential exposure under FDA regulations for healthcare claims
  • American University, Washington College of Law, 2011, J.D., cum laude
  • University of Michigan, 2007, B.B.A., finance
  • District of Columbia
  • Michigan
  • US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
  • US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
  • US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
  • US District Court for the Western District of Michigan
  • US District Court for the Middle District of Florida
  • Clerkship to Judge Lawrence P. Zatkoff of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (2011 - 2013)