Michael K. Fee

Michael represents organizations and individuals in a wide variety of investigations and enforcement proceedings brought by federal and state government agencies. His practice focuses primarily on white collar criminal, civil, and administrative enforcement matters.

A Partner in the Boston Office of Verrill, Michael directs the White Collar and Government Enforcement practice and Co-Chairs the firm’s Health Care and Life Sciences industry Practice.  He represents organizations and individuals in a broad range of federal and state investigations, as well as criminal, civil and administrative enforcement proceedings brought by federal and state law enforcement agencies.  Michael has decades of experience defending organizations and individuals from various industries in government investigations and enforcement proceedings. In the health care and life sciences industries, he represents academic medical centers, health systems and other providers, medical device companies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, biotech, pharmacy benefit managers, health insurers, and universities.  Michael possesses wide-ranging experience in federal investigations, such as those involving securities law enforcement — including insider trading — false filings, breach of duty, market manipulation and cryptocurrency.  Also defends criminal and administrative enforcement matters involving export and trade controls, money laundering, federal grant issues, trade secret theft, public corruption, fraud, immigration laws and foreign bribery. He is experienced in criminal and civil litigation in federal district and appellate courts, including the litigation of cases brought under the False Claims Act by qui tam relators as well as by the Department of Justice. He has broad experience in state trial and appellate courts as well and has defended numerous clients in matters with state attorneys general from around the country. Michael also employs his experience defending organizations to conduct internal investigations and assist with the design, implementation and review of compliance systems, as well as handling select, complex civil litigation matters. 

Michael served as a federal prosecutor with the Public Integrity Section, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice, joining the Criminal Division from a judicial clerkship under the Attorney General’s Honors Program.  At Public Integrity, he investigated and tried cases involving extortion, bribery, conflict of interest and other offenses committed by federal land state public officials, as well as conducting preliminary investigations under the Independent Counsel Act.  He also served as a Special Assistant US Attorney in the Office of the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (Alexandria Division), prosecuting a variety of general crimes, as well as fraud, illegal drugs and homicide.  Upon graduating law school, Michael immediately served as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable A. David Mazzone, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Services/Industries

• Financial Services
• Health Care
• Health Care & Life Sciences
• Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technologies
• Higher Education
• Manufacturing
• White Collar Defense & Government Enforcement
• Asset Forfeiture, Restitution, & Financial Penalty Defense
• Litigation & Trial
• Health Care Litigation
• Data Privacy and Security
• Strategic Counseling & Transactions

Education

• Boston College Law School (J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, Alpha Sigma Nu)
  • Editor in Chief, Boston College Law Review
• Boston College (A.B., magna cum laude)

Public Service

• Elected Moderator of Town Meeting, Needham, Massachusetts
• Service on various nonprofit boards
• Member of the Dean’s Advisory Board, Boston College Law School

Bar Admissions

• Massachusetts

Court and Other Admissions

• U.S. Supreme Court
• Various U.S. Courts of Appeals
• U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Memberships

• American Bar Association: White Collar Crime Committee and Founding Member of the ABA Health Care Fraud Subcommittee, Criminal Justice Section
• Life Fellow, American Bar Foundation
• Boston Bar Association
• Leadership Fellow, Boston Bar Foundation

Honors

• Ranked Band 1 (highest level) by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business for Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
• Recognized in the Legal 500 US City Elite Rankings – Band 1, White Collar (Boston)
• Named as a Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyer
• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America^® under Commercial Litigation and Criminal Defense: White Collar in Boston, Massachusetts
• Named the “Lawyer of the Year” by The Best Lawyers in America^® for Criminal Defense: White Collar in Boston, Massachusetts
• Recommended by the Lexology Index Investigations 2026 Report
• Named a Massachusetts Super Lawyer
• Recognized by the International Who’s Who of Business Crime Lawyers
• AV^® Preeiminent/Five Star rated by Martindale-Hubbell
• Inducted as a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America

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