Attorney

Mitra Hormozi has extensive experience working on behalf of clients facing regulatory investigations, potential criminal prosecutions, internal investigations, and compliance matters. She regularly advises corporate boards, chief executive officers, and general counsels regarding legal issues related to governance, internal controls, government investigations, and threats of litigation. She has also directed investigations, tried cases at the trial and appellate level, and served as a court-appointed monitor and special master.

Prior to forming Blue Raven LLP, Mitra was Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Revlon, Inc., where she oversaw legal, compliance, and regulatory operations for the publicly traded, multinational consumer products company. Legal oversight included global operations, corporate reporting and disclosure, corporate refinancing, trademarks, patents, employment, marketing, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions. Compliance oversight included Code of Business Conduct training and investigations globally and corporate adherence to all privacy regulations. Regulatory oversight included all international regulations about ingredients and advertising. Mitra also served as interim Chief Human Resources Officer of Revlon.

Before her role at Revlon, Mitra was a litigation partner at two nationally recognized law firms, where she represented corporations and individuals in connection with investigations conducted by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), New York Attorney General and Manhattan District Attorney’s Offices.

Mitra brings to her practice substantial experience in government enforcement. In addition to her time as a federal prosecutor, Mitra served as Special Deputy Chief of Staff for litigation at the New York State Office of the Attorney General, where she supervised high-profile initiatives involving public integrity, consumer fraud, the False Claims Act, and internet fraud, including working on settlements with social networking sites. In addition, she spearheaded the investigation of state Senator Pedro Espada. As a result, she was designated a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney to help federal authorities indict and convict Espada on embezzlement and theft charges.

As a federal prosecutor, Mitra served as Chief of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section for the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York (EDNY). There, she investigated and successfully tried notorious organized crime cases involving murders, narcotics trafficking, extortion, mail and wire fraud, money laundering, and more. In 2006, Mitra prosecuted the “Mafia Cops” case against two retired New York Police Department detectives who worked as mob hitmen. After winning life sentences for each, she also won reinstatement of the guilty verdicts when they were set aside by the trial court. Mitra was also on the team that tried the boss of one of the five organized crime families in New York. For her work as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, she received the FBI Director’s Award and the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation Award.

Mitra graduated from the New York University School of Law (1995) and received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan (1991). She currently serves on the Board of Apollo Global Management and is a member of the Nominating and Governance Committee and the Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Committee. She also serves on the Board of Athene and is the legal and regulatory committee chairperson. After leaving Revlon as General Counsel, Mitra served as a Revlon Board of Directors member.

In addition, Mitra has taken on several significant roles in the public arena. She was the Chairperson of the New York State Commission on Public Integrity; Commissioner of the New York State Commission on Legislative, Judicial, and Executive Compensation (2019-2020); a board member New York University Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement; and a member of the Manhattan DA’s Office Conviction Integrity Policy Advisory Panel.