Oliver Rocos is a partner at Bird Marella. He joined the firm in 2019 after spending five years practicing law at two AmLaw firms, in addition to three years as a barrister in London, England.
He represents a broad range of individuals, media, technology, and financial industry clients in complex commercial disputes involving breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, negligence, and employment claims, as well as securities and regulatory actions. Mr. Rocos is admitted to practice in California, New York, and England & Wales and regularly litigates in state and federal court and arbitration proceedings.
His recent victories include winning a highly complex and contentious anti-SLAPP motion and successfully moving to quash deposition subpoenas on behalf of Lauren Sanchez and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Previously, he secured a complete and final dismissal of all amended counterclaims against client Word Collections, Inc., a performing rights collection agency representing songwriters and comedians, in an antitrust action brought by subscription-based audio streaming service Pandora.
In recent years, he also won two federal class actions on behalf of Hyundai Motor America, one of which included claims of breach of warranty and violations of various state consumer protection laws.
Notably, Mr. Rocos helmed a class action lawsuit on behalf of inmates in Lompoc Federal Prison regarding the Bureau of Prisons' failed response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He obtained a preliminary injunction that required the BOP to review its denials of home confinement to hundreds of prisoners and also defeated a motion to dismiss. This decision vastly improved the lives of those transferred out of Lompoc and those who remained, who had much improved conditions of confinement. The ACLU SoCal awarded Mr. Rocos and his team the 2021 Humanitarian Award, recognizing this extraordinary advocacy.
He is currently representing billionaire casino magnate Steve Wynn in his defense of a class action securities lawsuit and, in another high-profile matter, representing FFP (Cayman) as trustee of hundreds of millions of dollars in assets related to the 1MDB (1Malaysia Development Berhad) scandal (the largest civil forfeiture litigation brought by the U.S. Department of Justice's Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative).
Mr. Rocos was also recognized among The Recorder's Lawyers on the Fast Track list at the 2023 California Legal Awards.
Updated Aug 2024
