Mike Brown focuses on commercial litigation and represents clients in a range of matters before state and federal trial and appellate courts. Mr. Brown has extensive securities law experience, most recently aiding a public company in the gaming industry dismiss a wave of state and federal shareholder actions. His securities litigation experience spans industries from food delivery companies to pharmaceutical clients, to financial services entities. Mr. Brown represents both individuals and companies in connection with False Claims Act matters, inclusive of an environmental remediation contractor facing allegations arising from work at a Superfund site in California, a military defense contractor who faced allegations related to troop support, and several individual witnesses to allegations against a medical device supplier. Mr. Brown represents clients facing government investigations, inclusive of investigations by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mr. Brown also has an environmental litigation practice, most recently representing a company facing product liability allegations associated with the chemical composition of its roofing product and in a separate matter representing individuals in property claims to eroding shoreline in Martha’s Vineyard. Mr. Brown’s real estate litigation practice has included matters concerning commercial developments in Boston, Martha’s Vineyard and Iceland. In addition to litigating, Mr. Brown advises real estate companies in permitting work and in 2024 helped draft proposed legislation to reform construction contracting law in Massachusetts.  

Mr. Brown’s pro bono practice has included the successful representation of individuals facing eviction proceedings, assisting a veteran successfully upgrade her discharge status after honorable service, bringing and settling a class action on behalf of civil immigration detainees to secure their safe release or transfer due to insufficient confinement conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the successful reversal before the Sixth Circuit of the dismissal of a blind inmate’s constitutional and disability claims. In 2021, Mr. Brown was the recipient of WilmerHale’s John H. Pickering Award for his pro bono efforts on behalf of civil immigration detainees.

Mr. Brown joined WilmerHale as a summer associate in 2015. From 2017 to 2019, he served as a law clerk for US Magistrate Judge the Hon. Judith Gail Dein in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Mr. Brown served Judge Dein in her capacity as the Magistrate Judge assigned to Puerto Rico’s financial restructuring matters under PROMESA.