Sarah Caruana

Associate

Sarah Caruana is a member of the firm's litigation group where she represents clients in complex civil and criminal actions. Sarah helps clients conduct investigations into cybercrime and other threats to intellectual property and digital assets.

Sarah's experience also includes defending and advising clients across a wide range of industries facing multi-jurisdictional criminal and regulatory scrutiny, including by U.S. and foreign regulators. She has represented clients in high-stakes complex commercial litigation from the pleading stage through trial.

Practice Highlights

Investigations and regulatory enforcement

Advocates for clients with global operations in response to domestic and foreign regulators investigating matters pertaining to allegations of money laundering, corruption, fraud, and cyber security violations. Partners with clients on cybercrime and intellectual property investigations and civil and criminal enforcement actions.

Complex commercial litigation

Represents clients in high-stakes litigation through pleadings, discovery, motion practice, and trial, including FTC merger challenges, antitrust allegations, and securities fraud and class actions.

*Denotes an attorney's experience prior to joining Davis Wright Tremaine

Admitted to Practice

New York, 2015
District of Columbia, 2017
Washington, 2022
U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 2018
U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 2020
U.S. District Court District of D.C., 2019
U.S. District Court District of Maryland, 2018

Education

J.D., Yale Law School, 2014
- Submissions Editor, Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics
- Immigration Legal Services Clinic
B.A., History, University of Georgia, 2010, summa cum laude
- Foundation Fellowship

Background

- Associate, Freshfields US LLP, Washington, D.C., 2019-2021
- Associate, Cunningham Levy Muse LLP, Washington, D.C., 2018-2019
- Law Clerk, Hon. Richard M. Gergel, U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina, Charleston, S.C., 2017-2018
- Associate, Freshfields US LLP, Washington, D.C., 2014-2016