Irfan Mahmud is an election and voting rights lawyer in the Political Law group serving candidates, campaigns, party committees, PACs, and tax-exempt organizations.
Before joining the firm as an associate, Irfan worked with the Political Law Group at Perkins Coie as a summer associate for two years, including during the 2020 elections. He also has experience working in federal government and volunteering on campaigns. Irfan clerked for the honorable Judge Robert L. Wilkins on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where he advised on constitutional and administrative law cases.
Irfan graduated with a JD with honors from Harvard Law School where he was elected student body president and with an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was a Knight-Hennessy Scholar and Stanford Impact Leader.
Before graduate school, Irfan worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Co. and with the United Nations in Nairobi. He graduated with a degree in economics from Harvard College, where he was an elected Class Marshal and on the board of the Harvard Institute of Politics.
He is based out of the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.