David Bitkower

David Bitkower helps companies navigate significant and complex white-collar investigations. He serves clients across all major industries, including technology, defense, finance, communications, and healthcare. With extensive experience as both a defense attorney and a former high-ranking DOJ official, David helps clients assess risk and achieve the best outcome.

David is a former Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the US Department of Justice. In that role, he managed more than 700 federal prosecutors and helped to oversee the Department’s most significant investigations and prosecutions of corporate wrongdoing, including financial institution fraud, FCPA violations, sanctions evasion, and healthcare fraud.

Before serving in DOJ leadership, David prosecuted financial fraud, money laundering, export violations, terrorism, and violent crime as an Assistant US Attorney in the Eastern District of New York. At EDNY, David was chief of the National Security and Cybercrime Section and chief of the Violent Crimes and Terrorism Section, where he prosecuted prominent terrorism cases including the trial of an al-Qaeda plot to bomb the New York City subway system.

David serves as a Co-Chair of the firm’s Investigations, Compliance, and Defense Practice.