David Esseks

Practice Areas

David is Global Co-Head of Investigations & White Collar. David's practice focuses on criminal, civil, and regulatory securities litigation and anti-corruption investigations.

David's representations include banks and foreign and domestic corporations in connection with US regulatory and criminal investigations concerning securities, commodities, and insider trading offenses, and violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the US antitrust, money laundering and economic sanctions laws as well as individual officers and employees in similar investigations.

Before joining the firm, Mr. Esseks was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Chief of that Office’s Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force. In that role, he oversaw a staff of 20 prosecutors and coordinated fraud investigations with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and FINRA.