David P Burns

David focuses on white-collar criminal defense, internal investigations, national security, and regulatory enforcement matters. He represents corporations and executives in federal, state, and regulatory investigations involving securities and commodities fraud, sanctions and export controls, theft of trade secrets and economic espionage, the Foreign Agents Registration Act, accounting fraud, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, international and domestic cartel enforcement, health care fraud, government contracting fraud, and the False Claims Act. He is co-chair of the firm’s National Security Practice Group.

David served in senior positions in both the Criminal Division and National Security Division of the DOJ. Most recently, he served as Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division. Prior to joining the Criminal Division, he served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the National Security Division (2018-2020) and supervised the Division’s investigations and prosecutions, including counterterrorism, counterintelligence, economic espionage, cyber hacking, FARA, disclosure of classified information, and sanctions and export controls matters. He was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the SDNY (2000-2005).

JD, Columbia Law School, 1995; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; Articles Editor, Columbia Business Law Review.