David Siegal

Practice Areas

David is a trial litigator who counsels companies, executives, and high-level professionals in complex white collar and business investigations, government enforcement actions and related criminal and civil cases. He has successfully represented clients in the financial services sector and other industries in courts and before the DOJ, SEC, FINRA, and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), as well as state regulatory agencies, federal grand juries and union arbitration panels. In his 27 years of practice, he has tried 20 federal criminal and civil cases, almost all to juries that returned verdicts, and achieved remarkable victories in several high-profile matters.

David’s focus is on strategic, early efforts to persuade government and regulatory authorities not to file any charges at all against his clients. He has successfully headed off potential enforcement actions against business leaders in a broad range of industries, including all varieties of financial services, automobile manufacturing and sales, professional sports agency, pharmaceuticals and high technology. Areas of his focus, both inside and out of government, have included securities and bank fraud, tax and insurance fraud, cybercrime, data security, international anti-corruption law (including FCPA), along with Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), anti-money laundering (AML) compliance, and defense of obstruction of justice allegations.