John Buretta

John D. Buretta is Chair of Cravath’s Investigations and Regulatory Enforcement Practice, a partner in the Litigation Department and a former senior U.S. Department of Justice official. He focuses his practice on representing corporations, board members and senior executives with respect to internal investigations, criminal defense, regulatory compliance and serving as lead counsel in related civil litigation. His clients have included global companies, boards of directors, audit committees, individual board members, company owners, senior management of public companies, general counsels and other in-house counsel of public companies, law firms and former U.S. and foreign government officials. Mr. Buretta has worked across many industries, including the banking, private investment, energy, aircraft, publishing, information, communications, technology, food, consumer, mining, aircraft, automotive, healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors.

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Chief of Staff, DOJ Criminal Division (2013); Director, Deepwater Horizon Task Force (2011-2013); Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ Criminal Division (2011-2013); Chief, Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, EDNY (2008-2011); Assistant U.S. Attorney, E.D.N.Y. (2002-2007). Supervised preparation of the DOJ and SEC Resource Guide to the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (2012). Georgetown University Law Center (JD, cum laude, 1996); University of California, Berkeley (BA, 1993).