About the Office
Davis Polk’s Washington office provides our clients a full range of legal services, with particular emphasis on practice areas with significant activity in the nation’s capital, such as white collar, congressional and other government investigations, antitrust and competition, financial institutions regulation and enforcement, and economic sanctions and national security.
Our Washington team combines years of government experience with the breadth and scope of the entire range of Davis Polk’s corporate, litigation and tax practices. Our ranks include many with considerable government experience.
High-level government positions formerly held by our lawyers include:
White House
- Associate Counsel to the President
- Homeland Security Advisor
- Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
Government Agencies and Regulators
- Federal Reserve Board of Governors – Counsel, Legal Division
- Federal Trade Commission – Chairman
- Federal Trade Commission – Director, Bureau of Economics
- Department of State – Attorney-Adviser, Office of the Legal Adviser
- Department of Commerce – Attorney-Advisor of the Office of the General Counsel
Department of the Treasury
- Senior Counsel of the Office of the Chief Counsel, Foreign Assets Control
- Attorney-Advisor of the Office of Foreign Assets Control
- Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy
Securities and Exchange Commission
- Commissioner
- Director, Division of Trading and Markets
- Director, Division of Enforcement
- Managing Executive for Policy and Market Regulation Counsel
Department of Justice (Main Justice)
- Criminal Division, Fraud Section – Chief
- Criminal Division, Fraud Section – Counsel to the Chief
- Criminal Division – Deputy Assistant Attorneys General
- National Security Division – Assistant Attorney General
U.S. Attorneys’ Offices
- Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys – Director
- District of Columbia – U.S. Attorney
- Southern District of New York – Assistant U.S. Attorney
- Southern District of New York – Chief of the Public Corruption Unit
- Eastern District of New York – Assistant U.S. Attorney
- Eastern District of Virginia – U.S. Attorney
- Eastern District of Virginia – Deputy Chief of the Financial Crimes and Public Corruption Unit