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David Raskin

David Raskin

Title
Partner
Office
Clifford Chance, New York | View map
Practice
Litigation & dispute resolution, Reg enforcement & white collar
Publications
5

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+12128783438

Experience and career history

David Raskin is a former federal prosecutor who has handled some of the most important international terrorism investigations and prosecutions in United States history.  David represents companies, audit committees and senior executives in sensitive matters and corporate crises before the United States federal government, including the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission, and in internal investigations.

From 1999 to 2011, David was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he served for many years as a Chief of that Office's Terrorism and National Security Unit. He was to lead the prosecution in New York City of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and other Guantánamo Bay detainees, for their alleged participation in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, after having previously prosecuted Zacarias Moussaoui for conspiring to take part in those attacks. In addition to his national security work, he also led a worldwide investigation of significant violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which resulted in the December 2011 indictment of former executives of Siemens AG. David also prosecuted numerous cases involving violent organized crime, and argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals in a wide variety of matters, including the appeal of three al Qaeda operatives convicted for the 1998 bombings of U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

New York Law School (JD) 1994
Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in New York 1995
New York City Bar Association's Henry L. Stimson Medal for Outstanding Contributions to the Office of the United States Attorney 2010
Adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and New York Law School
Partner since 2011

U.S. Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service 2011
U.S. Attorney General's Award for Furthering Interests of National Security 2006

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