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Partner

David Gopstein is a partner at Hecker Fink LLP.

A seasoned first-chair trial attorney and former federal prosecutor, David represents senior executives, companies, and Boards of Directors in high-stakes criminal and civil enforcement matters involving the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, FINRA, federal banking regulators and other federal, state, and local authorities. He advises companies and individuals in a wide range of white-collar and regulatory matters, including those involving alleged securities and commodities fraud, market manipulation, accounting fraud, money laundering, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations. David also maintains a broad commercial litigation practice. His clients include financial institutions, private funds, multinational corporations, professional sports organizations, and their executives.

David is currently a member of the Criminal Justice Act Panel in the Eastern District of New York (EDNY), where he represents indigent criminal defendants in federal court.

Prior to joining the firm, David served as Deputy Chief of the Business & Securities Fraud Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. He also served at various points as the Healthcare Fraud Coordinator, a Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Coordinator, and the Environmental Crimes Coordinator. Over his seven years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, David conducted numerous jury trials and led and supervised a wide range of investigations and prosecutions involving securities fraud, healthcare fraud, wire fraud, tax fraud, money laundering, digital assets and cybercrime, foreign bribery and the FCPA, and the Bank Secrecy Act. David also briefed and argued numerous appeals before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. David twice received the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation’s Prosecutor of the Year award, as well as the IRS’s Deputy Commissioner award and the Federal Drug Agents Foundation True American Hero award.

Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, David clerked for the Honorable Naomi Reice Buchwald of the U.S. District Court for the SDNY and worked at Debevoise & Plimpton, where he represented institutions and individuals in complex commercial litigation and DOJ, SEC, CFTC, FINRA, and state attorney general investigations and proceedings.

David received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was a senior editor of the Yale Law & Policy Review. He received his A.B., summa cum laude, from Princeton University.