White Collar Defense and Investigations

David P. Burns is a litigation partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  He is the co-chair of the firm’s National Security Practice Group, and a member of the White Collar and Investigations and Crisis Management practice groups.  His practice focuses on white-collar criminal defense, internal investigations, national security, and regulatory enforcement matters.  David represents corporations and executives in federal, state, and regulatory investigations involving securities and commodities fraud, sanctions and export controls, theft of trade secrets and economic espionage, the Foreign Agents Registration Act, accounting fraud, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, international and domestic cartel enforcement, health care fraud, government contracting fraud, and the False Claims Act.