Peter White

Litigation, Financial Institutions, Regulatory & Compliance, Securities Enforcement, Securities Litigation, White Collar Defense & Government Investigations, Cybersecurity & Data Privacy, Antitrust

Peter H. White is co-chair of the Litigation Group and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. One of the nation’s leading white collar lawyers, Pete represents corporations and executives in managing crisis situations, including grand jury investigations, internal investigations, SEC enforcement proceedings, False Claims Act and qui tam lawsuits, and shareholder class actions. He achieved acquittals on all counts in multiple federal fraud trials, including allegations of accounting and securities fraud, government program fraud, false claims and public corruption. He served as lead counsel in over 80 federal and local jury trials and many more bench trials.

Pete is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. A recipient of the Department of Justice Director’s Award for Superior Performance as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Pete has performed with comparable skill as a private practitioner. Among the many publications that have recognized him as a leading litigator are: The Best Lawyers in America (corporate compliance law, criminal defense: white collar, and litigation-securities), Chambers USA, Ethisphere: Attorneys Who Matter, The Legal 500 United States, Washington DC Super Lawyers, Washingtonian’s “Washington’s Top Lawyers” (criminal defense, white collar) and The Washington Post (“Their Own Defense,” June 18, 2007). Pete obtained his B.A., with high honors, from University of Notre Dame and his J.D. from The University of Virginia School of Law, where he was Order of the Coif and on the Management Board of the Virginia Law Review. Upon graduation, he had the distinction of serving as a law clerk to The Honorable Richard L. Williams of the Eastern District of Virginia.

University of Virginia School of Law, J.D. (Order of the Coif; Notes Editor, Virginia Law Review); University of Notre Dame, B.A., with high honors.