Current Employment Position(s)

Of Counsel

Year Joined Organization: 2000

Languages

• Spanish

Lawyer Overview

David Rivera, counsel to the firm, is a civil litigator with experience in regulatory and securities law who works with Mr. Mack on a number of ongoing monitorships. Mr. Rivera was a Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at Kidder, Peabody & Co. Incorporated where he handled regulatory investigations and inquiries, defended customer and employment arbitrations in-house, conducted broker-training seminars as part of a Compliance Awareness Program and helped coordinate the defense of several hundred limited partnership arbitrations. From 1988 to l992, Mr. Rivera was a litigation associate at Kelley, Drye & Warren working on complex antitrust and securities cases. In 1986, Mr. Rivera interned in Governor Cuomo's Executive Chamber.

Practice Areas:

• White Collar Criminal Defense
• Securities Law
• Complex Civil Litigation
• Internal Investigations, Corporate Compliance, and Monitorships

Areas of Practice

• Regulatory
• Securities Law
• White-Collar Crime
• Complex Civil Litigation
• Internal Investigations

West Practice Categories

Regulatory Enforcement, Business Organizations, White Collar Crimes, Regulatory Compliance & Auditing, Law Enforcement Agencies, Complex Litigation, Securities Law

Bar Admissions

• New York, 1988
• U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York

Past Employment Positions

• Kidder, Peabody & Co. Incorporated, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, 1992 - 1997
• Kidder, Peabody & Co. Incorporated, Consultant, 1999
• Kelley Drye & Warren, New York, Litigation Associate, 1988 - 1992
• Bachner, Tally, Polevoy, Misher & Brinberg, New York, Summer Associate, 1987
• J.C. Penny, Inc., New York, Summer Associate, Legal Department, 1986
• Governor Cuomo's Executive Chamber, New York, Intern, 1986

Education

• Columbia Law School, New York, New York, 1988
  J.D.
  
  Law Review: Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Assistant Managing Editor
• Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, New York, 1985
  B.A.
  Honors: magna cum laude
  Honors: Class Baccalaureate Speaker
  Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
  Honors: Geist Scholarship for Pre-Law Excellence
  Honors: Dean's List
  Honors: Political Science Honors Society
  Honors: Moot Court Champion (1984)
  Honors: Moot Court Judge (1985)
  Major: Political Science
  Minor: History of Western Thought

Published Works

• "Rewind, Replay", Windstorm Creative, Northwest Passages: A Cascadian Odyssey, 2005

Address

217 Broadway
New York, NY 10007

Phones

(212) 619-3730

Faxes

(212) 962-5037

Emails

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Websites

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