Atty. David B. Massey
David Massey is a former prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York who leads global companies, board committees, and senior executives through high-profile cross-border investigations, criminal prosecutions, and civil litigation.
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David B. Massey is a criminal defense and white collar attorney based in New York, New York, practicing at Perkins Coie LLP. Educated at Yale University (J.D., 1998). Recognitions include Best Lawyers in America — Criminal Defense: White-Collar (2026), Best Lawyers in America — Additional Areas of Practice: (2026), and Best Lawyers in America — Litigation - Banking and Finance (2026). Serands clients in New York, NY and the surrounding metropolitan area.
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- David Massey is a former prosecutor in the U.S
- Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York who leads global companies, board committees, and senior executives through high-profile cross-border investigations, criminal prosecutions, and civil litigation
- David has obtained favorable results for clients in a broad range of cases
- He negotiated the first corporate deferred prosecution agreement in the U.S
- Department of Justice’s (DOJ) FIFA investigation, and he has represented dozens of subjects, targets, defendants, witnesses, and victims in government investigations
- These include matters relating to alleged accounting fraud, foreign and domestic corruption, economic sanctions, money laundering, bank fraud, bankruptcy fraud, wire fraud, insider trading and other securities fraud, tax fraud, and related civil litigation
- As a federal prosecutor, David focused on complex cross-border fraud cases as a member of the SDNY’s Securities and Commodities Task Force
- He tried 12 cases, argued 10 appeals before the U.S
- Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and secured the first-ever indictment and guilty plea of a non-U.S. bank for tax fraud
- David has been recognized by Chambers USA, The Legal 500, Global Investigations Review, Best Lawyers in America, and the National Law Journal in white collar defense
- Chambers USA praised David as a “super talented lawyer” with “skill in seeing the overall strategy and seeing long-term where things are going
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Practicing law in New York. Legal matters in New York are governed by state-specific rules of civil and criminal procedure, statutes of limitations, and substantive law. Cases originating in New York are typically filed in the local municipal court or the appropriate New York state district court, depending on subject matter and amount in controversy. An attorney licensed in New York brings working knowledge of local procedural deadlines, judicial practices in this andnue, and the substantive law that applies to cases brought here. Out-of-state attorneys generally cannot represent clients in New York courts without local counsel or pro hac vice admission.
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