Christopher H. Casey

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Christopher H. Casey is a first-chair trial lawyer whoconcentrates his practice in the areas of white-collar defense and criminal and civil antitrust litigation, and has particular experience with the financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, and food industries. Mr. Casey previously worked in the Associate Attorney General's Office of the United States Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and as an Assistant United States Attorney. Relying on his government experience, he regularly conducts internal investigations for his clients.

As a Deputy Associate Attorney General from 2014 to 2016, Mr. Casey advised top officials in the DOJ on the formulation and execution of policy in the areas of financial fraud, antitrust, tax and bankruptcy . Mr. Casey’s oversight responsibilities included the Antitrust Division, the Tax Division, and the United States Trustee Program.

He was one of two deputies to the Associate Attorney General-the Department’s third-highest ranking official-who supervised the Department’s cases against the world’s largest financial institutions for the fraudulent packaging and sale of Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS). In this role, he worked with the President’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force and RMBS Working Group, as well as lawyers in the Department’s Civil Division and in U.S. Attorney’s Offices throughout the country. Those cases produced multibillion-dollar settlements with Bank of America, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, and Barclays. He also worked with the leadership of the United States Trustee Program, the watchdog of the U.S. bankruptcy system, on investigations of mortgage-loan servicing violations by major financial institutions.

While at the DOJ, Mr. Casey led the Department’s development of a first-ever policy for selection of compliance monitors in civil corporate settlements. Working with the Antitrust Division, he led the Department’s response to the White House Executive Order on Competition in 2016. Mr. Casey was also part of the working group that developed the Department’s September 2015 policy statement on “Individual Accountability for Corporate Wrongdoing” (the “Yates Memorandum ).

In addition to the DOJ, Mr. Casey spent nearly six years litigating antitrust merger challenges at the FTC in Washington, primarily in the telecommunications, energy, chemical, healthcare, and food industries.

As Assistant United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania from 1999 to 2006, Mr. Casey prosecuted felony white-collar, narcotics, firearms and immigration crimes.

Mr. Casey earned his J.D. from The George Washington University Law School and his B.A. in mathematics from the College of the Holy Cross.

Resume

Experience

•Duane Morris LLP
- Partner, 2018-present

•Hogan Lovells US LLP
- Partner, 2016-2018

•United States Department of Justice
- Deputy Associate Attorney General, 2014-2016

•Dilworth Paxson LLP
- Partner, 2006-2014

-Chair, Corporate Investigations and White Collar Group, 2013-14

•United States Attorney’s Office, Middle District of Pennsylvania
- Assistant United States Attorney, 1999-2006

•Sole Practitioner/Assistant Public Defender, Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1995-1999

•Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Competition
- Antitrust Litigator, 1990-1995

•U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
- Law Clerk, 1988-1990

•Cozen O’Connor
- Associate, 1987-1988

Board Memberships

•Kimmel Cancer Center, 2013-14

Honors and Awards

•AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell

•Named Pennsylvania Super Lawyer, Criminal Defense: White Collar category, by Philadelphia Magazine, 2013, 2014

•Federal Trade Commission, Award for Meritorious Service, 1994, 1995

Publications and Speaking Engagements

Selected Publications

•Co-author, Third Circuit Reaffirms 'Rigorous Analysis' Requirement for Class Certification, Duane Morris Alert, April 27, 2020
•Co-author, FTC and DOJ Warn Against Anticompetitive Conduct That Harms Workers During COVID-19 Crisis, Duane Morris Alert, April 16, 2020
•Co-author, Federal and State Enforcers Will Scrutinize Pricing Behavior During COVID-19 Pandemic, Duane Morris Alert, April 7, 2020
•Author, Over Three Years After Policy Shift, Still No Wage-Fixing or No-Poach Prosecutions from DOJ, Employee Relations Law Journal, Spring 2020
•Co-author, Expect Delays in Merger Reviews by FTC and DOJ During COVID-19 Restrictions, Duane Morris Alert, March 26, 2020
•Co-author, DOJ Makes Clarifying Changes to FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy, Duane Morris Alert, December 2, 2019
•Co-author, DOJ Criminal Division Issues Comprehensive Guidance on Evaluating Claims of Inability to Pay Criminal Fines or Penalties, Duane Morris Alert, October 14, 2019
•Author, Three Years After Policy Shift, Still No Wage-Fixing or No-Poach Prosecutions from DOJ, Duane Morris Alerts, October 10, 2019

•Co-author, In Major Shift, DOJ Antitrust Division Now Credits Compliance Programs at the Charging Stage, Duane Morris Alert, July 31, 2019

•Co-author, FTC Issues Report on Its Authority Under Section 5 of the FTC ACT to Challenge Pharmaceutical Drug Price Increases, Duane Morris Alert, July 16, 2019

•Co-author, DOJ Criminal Division Issues Comprehensive Guidance on Corporate Compliance Programs, Duane Morris Alert, May 17, 2019

•Quoted, Working With the Feds, Nike’s Avenatti Case Highlights Cooperation, WWD, April 11, 2019

•Author, DOJ Fraud Section Suffers Rare Rule 29 Acquittal in Forex Options Case, Duane Morris Alert, March 22, 2019

•Co-author, Third Circuit Curtails FTC's Authority to Seek Injunctions and Restitution in Federal Court, Duane Morris Alert, March 1, 2019

•Co-author, U.S. District Court Further Reinforces Use of Per Se Standard in Criminal Antitrust Cases, Duane Morris Alert, February 26, 2019

•Co-Author, Ninth Circuit Reinforces Applicability of Per Se Standard in Criminal Antitrust Cases, Duane Morris Alert, February 4, 2019

•Quoted in, Tweaks to Yates Memo Will Make Investigations More Efficient, Lawyers Say, Global Investigations Review, January 8, 2019

•Co-author, DOJ Eases Yates Memo’s “All or Nothing” Approach to Corporate Cooperation Credit, Duane Morris Alert, December 10, 2018

•Author, App Buyers’ Claim of Apple Monopolization Has Supreme Court Questioning Longstanding Antitrust Doctrine, Duane Morris Alert, December 4, 2018

•Author, DOJ Antitrust Division Suffers Another Trial Setback in Forex-Rigging Case, Duane Morris Alert, November 7, 2018

•Author, DOJ Criminal Division Issues New Guidance on Corporate Compliance Monitors, Duane Morris Alert, October 23, 2018

•Author, FIRREA: A Powerful Tool for the Government, The Banking Law Journal, November/December 2018

•Author, Enforcement Against No-Poach Agreements on the Rise, Duane Morris Alert, July 23, 2018

•Quoted in, HSBC Is In Talks With U.S. to End Crisis-Era Mortgage Probe, Bloomberg, July 5, 2017

•Quoted in, “FTC Highlights Record-Breaking Actions in 2016,” Commercial Dispute Resolution Magazine, May 31, 2017

•Quoted in, Competition Cases to Watch In 2017, Law360, January 2, 2017

•Co-author, Don't Shoot the Plaintiff: The New Regime in Federal Pleading, The Legal Intelligencer, June 30, 2010

•Co-author, Dual Enforcement of Antitrust Laws Keeps Businesses in Line, The Legal Intelligencer, September 24, 2008

•Co-author, Recent High Court Decisions May Help or Hurt Antitrust Defendants, The Legal Intelligencer, April 29, 2008

•Co-author, U.S. High Court Poised to Clarify Its Holding in Booker Case, The Legal Intelligencer, April 17, 2007

•Co-author, The Booker Revolution in Federal Sentencing Has Not Materialized, The Legal Intelligencer, September 27, 2006

Selected Speaking Engagements

• White Collar Practice, Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, The Ritz-Carlton, Philadelphia, November 21, 2019

• Dealing with Corporate Crisis, The Directors Roundtable, New York, June 28, 2018

•Presenter, Antitrust Enforcement Action Update, Commercial Dispute Resolution Magazine's Spring Competition Litigation Symposium, London, February 23, 2017