David Turetsky Bio
David S. Turetsky
Partner, Dewey & LeBoeuf
David Turetsky is Co-Chair of the Antitrust Practice Group and a partner in the Washington, DC office. He works on a range of matters involving transactions or possible anticompetitive conduct. He handles state, federal and international government antitrust investigations; litigates private class and individual lawsuits; appears before regulatory commissions such as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and state insurance departments; works with Congress and the Executive Branch; and counsels clients on a range of US and global conduct, merger, joint venture, regulatory and compliance matters. Mr. Turetsky served as antitrust advisor to President Obama's Transition Team for the Department of Justice. He has also chaired the Emerging Technologies Subcommittee of the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy. He is quoted frequently in the national press on antitrust-related matters.
Mr. Turetsky brings experience to his antitrust and technology work from senior government and business positions, as well as private practice.
He served as one of the nation's senior antitrust law enforcers and competition policy makers from 1993-1997, as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for civil and regulatory affairs in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and initially as senior counsel to Assistant Attorney General Anne K. Bingaman. At the Antitrust Division he oversaw a wide range of antitrust enforcement and policy matters, such as civil litigation, mergers, and regulatory policy involving the media and telecommunications industries, energy, railroads, agriculture and selected computer and software issues. He played a prominent role for the administration in the development of its domestic and international information infrastructure policy, and its work with Congress to pass the Telecommunications Act of 1996. He also served as the Justice Department's representative on the White House group that worked for the successful conclusion of the World Trade Organization's negotiations on an international telecommunications accord, represented the US government in numerous international meetings on antitrust enforcement and telecommunications policy, and led the successful effort to pass the International Antitrust Enforcement Assistance Act of 1994.
In business, after leaving the Department of Justice, Mr. Turetsky served as a senior lawyer and officer of a start-up telecommunications company, Teligent, from 1997-2000. As Teligent's senior vice president for law and regulatory affairs, he managed a broad array of legal and policy issues and helped Teligent to grow and become a public company while capital markets were open to this sector. He left Teligent to establish a law and consulting practice serving a number of major and start-up media, telecommunications, e-commerce, and association clients, usually on competition-related matters.
Mr. Turetsky rejoined the firm in 2005. He had worked previously in the New York office as an associate (1982-1990) and then a partner (1991-1993). While engaged in private practice, Mr. Turetsky has twice been appointed by the FCC and by federal courts in civil antitrust actions (2005 and 2006) to serve as the independent management trustee of a combined 20 wireless markets and the Cellular One brand, which were required to be divested in connection with two mergers. The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice nominated Mr. Turetsky for the posts. While successfully performing one of these appointments, Mr. Turetsky uncovered, investigated and reported on possible violations of the court order, which led to a $1.3 million settlement by the Department of Justice and the Minnesota Attorney General with the acquiror.
