Scott Muller

Mr. Muller is senior counsel in Davis Polk's Litigation Department, its White Collar Criminal Defense and Investigations Group and the firm's Global Enforcement and Investigations Group. He was a partner at the firm until January 1, 2015. An experienced civil litigator in subject matters ranging from antitrust and securities fraud to contract and professional liability and in complex parallel proceedings involving multiple plaintiff groups, regulators and criminal authorities, Mr. Muller has extensive experience in domestic and cross-border investigations and compliance matters focusing, most recently, on anti-corruption, antitrust, sanctions, tax, banking and fraud matters for both individuals and companies. He pioneered the use of the corporate "deferred prosecution" to resolve a federal criminal investigation and has advised numerous domestic and foreign companies, boards and board committees on matters relating to compliance, regulatory and criminal enforcement. A former Vice Chairman of the ABA's White Collar Crime Committee, he has lectured widely, taught criminal investigations at Georgetown University Law Center as an adjunct professor and currently teaches a course in the Regulation of Foreign Corrupt Practices at NYU Law School. From October 2002 through July 2004, he served as General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency, and from 1979 to 1982, he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Mr. Muller clerked for the Watergate Special Prosecution Force and the Honorable Francis L. Van Dusen, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. B.A., Princeton University, 1971 J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1975