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William H. Devaney

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William H. Devaney

Partner
 
Venable LLP
Rockefeller Center, 1270 Avenue of the Americas
The Twenty-Fifth Floor
New York, New York  10020
(New York Co.)

Telephone: 212-307-5500
Fax: 212-307-5598
http://www.venable.com



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Practice AreasWhite Collar Criminal Defense; Complex Commercial Litigation; Internal Investigation
 
EducationGeorgetown University, J.D., 1991; Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, LL.M., with honors, 1995, Georgetown University, A.B., cum laude, 1988
 
Admitted1991, Pennsylvania; 1992, New York; 1993, Connecticut; 1995, District of Columbia; 1996, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
 
MembershipsAssociation of the Bar of the City of New York (Former Member, Council on Criminal Justice; Member Criminal Advocacy Committee); Federal Bar Council; American Bar Association (Co-Chair, Sub-Committee on Transnational Crime, White-Collar Crime Section).
 
BornWilliamsport, Pennsylvania, January 27, 1966
 
BiographyBarristers Counsel. Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award for Excellence in Moot Court. Law Clerk to the Hon. Oliver Gasch, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, 1993-1994. Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of New Jersey, 2000-2004.
 
ISLN901248600
 

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The Southern District Opens the Door for Fraud Claims against Rating Agencies
Sally G. Blinken, William H. Devaney, Edmund M. O'Toole, October 27, 2009
Institutional investors who lost millions in failed special investment vehicles (SIVs) -- consisting of asset backed securities, residential mortgage backed securities, and collateral debt obligations -- received a much needed boost last month with the recent Southern District decision in Abu Dhabi...

Recent Crackdown on U.S. Export Compliance for Logistics Providers
Lindsay Beardsworth Meyer, Ashley W. Craig, William H. Devaney, Carrie A. Kroll, August 21, 2009
If you are a logistics provider, take notice. Logistics providers are increasingly the target of U.S. export control enforcement actions by both the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security ("BIS"), and the U.S. Department of Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Controls...


 

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