Arnall Golden Gregory's White-Collar Defense, Antitrust, Financial Services Expertise Deepens With Addition of Two Attorneys

ATLANTA and WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlanta-based law firm Arnall Golden Gregory LLP took an important step in beefing up its Government Investigations and White Collar Crimes, Antitrust and Regulatory practices with the hiring of Partner Jeffrey S. Jacobovitz and Of Counsel David A. Felt, both of whom have joined the firm's growing Washington office.

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Mr. Jacobovitz's practice focuses on antitrust, white collar defense and complex civil litigation for corporations, trade associations, health care organizations, and individuals.  His experience includes more than 40 criminal and civil jury trials as first chair.

Mr. Jacobovitz has successfully represented clients investigated by the independent counsel, including White House officials and employees.  He was lead counsel for one of the few senior tax partners at a major accounting firm to avoid indictment for tax evasion and related crimes.  Mr. Jacobovitz also represented a proposed intervenor in the initial U.S. v. Microsoft antitrust litigation and argued both in the U.S. District Court and the District of Columbia Circuit.

In 2006, Mr. Jacobovitz's representation of Compass Marketing in an antitrust case helped create new law.  He was featured as a "Leading Lawyer on Competition, Litigation and Globalization" in The Art and Science of Antitrust Law (Aspatore Books, 2003).  Mr. Jacobovitz formerly was Head of Litigation at a national firm in Washington, and before that was an attorney in the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission.  He is currently the Vice Chair of the Civil Practice and Procedure Committee of the American Bar Association's Antitrust Section.

Mr. Jacobovitz joins Arnall Golden Gregory's Government Investigations and White Collar Crime Practice, which includes a number of former federal prosecutors with substantial experience in defending corporations and corporate executives in high-stakes government investigations and prosecutions. 

Mr. Felt assists clients with regulatory compliance examinations, government contracts, and corporate governance.  He is an expert on banking, housing finance and financial litigation and handles conservatorship and receivership cases, director and officer liability matters, complex enforcement matters, workouts, disclosure and securities issues. 

Mr. Felt was the acting General Counsel for the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Overnight (OFHEO), the regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, before forming his own consulting firm.  He has spent most of his career in the financial services area, serving in a variety of senior positions at the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), OFHEO and the Federal Housing Finance Authority.

Both Mr. Jacobovitz and Mr. Felt are active lecturers and panelists.  Mr. Jacobovitz is frequently quoted in the press and has appeared numerous times on CNN.  Mr. Felt often comments in the media on banking and housing matters.

Arnall Golden Gregory's Washington office, which opened in January 2011, now has 11 attorneys. The office is led by Robert R. Belair, one of America's leading privacy lawyers.  The firm's areas of focus in Washington include International Business (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Export Controls, International Arbitration), Privacy and Consumer Regulatory, Government and Regulatory, Government Investigations and White Collar Crime, Government Affairs and Public Policy, Healthcare, and Food and Drug Law.

About Arnall Golden Gregory
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP is a law firm with offices in Atlanta, Miami and Washington, D.C., that serves the business needs of growing public and private companies.  Its areas of focus include real estate, healthcare, corporate, litigation, international, employment, life sciences, global logistics, privacy and intellectual property law.  With the help of Arnall Golden Gregory's experienced attorneys, clients across a broad range of industries and around the globe turn legal challenges into business opportunities.

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