Life Member

David M. Becker

Bethesda, MD
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Education
Columbia College, A.B.
Columbia Law School, JD

Currently Senior Counsel at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.  Other private sector positions include  Chief Legal Officer at Och-Ziff Capital Management; Partner  at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton; and Partner at Wilmer Cutler & Pickering. 

Government positions include General Counsel at the Securities and Exchange Commission (twice); Assistant Deputy General Counsel, Department of HEW; Law Clerk to Associate Justice Stanley R. Reed; and Law Clerk to Circuit Judge Harold Leventhal.  

Recipient of lifetime achievement award from Association of SEC ALumni in 2019. 

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Areas of Expertise
Securities Law
Accounting Law