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Tom B. Davidson

Davidson_Tom

Tom B. Davidson

Senior Associate

San Francisco + 1 628 235 1021

Tom Davidson counsels clients on a wide range of investigations and enforcement matters including complex securities, sanctions, corporate fraud, FCPA, corporate governance and compliance issues. Mr. Davidson’s practice focuses on the banking, cryptocurrency, finance and technology industries.

Mr. Davidson has represented dozens of large multinational corporations and individuals in a range of DOJ, Federal Reserve System, OFAC and SEC enforcement matters. He routinely engages with regulators and represents clients testifying before various government agencies.

Prior to joining WilmerHale, Mr. Davidson was an associate at another firm in San Francisco, CA where he coordinated a multi-year bet-the-company government investigation for a billion-dollar corporation. He also co-led multiple data incident investigations for large technology and consulting firms and served as counsel on several shareholder and consumer class action lawsuits. Mr. Davidson maintains an active pro bono practice primarily focused on record clearance, asylum petitions and access to housing. Previously, Mr. Davidson was a legal intern on the San Francisco City Attorney’s Government Team. While working towards his JD, he was a senior project manager with the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium. Prior to law school, Mr. Davidson was a legal operations associate with Google Inc., and a strategy and operations consultant with Deloitte Consulting LLP.

Mr. Davidson is a board member of the AIDS Legal Referral Panel, a Bay Area nonprofit organization that supports people living with HIV/AIDS through direct legal representation and connection to non-legal service providers.

Representative Matters

    • Represent Fortune 100 technology company in numerous Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigations in China, Czechia, Italy, Slovakia and Zimbabwe.
    • Represent prominent investment advisor engaged in various sanctions matters before the DOJ, OFAC and SEC.
    • Represent large cryptocurrency exchange in several highly publicized matters before the SEC concerning securities registration.
    • Represent substantial family trust in complex sanctions assessment and related matters before US, Cayman Island, Swiss, UAE and UK regulators.
    • Represent Fortune 500 company in internal investigation concerning sanctions policies and related conduct.
    • Represent Fortune 10 company in high profile SEC insider trading investigation.
    • Represent large nonprofit in data privacy whistleblower investigation.
    • Represented numerous bank clients, including former c-suite executive, in various matters before the Federal Reserve, FDIC, Federal Housing Finance Agency and SEC concerning spring 2023 banking crisis and related issues.
    • Represented clean energy startup in SEC investigation concerning allegations of misrepresentations to investors.
    • Represented newly public fintech startup in regulatory risk assessment for the company board.
    • Represented CFO of Fortune 500 company in SEC testimony concerning insider trading matter.
    • Represented CFO of public company in financial restatement and SOX 304 matters before the SEC.
    • Represented indigent criminal defendant in Ninth Circuit appeal.

Credentials

  • Education

    • JD, Stanford Law School, 2019

      Highest Pro Bono Distinction

    • BA, Law & Society and Political Science, American University, 2012

      summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa

  • Admissions

    • California

    • US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

    • US District Court for the Northern District of California

Credentials

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