Mr. David J. Molton

David J. Molton is a partner at Brown Rudnick LLP in the firm?s Litigation & Arbitration and Bankruptcy & Corporate Restructuring Practice Groups and is the chair of its Cross-Border, Mass Tort, andRestructuring Litigation. He focuses his practice on complex financial, commercial and mass tort litigation matters in federal, state and bankruptcy courts in the U.S., and he represents foreign liquidators, official committees of creditors, unofficial ad hoc committees of creditors and interested parties in financial fraud and mass tort-related litigations and bankruptcies in the U.S. and in foreign jurisdictions. Mr.Molton is a Fellow of INSOL International, a worldwide federation of national associations for lawyers, accountants and other professionals who specialize in financial fraud, asset-tracing and recovery and insolvency in domestic and cross-border cases. Previously, he clerked for Hon. J. Edward Lumbard of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Earlier in his career, he served as an assistant district attorney in and for the Office of the District Attorney for New York County, where he was assigned to theSpecial Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York under Hon. Sterling Johnson, Jr. As a prosecutor,Mr. Molton supervised joint federal/state law enforcement task force teams and investigations for theNew York Drug Enforcement Task Force and the Department of Justice?s Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, and he prosecuted cases involving racketeering enterprises and organized crime narcotics conspiracies and distribution networks, and efforts to locate, seize and effectuate the forfeiture of proceeds and assets connected to those criminal activities both in the U.S. and abroad. Mr. Molton is admitted to practice in New Jersey and California, and before the U.S. Supreme Court; the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third and Ninth Circuits; the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York, the District of New Jersey, and the Northern Districts of Illinois andCalifornia; and the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts. He received his B.A. summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1979 from Brandeis University, and his J.D. cum laude in 1982 from New YorkUniversity School of Law, where he was admitted to the Order of the Coif.