John Mitchell

John D. Mitchell is a highly accomplished trial lawyer and investigator who joined Willkie after spending 13 years as a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office in Chicago and as a Senior Attorney in the SEC’s Division of Enforcement. John spent the bulk of his time as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Securities & Commodities Fraud Section, where he led teams of prosecutors and FBI agents in dozens of criminal investigations and served as trial counsel on behalf of the United States in complex and high-profile jury trials involving insider trading, securities fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, racketeering, and other federal criminal violations. As a member of Willkie’s Litigation Department and the Firm’s White-Collar Defense, Securities Litigation & Enforcement, and Investigations & Enforcement Practice Groups, John represents companies and individuals in government and internal investigations as well as in complex civil and criminal matters in federal courts throughout the United States.