John F. Savarese has been a partner in the litigation department of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz for over 20 years, where he has represented numerous corporations and senior executives in regulatory enforcement proceedings and white collar criminal investigations. Prior to joining the firm, he worked in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where he tried numerous jury trials and also served as Chief Appellate Attorney. He served as a law clerk to Justice William J. Brennan of the United States Supreme Court, and the Honorable Louis H. Pollak of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Savarese teaches a course on white collar criminal law and procedure at Harvard Law School and was named the first chairman of the newly formed White Collar Criminal Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association.