David M. Chaiken, J.D.

David Chaiken is a former federal prosecutor with more than 20 years of experience handling sophisticated business disputes, white collar litigation, government investigations, and internal investigations. He is a co-founder of Chaiken Ghali LLP, a boutique white collar litigation and investigations law firm based in Atlanta. Before founding his own firm, Mr. Chaiken was a white collar partner at the Troutman Pepper law firm in Atlanta from 2016-2020. Before joining Troutman, Mr. Chaiken served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Economic Crimes section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia for nearly 10 years, handling a variety of white collar investigations and prosecutions including significant insider trading, embezzlement, securities fraud, and bribery and corruption matters with the FBI, Secret Service, IRS, and other agencies. Prior to his government service, Mr. Chaiken was a business litigation associate at King & Spalding LLP in Atlanta and Heller Ehrman LLP in San Francisco. At the beginning of his career, he served as a law clerk to Judge William C. O’Kelley of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Mr. Chaiken is a graduate of Colgate University and Emory University School of Law.