Jonathan D. King is a Litigation partner in the Chicago office of DLA Piper, with a primary focus on white-collar crime and related issues involving corporate governance and internal fraud investigations. Prior to joining DLA Piper in November 2002, Mr. King served for more than eight years as an Assistant United States Attorney in Chicago and for nearly four years as an Assistant State's Attorney in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office. Before embarking on his career as a government lawyer, Mr. King was in private practice.

Mr. King serves as counsel to individuals and businesses in a broad variety of white-collar matters, including corporate fraud and abuse, accounting irregularities and other types of securities fraud, health care and bank fraud, regulatory and compliance matters, including insurance-related issues, as well as Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and criminal tax and public corruption matters. In this regard, he has conducted numerous corporate internal investigations on behalf of corporations and other entities, as well as corporate boards of directors. Mr. King has also represented both individuals and businesses in connection with grand jury investigations conducted by the US Department of Justice, investigations and enforcement actions brought by the US Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as investigations and prosecutions brought by Attorneys General Offices in various states and by other state and federal agencies. Mr. King has also represented clients in connection with False Claims Act and related matters, and recently achieved a favorable settlement for a client with respect to a qui tam "whistleblower" lawsuit involving alleged violations of the Act brought in the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois.

Besides his white-collar work, Mr. King also handles a variety of complex commercial litigation cases on behalf of individuals and corporations involved in business disputes, as well as securities arbitration matters pending before NYSE, CBOE, and FINRA (formerly NASD) arbitration panels.

Before leaving the US Attorney's Office, Mr. King's most recent work on behalf of the government involved the investigation and prosecution of high-profile public corruption cases. Mr. King's extensive trial experience includes serving as lead counsel in United States v. Genova, et al., in which three former Calumet City, Illinois public officials, including then-sitting Mayor Genova, were convicted of racketeering, theft, fraud, and other offenses after a four-week trial. Prior to the indictment of Genova and his co-defendants, Mr. King directed the extensive investigation by the Justice Department and FBI that ultimately led to their convictions. At the time Mr. King left the Office, he was assigned to the Public Corruption Section, where he was fully devoted to the prosecution of such cases.

Before serving in the Public Corruption Section, Mr. King was assigned to the Special Prosecutions Section. There, in addition to handling corruption cases, he was also responsible for the investigation and prosecution of complex financial crimes involving fraud and other white-collar offenses. In this capacity, Mr. King conducted investigations involving various frauds and thefts, including Ponzi schemes, commercial kickbacks, and tax and bankruptcy frauds. For example, Mr. King directed an FBI investigation into the conduct of several employees of a major manufacturer of medical devices, who devised and carried out a scheme to steal devices from their employer and local hospitals and then to sell these devices, for millions of dollars, in a diversionary market.

Mr. King also served as an instructor at the US Department of Justice National Advocacy Center for seminars on evidence and complex narcotics cases. In June 1997, Attorney General Janet Reno awarded him the Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service. Mr. King has also served as an adjunct professor of trial advocacy and head coach of the National Trial Advocacy Team at Northwestern University School of Law.

Martindale-Hubbell rates Mr. King AV, its highest rating, a measure of peer recognition for ethical standards and legal ability. He has been named an Illinois Super Lawyer, as the result of research projects conducted jointly by Law & Politics and Chicago magazines.