Biography: Business Crime Defence

Mr Muller is a member of Davis Polk's litigation department, its white-collar criminal defence and investigations group and the firm's global compliance and investigations group. He represented Siemens AG in its landmark settlements of corruption matters and is currently representing a wide variety of companies and boards on transnational issues, including corruption, trade sanctions, money laundering and tax.

From October 2002 to July 2004, he served as general counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency, and from 1979 to 1982 he served as an assistant US attorney for the Southern District of New York.

He pioneered the use of the corporate "deferred prosecution" to resolve a federal criminal investigation, and has advised numerous domestic and foreign companies, boards and board committees on matters relating to compliance, regulatory and criminal enforcement. A former vice chairman of the ABA's white-collar crime committee, he has lectured widely and taught criminal investigations at Georgetown University Law Center as an adjunct professor.

Mr Muller clerked for the Watergate Special Prosecution Force and the Honorable Francis L Van Dusen, US Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Mr Muller has handled numerous internal investigations, and has represented and advised financial and industrial companies in matters before the US Department of Justice, the SEC and financial regulators in the US and elsewhere. His recent representations include: Siemens AG, Morgan Stanley & Co and others in corruption investigations; Roche Holdings in criminal and civil antitrust proceedings relating to the vitamins industry; Prudential Securities and Prudential Insurance in numerous matters relating to, among other matters, the sale of over $3 billion in real estate, oil and gas and other limited partnerships; Warner Lambert (now owned by Pfizer) in criminal investigations relating to drug marketing and environmental compliance; Texaco in civil, criminal and derivative matters relating to a civil rights matter; and law firms and accounting firms in accounting and professional liability matters.

Mr Muller is listed as a leading lawyer in several legal industry publications, including Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, The Legal 500 US, Legal Media Group's Benchmark Litigation, Practical Law Company's Which Lawyer?, and Law Business Research's The International Who's Who of Business Crime Defence Lawyers.

Mr Muller received his BA from Princeton University in 1971 (cum laude) and his JD from Georgetown University Law Center in 1975. He joined Davis Polk in 1976 and was partner from 1985 to 2002, rejoining as a partner following his stretch as general counsel for the CIA.