Thursday, September 24th, 8 am Pacific / 11 am Eastern
Our special guest this week, Ethan P. Davis Vice President, Head of Global Litigation Strategy | Meta Legal,
will present on:
How to Negotiate With Government Regulators
This webinar will address how to negotiate with and resolve complex matters with government regulators. We’ll cover overlapping jurisdictions, competing timelines, and audiences that extend well beyond the negotiating table. This session will explore how experienced practitioners navigate these complexities: when and whether to engage regulators before an investigation formally materializes, how to manage the distinct — and sometimes conflicting — incentives of federal and state agencies pursuing the same conduct, and what changes when international authorities enter the picture with their own procedural frameworks and political dynamics.
We'll also examine negotiations where the resolution isn't purely legal — where communications strategy, public policy positioning, and stakeholder management become as consequential as the regulatory outcome itself. Whether you're sequencing across multiple enforcement tracks or deciding how much to say before anyone has asked, the through-line is the same: the best outcomes belong to teams that treat government negotiations as a multi-dimensional problem, not a single bilateral exchange.
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Our presenter:
Ethan P. Davis
Ethan Davis is Vice President, Head of Global Litigation Strategy at Meta Platforms. In that role, he helps oversee the company’s overall strategies to address litigation and enforcement actions in the United States and around the world. Ethan’s responsibilities also include the defense of investigations commenced by Congress, the FTC, DOJ, the SEC, and state Attorneys General. Before joining Meta, Ethan was a white-collar partner at King & Spalding in San Francisco, where he represented companies and individuals in civil litigation and civil and criminal government investigations.
Earlier in his career, Ethan served as the acting Assistant Attorney General in charge of the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Division, where he oversaw the lion’s share of the federal government’s civil litigation as well as the Civil Division’s affirmative enforcement efforts. Ethan clerked for Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain on the Ninth Circuit, and Justice Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Yale Law School.
Offered by Will Work For Food, founded by Natalie Armstrong-Motin, and moderated by Kimberly Best, Felicia Harris Hoss, Jeff Kichaven, Jean Lawler, and David Shraga.
This worldwide conversation will be like nothing else. Join in! Share, learn, have fun, and raise money for food banks.