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.