John H. Sturc is Co-Chair of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Securities Enforcement Practice Group.  He joined the Firm's Washington, D.C. office in 1990, where he focuses on securities and financial institutions enforcement matters, securities law, internal investigations, and criminal and civil litigation.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Sturc worked for eight years with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), six of those years as the Associate Director of the Division of Enforcement, the second-ranking official in that division.  He supervised investigations and litigation concerning all aspects of the federal securities laws, with principal emphasis upon insider trading, market manipulation, and financial disclosure violations.  Among Mr. Sturc's best-known matters were the commission's cases against Dennis Levine, Ivan Boesky, Martin Siegal, Michael Milken, and Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc.

Mr. Sturc previously served as Deputy Chief Litigation Counsel and as Assistant Chief Trial Attorney.  He also was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., where he had extensive experience as a trial and appellate attorney with civil and criminal cases, and led grand jury investigations.

Mr. Sturc has authored numerous publications dealing with enforcement of federal securities and banking laws.  He is a co-author of Civil RICO Litigation (1992), published by Prentice-Hall Law and  Business.  In 2010, Mr. Sturc was ranked as one of the top Securities Regulatory and Enforcement attorneys in the nation by Chambers USA America's Leading Business Lawyers and was listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Securities Law and was also ranked as one of Washington's Top Lawyers for securities law by Washingtonian Magazine in 2009.  He received the Presidential Award for Meritorious Executive Service in 1987 and is a frequent participant in continuing legal education programs concerning securities law and compliance, criminal law and banking law.

Mr. Sturc is a member of the American Bar Association Sections of Business Law, Litigation, and Criminal Justice, and is a member of the National Advisory Board, the SEC Institute, Inc.  He was previously the vice president of the Assistant United States Attorneys Association in the District of Columbia.  He is a member of the bar of the District of Columbia, and is admitted to practice before the following courts:  United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia; United States District Court, District of Columbia; United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; United States District Court for the District of Maryland; District of Columbia Court of Appeals; and District of Columbia Superior Court.

Mr. Sturc received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1975, graduating cum laude, and his bachelor of arts from Cornell University in 1972, where he graduated summa cum laude.