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David Schwartz-Leeper is Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Nielsen Media Research. He reports to Susan Whiting and is a member of the senior leadership team and serves as secretary of the company. David is based in New York.
David joined the Company as Vice President and Division Counsel in 1995. In 1996, he was named Vice President and General Counsel of the Company. He was appointed to his current position in March 2001. David's particular legal expertise is in the areas of antitrust, commercial contracts and corporate law. He oversees all legal matters relating to the business of Nielsen Media Research.
David began his legal career as an associate in 1983 at the New York law firm of Lord, Day & Lord. In 1986, he joined the New York law firm of Coudert Brothers, where he became a partner in 1994.
David received his JD from New York University School of Law in 1984. He received a BA, magna cum laude, from the University of Colorado. David was admitted to the bar in 1985 in the State of New York and the US District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; in 1986 in the US Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; in 1987 in the US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; in 1989 in the US Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; and in 1993 in the US Supreme Court, US Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, and the US Tax Court.
He is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the American Corporate Counsel Association, and has served on the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Committee (1996-1999) of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
David's publishing credits include the co-authoring of Transfer Pricing Under US Law in 1995, and he authored a regular series of articles regarding developments in U.S. antitrust law for, and served on the Editorial Board of, the London-based European Competition Law Review. | 