Law360, The American Lawyer, The National Law Journal, Bloomberg Law, Commercial Dispute Resolution, Global Legal Chronicle and Richmond BizSense were among the media outlets covering the arrival of partner Daniel P. Bubar, who joined McGuireWoods’ nationally recognized Government Investigations & White Collar Litigation Department in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Richmond, Virginia.
Bubar is a veteran federal prosecutor who held senior leadership roles in U.S. attorney’s offices in North Carolina and Virginia. He served as acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina from February 2025 to August 2025. Before that, he was the office’s first assistant. He also held senior roles in the U.S. attorney’s office in the Western District of Virginia and served as acting U.S. attorney in that district from September 2020 to October 2021 and first assistant from 2018 to December 2021.
In a Nov. 20, 2025, story, Law360 noted that Bubar’s move to McGuireWoods reunites him with Raleigh partner Michael F. Easley Jr., who served as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina before returning to McGuireWoods in March 2025. Bubar joins top-tier federal prosecutors who joined McGuireWoods in 2025, including Easley, former U.S. Attorneys Ryan K. Buchanan in Atlanta and Eric Olshan in Pittsburgh, and former Assistant U.S. Attorney Natasha Cooper in Atlanta.
“I’ve hopefully built a reputation of credibility and fairness having worked closely with a lot of different law enforcement agencies and U.S. attorneys and U.S. attorneys’ offices, and draw upon that, those relationships and that experience, to now help advise clients and help them in matters that would be adverse to the government,” Bubar said in an interview with Law360.
Jason Cowley, chair of McGuireWoods’ Government Investigations & White Collar Litigation Department, told Law360 that Bubar’s practice fits with the enforcement trends in areas such as healthcare fraud and False Claims Act matters.
“And these are all things that Dan knows very well, that he’s had historical cases in,” Cowley said.