David Mitchell
Deputy General Counsel, Labor & Employment at Balyasny Asset Management L.P.
David Mitchell is Deputy General Counsel, Labor and Employment at Balyasny Asset Management. Previously he worked at Hogan Lovells for over 8 years. In his role as an employment attorney, he advises on a variety of matters, including internal investigations, wage and hour issues, restrictive covenants, employment agreement negotiations, and personnel policies. David was selected as a 2019 Council of Urban Professionals Fellow and a 2017 New City Bar Associate Leadership Institute Fellow. He is a board member of My Brother’s Keeper / My Sister’s Keeper, an organization devoted to promoting fellowship in support of Black attorneys. David is also a founding member of the Black BigLaw Pipeline, a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing the number of Black associates who successfully navigate BigLaw. He attended New York University for his undergraduate studies and received his J.D. from Vanderbilt Law.