Avocats – United States

Daniel McKenna

Partner and Practice Co-Leader of the firm's Consumer Financial Services Group

Ballard Spahr LLP

Daniel McMillan

Partner

Jones Day

Daniel McQueen

Partner

ArentFox Schiff

Daniel Meron

Daniel Meron, Co-Chair of the Healthcare Services & Providers Industry Group and a former high-level official at both the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services, represents healthcare industry leaders in high-stakes government disputes. He served previously as Global Co-Chair of the firm’s Healthcare & Life Sciences Practice Group. Daniel leverages an unmatched understanding of the subtleties inherent in litigation involving the DOJ and HHS to represent plans; providers; PBMs; specialty pharmacies; and pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device manufacturers in: False Claims Act (FCA) and related civil investigations Legal challenges to the validity of agency regulations and policies Providing sophisticated compliance counseling Daniel joined Latham from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where he served as General Counsel from 2006 to 2007. He advised department leadership on sensitive and high-priority matters involving all of the key statutes and regulations that HHS enforces, including the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Medicare and Medicaid statutes, as well as the federal Anti-Kickback Statute. As General Counsel, Daniel also worked closely with the Office of Inspector General to coordinate positions on enforcement matters relating to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) statutes and regulations. From 2003 to 2006, Daniel was the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the US Department of Justice’s Civil Division. He oversaw healthcare civil fraud (FCA) and off-label promotion prosecutions, as well as defense of FDA and CMS regulations, policies, and reimbursement decisions. Daniel served as a law clerk to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the US Supreme Court and to Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.

Latham & Watkins

Daniel Michael

Partner

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Daniel Michaelson

Partner, New York

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Daniel Miktus

Partner, Real Estate Construction

Akerman LLP

Daniel Moffett

Daniel L. Moffett’s practice encompasses all aspects of intellectual property (IP) procurement and protection, with a focus on complex patent, trade secret and trademark litigation. He has served as lead technical counsel in cases involving claims of patent infringement, antitrust violations and theft of trade secrets. He also has first-chair experience representing clients before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in inter partes review proceedings. PTAB review, including the effect of PTAB decisions in district court proceedings, is a rapidly changing area affecting patent litigation. Daniel’s experience helps him provide clients with the best strategy for navigating parallel PTAB and district court proceedings. He represents a diverse group of clients, including clients in the medical device, biotechnology, animal genetics, digital communications, database software, Internet software, retail grocery, restaurant and entertainment industries. In addition to district court and patent office litigation, Daniel’s practice includes prosecution of trademark applications; licensing and assignment of patents, trademarks, copyrights and other intellectual property. To learn more about Daniel, please visit his profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/daniel-l-moffett.html

Akin

Daniel Muino

Daniel Muino | Morrison Foerster Dan is an intellectual property litigator and trial lawyer with more than two decades of experience litigating patent, trade secret, and copyright matters in federal courts around the country and at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). He is co-lead of the firm’s ITC Working Group and an editor of the MoFo@ITC guide to Section 337 investigations. Dan has led litigation and trial teams in complex IP cases. Most recently, he led the trial team in a confidential arbitration involving complex semiconductor fabrication technology. He was first-chair trial counsel at an ITC trial defending chipmaker Renesas against Broadcom’s patent infringement allegations, which resulted in a complete victory for Renesas before the judge, the Commission, and the Federal Circuit. In the closely-watched Waymo v. Uber autonomous vehicle trade secret litigation, Dan helped lead the technology team defending Uber against Waymo’s claims. He also served as trial counsel at a patent jury trial that resulted in a verdict in favor of client Microscan against competitor Cognex. He managed the trial team for Oracle in its IP lawsuit against Google over the Android operating system, and managed the trial team for Novell in a jury trial that resulted in a complete win against SCO’s claims concerning the ownership of the UNIX copyrights.

Morrison Foerster

Daniel Mullen

Dan Mullen, chair of Steptoe's Energy group, counsels clients on energy and commodities enforcement matters and government investigations and litigation, and assists clients with the development of energy regulatory compliance programs. Dan focuses on defending clients in investigations by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Prior to joining Steptoe, Dan served as a Division of Investigations Branch Chief within the Office of Enforcement at FERC. In this position, he helped develop FERC's current enforcement regime and oversaw and conducted investigations and litigations against companies participating in the wholesale electricity and natural gas markets. Dan focused on investigations concerning energy market manipulation, reliability and violations of FERC-jurisdictional statutes, regulations and tariffs. Dan is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, presenting on issues related to energy and commodity enforcement defense.

Steptoe LLP

Daniel Mun

Daniel Mun advises private equity firms, as well as public and private companies, on a wide range of complex corporate transactions. Daniel represents clients on mergers and other business combinations, including acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, restructurings, equity investments, as well as corporate governance matters. Daniel has significant experience advising clients in a wide range of sectors, including construction, industrials, financial services, technology, manufacturing, franchising, and retail.

Latham & Watkins

Daniel Murphy

Partner

Loeb & Loeb LLP

Daniel Nam

Partner

King & Spalding

Daniel Nelson

Daniel W. Nelson practices in the Litigation Department as co-chair of the Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort Practice Group, and he is a member of the Class Action and Complex Litigation, Antitrust and Trade Regulation, and Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Groups. Dan has a national complex litigation practice. He has served as the lead defense counsel for clients in the courts of more than 30 states, and he has defended more than 200 class action lawsuits, including as lead trial counsel in securing a defense verdict in a certified class action jury trial. He has represented clients at the trial and appellate levels in cases that span a wide range of areas, with a particular focus on environmental and mass tort litigation, complex business litigation, antitrust litigation, and class action litigation.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Daniel Nester

Partner - Litigation and Investigations

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Daniel Nussen

Partner

White & Case LLP

Daniel Oakes

Partner

Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider

Daniel Oshinsky

Daniel V. Oshinsky represents hedge funds, private equity funds, asset managers, specialty finance companies and investment banks in a wide range of financing transactions. Dan has particular expertise in liquidity facilities and structured credits, including CLOs, CBOs, warehouse lines, leveraged finance vehicles, capital call facilities and fund-of-fund loans. Dan’s practice also encompasses a variety of other secured and unsecured finance transactions, both on the borrower and lender side, including cash-flow and asset-based loans, acquisition financing, Term B loans, unitranche loans, mezzanine and subordinate loans, distressed debt investments, workout and restructuring transactions, debtor-in-possession and exit financings, cross-border transactions and other complex credit arrangements Dan has been recognized as a leader in his field by The Legal 500 US and New York Super Lawyers. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Yeshiva University in 1991 and his J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he was associate editor of the Review of Law and Social Change, in 1995.

McDermott Will & Schulte

Daniel P. Strzalka

Partner

Nixon Peabody LLP

Daniel Pereira

Partner

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP

Daniel Perlman

Daniel Perlman is a partner in the Real Estate Group in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He has extensive experience in advising pension funds and their advisors, national developers, foreign institutions, public and private REITs as well as investment banks and hedge funds on real estate fund and venture formations, loan workouts, sales and purchases of distressed loans, securitized, conventional and mezzanine financings, commercial development, and commercial acquisitions and dispositions.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Daniel Phillips

Dan joined the firm as a summer associate in 2010, and was elevated to Shareholder in 2020. Dan currently focuses his practice primarily in the area of mergers and acquisitions, and advises clients across various industries in acquisitions and sales of public and private companies and their assets, mergers, joint ventures and financing transactions. He also assists clients on an ongoing basis with general corporate matters, including Exchange Act reporting and corporate governance. Dan has particular experience representing physician practice groups, private equity sponsors, management services organizations, ambulatory surgery centers, hospitals and diagnostic imaging centers in connection with physician employment agreements, practice management arrangements, regulatory compliance and other business activities.

Hallett & Perrin, PC

Daniel Posner

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP

Daniel Poynor

Partner

Steptoe LLP