Practice Areas
Clerkships
- Honorable Chief Judge Janet C. Hall, United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
Education
J.D., magna cum laude, New York University School of Law, 2016
- Order of the Coif
- Allen Scholar
- Staff/Development Editor, Annual Survey of American Law
B.A., with Distinction, Yale University, 2011
Bar & Court Admissions
- New York, 2017
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
Dan is an experienced litigator and focuses on resolving complex business disputes, litigating in federal and state courts as well as arbitration and mediation proceedings. Counseling clients in sectors ranging from real estate to financial services in an array of matters, he has wide experience with disputes relating to corporate governance, commercial contracts, and mergers and acquisitions. Dan’s vast experience drafting pleadings and dispositive motions, preparing witnesses, taking and defending depositions, and managing discovery firmly positions clients to win at trial.
Prior to joining Olshan, Dan was a litigation associate at Freedman Normand Friedland LLP and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. Before that, he clerked for the Honorable Chief Judge Janet C. Hall, United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.
Dan received his J.D. magna cum laude from New York University School of Law in 2016. He served as both Staff Editor and Development Editor of the Annual Survey of American Law, and was Order of the Coif. Dan holds a B.A. with Distinction from Yale University in 2011.
- Represented a group of individuals in a mass arbitration regarding the theft of their crypto-assets from their accounts on a major exchange.
- Represented a putative class in an action alleging that a prominent stablecoin had manipulated the crypto-asset market.
- Successfully opposed class certification in connection with factoring agreements.
- Co-lead attorney representing co-founder of real estate company in partnership dispute, resulting in a favorable negotiated resolution.
- Successfully representing a leading private equity firm in a ten-day trial in Delaware Chancery Court responding to allegations that they had mismanaged a portfolio company to the detriment of the company’s common shareholders
- Representing an ad-hoc committee of bondholders in litigation arising from a sovereign default
- Representing young adults in New York State prisons in connection with a consent decree mandating that they be provided the education they are entitled to
- Counseling a private equity firm in connection with ex-employees’ violation of their non-competition agreements
- Representing a startup healthcare company in a contract dispute with their principal vendor
- Representing a company’s director in connection with allegations of misdeeds by the company’s former CEO
- Evaluating and valuing numerous litigations, arbitrations, and adversary proceedings in connection with potential investments by a litigation funder