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Daniel
Lewis
Partner
Education
Yale Law School, J.D.
Columbia College, B.A., magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa
Practice
Daniel Lewis, a partner in the firm’s Litigation Group, concentrates on the representation of global financial institutions in complex securities class action, M&A litigation and regulatory matters, as well as in commercial litigation involving financial products, derivatives and ERISA in federal and state courts. He also represents companies and officers and directors in complex securities class action and ERISA litigation, and regularly provides securities and other litigation advice to a wide range of corporate clients in the automotive, media, communications and other industries.
Experience
- Counsel to Countrywide Financial Corporation in ongoing institutional RMBS purchaser actions in state and federal courts across the United States, including litigations in nine different states filed against Countrywide Financial and related entities by institutional plaintiffs such as federal home loan banks, mutual and hedge funds, insurance companies and regional banks
- Counsel to underwriters, including clients such as Bank of America, Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse and dozens of others in separate securities class actions arising out of recent stock offerings of companies such as MF Global, Fifth Third Bank, Focus Media, EnergySolutions, Popular, Inc. (commonly known as Banco Popular) and Limelight Networks
- Counsel to Merrill Lynch in class action and other litigation arising from Enron’s collapse, including the historic rejection of “scheme liability” by the Fifth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court
- Counsel to Merrill Lynch in securities class action arising from alleged misrepresentations by MRU Holdings, Inc. regarding auction rate securities
- Counsel to Nomura International plc, Nomura Securities Co. Ltd. and Nomura Global Financial Products Inc. in actions brought by Lehman Brothers in U.S. Bankruptcy Court seeking to disallow their combined $1 billion in claims against the Lehman bankruptcy estates
- Counsel to Nomura International plc in litigation regarding the interpretation of bond indentures
- Counsel to Nokia in securities class action
- Counsel to Huntsman Corporation in contested merger litigation with Hexion Specialty Chemicals
- Counsel to Daimler AG in an ERISA-related class action
- Daimler AG in a fraudulent conveyance action by Chrysler’s creditors based on Daimler’s divestiture of 80% of its interest in Chrysler in a 2007 transaction with Cerberus Capital Partners
Bar Admissions/Qualifications
New York
District of Columbia
Courts
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
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