A senior partner in the Litigation Department, Daniel J. Beller has had extensive experience handling complex civil and criminal matters, including antitrust, securities, real estate and general commercial litigation, government enforcement matters, internal corporate investigations and compliance and white collar criminal defense. He was elected as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers in 1998 and consistently has been recognized as an outstanding lawyer by Chambers Global, Chambers USA, New York Super Lawyers and other publications.

Mr. Beller has litigated and tried significant cases for major institutional and individual clients in federal and state courts and arbitrations throughout the United States, including:

• AIG Global Real Estate, LLC v. ECRA GP, Inc. (Morgan Properties), Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (obtained preliminary injunction and successful settlement in major real estate partnership dispute);
• Vail Resorts, Inc. v. American Ski Corp. et al., Denver County, Colorado (defeated motion for preliminary injunction seeking to prevent the closing of the sale of ski resort);
• Cuti v. Duane Reade Holdings, et al., United States v. Cuti and Tennant, SEC v. Cuti and Tennant (defense of client in arbitration initiated by terminated CEO; cooperation with DOJ and SEC in criminal and civil cases against former CEO and company officer);
• Monahan v. Caxton-Iseman Capital, et al., New York Supreme Court (successful defense of client and its CEO in sexual harassment suit and initiation of criminal prosecution against plaintiff, a former employee, resulting in guilty plea and recantation of all allegations against client);
• Ginsburg v. Gambro AB and Cobe Laboratories, Inc., Circuit Court, Broward County, Florida (successful defense of action for securities fraud and breach of fiduciary duty before Florida jury);
• Black v. Sumitomo Corporation, Southern District of New York (settlement after trial resulting in dismissal of all claims and payment of attorney's fees and costs by plaintiff);
• Reuters Inc. v. Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. and Market Data Corporation ($250 million breach of contract arbitration);
• F.T.C. v. B.A.T.Industries (upholding, at trial and on appeal, a major paper company acquisition against novel government antitrust challenge);
• Pennzoil v. Texaco, Getty, United States District Court, Tulsa, Oklahoma (antitrust, preliminary injunction trial);
• Sindona v. Fisher, United States District Court, Southern District of New York (successful defense of attorney in malpractice action);
• Pross v. Katz, et al., New York Supreme Court (successful defense of major real estate owners against claims by alleged partner);
• Nacional Financiera, et al. v. Union Capital Partners, Southern District of Florida (defeated effort to enjoin $500 million corporate acquisition); and
• Reynolds v. Goord, United States District Court, Southern District of New York (successful challenge to coercive New York State prison tuberculosis control program).

In addition, Mr. Beller was lead counsel in approximately 10 jury trials, all resulting in convictions, as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York.

Major clients Mr. Beller has represented include Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Oak Hill Capital Partners; Caxton-Iseman Capital Partners; AIG Global Real Estate; Duane Reade Inc.; Sumitomo Corporation; Citigroup; Mitsubishi Corporation; Oaktree Capital Management; American Ski Corporation; Bicent Power LLC; Cargill, Inc.; Bell Atlantic; and Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. The range of civil matters he has handled has included practically every type of case including securities fraud, insider trading, RICO, securities manipulation, mergers, antitrust, contract, tort, mortgage foreclosure and real estate litigation, intellectual property and bankruptcy. He also concentrates in representing corporate and individual clients in criminal and government enforcement investigations and has successfully handled cases involving alleged price-fixing, money laundering, official corruption, commercial bribery, violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, government procurement fraud, income tax evasion and fraud, mail and wire fraud and insider trading, and First Amendment issues, among others. He regularly counsels and represents clients on internal compliance and corporate investigations and the firm on professional responsibility matters.

Mr. Beller is an active participant in community and professional activities. He serves as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, a member of the Federal Bar Council and the New York Council of Defense Lawyers, a Trustee of the Jewish Theological Seminary, a Commissioner of the National Commission of the Anti-Defamation League and former Vice-Chair of ADL's New York Regional Board, Chair of its International Affairs Committee and Chair of its Lawyers' Division and Religious Freedom Task Force. He received the Torch of Learning Award from the American Friends of the Hebrew University in 2001 and the Human Relations Award from the Anti-Defamation League, Lawyers Division, in 1996.

Mr. Beller graduated, magna cum laude, from Harvard College (1968) and received his J.D. from Yale Law School (1972), where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. Mr. Beller served as a law clerk to the Honorable Irving R. Kaufman, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Beller undertook a Special Assignment for the United States Department of State (1973-74), and served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (1974-78), where he was Chief of the Major Crimes unit (1977-78).