Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• Hebrew

Lawyer Overview

A 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 is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and is listed in Chambers Global and Chambers USA.

Mr. Beller has litigated and tried significant cases for major institutional and individual clients of the firm in federal and state courts and arbitrations throughout the United States. Some of his trials include:

• 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 attorneys 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 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 for whom Mr. Beller has litigated and tried scores of cases include, most recently, Gambro Healthcare; Sumitomo Corporation; Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Morgan Stanley & Co.; Oak Hill Capital; 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 money laundering, official corruption, commercial bribery, violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, government procurement fraud, income tax evasion and fraud, price fixing, mail and wire fraud and insider trading, and First Amendment issues, among others. He is regularly retained to provide counseling on internal compliance and internal corporate investigations.

Mr. Beller is a member of the Federal Bar Council and the New York Council of Defense Lawyers, and is a member of the National Commission of the Anti-Defamation League, Vice-Chair of ADL's New York Regional Board, Chair of its International Affairs Committee and former Chair of its Lawyers' Division and Religious Freedom Task Force.

Mr. Beller graduated, magna cum laude, from Harvard College (1968) and received a J.D. degree from The 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).

Areas of Practice

• Intellectual Property
• Litigation

West Practice Categories

Intellectual Property Law, Litigation & Appeals

Bar Admissions

• New York, 1973
• District of Columbia, 1984
• U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1978
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 1978
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1987
• U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit
• U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia

Professional Associations and Memberships

• The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member)
• Federal Bar Council (Member)
• Yale Law School Fund, 1988 - Present (Trustee)
• New York Council of Defense Lawyers (Member)
• National Commission of the Anti-Defamation League (Member)
• New York Regional Board (Vice-Chair of ADL)
• New York Regional Board (Chair of its International Affairs Committee)
• New York Regional Board (former Chair of its Lawyers' Division and Religious Freedom Task Force)

Past Employment Positions

• Hon. Irving R. Kaufman, Chief Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit, Law Clerk, 1972 - 1973
• United States Department of State, 1973 - 1974
• United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, Assistant United States Attorney, 1974 - 1978
• United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, Chief of the Major Crimes unit, 1977 - 1978

Education

• Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, 1972
  J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence
  
  Law Journal: Yale Law Journal, Editor
• Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968
  B.A., Bachelor of Arts
  Honors: magna cum laude

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