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Patrick W. Daniels is a founding partner of the Firm and the global director of business development. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley, cum laude, and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Diego School of Law.
Mr. Daniels advises hundreds of public and multi-employer pension funds, fund managers, insurance companies and banks around the world on issues related to corporate fraud in the U.S. securities markets and "best practices" in the corporate governance of publicly traded companies. He has represented dozens of institutional investors in some of the largest and most significant shareholder actions in the United States, including, UBS, Enron, WorldCom, AOL Time Warner and BP, to name just a few.
Mr. Daniels leads the Firm's cooperative efforts and joint ventures with outside independent advisors to provide advice and counsel to major investors in the United States markets. As part of these joint ventures, Mr. Daniels works very closely with political and financial leaders throughout the world to advise national and state government pension funds, central banks and fund managers in the United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Netherlands, and in other countries within the European Union. In 2008, the Editorial Board of the preeminent legal publisher in California named Mr. Daniels one of the 20 most influential lawyers in the State under 40 years of age.
In advancing international standards on human rights, Mr. Daniels was a lead counsel in an international coalition of attorneys and human rights groups that won a historic settlement with major United States clothing retailers and manufacturers, including The Gap, Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan and Calvin Klein, on behalf of a class of over 50,000 predominantly female Chinese garment workers on the island of Saipan in an action seeking to hold the Saipan garment industry responsible for creating a system of indentured servitude and forced labor in the island's garment factories. The coalition obtained an unprecedented agreement for supervision of working conditions in the Saipan factories by an independent NGO, as well as a substantial multi-million dollar compensation award for the workers.
Mr. Daniels is based in the Firm's headquarters in San Diego and is also a managing partner of the Firm's Manhattan office.
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