Patrick W. Daniels

Patrick Daniels is a member of the Firm’s Management Committee.  He counsels private and state government pension funds, central banks and fund managers in the United States and internationally.

Patrick W. Daniels is a founding partner of the Firm and the global director of business development.

Mr. Daniels is widely recognized as a leading corporate governance and investor advocate. The Daily Journal, the leading legal publisher in California, named Mr. Daniels one of the 20 most influential lawyers in California under 40 years of age. And Yale School of Management’s Millstein Center for Corporate Governance & Performance awarded Mr. Daniels its “Rising Star of Corporate Governance” for his outstanding leadership in shareholder advocacy and activism.

Mr. Daniels is an advisor to political and financial leaders throughout the world. He counsels private and state government pension funds and fund managers in the United States, Australia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, the Netherlands and other countries within the European Union on issues related to corporate fraud in the United States securities markets and “best practices” in the corporate governance of publicly traded companies. Mr. Daniels 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.

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 at the Firm’s headquarters in San Diego and is frequently resident in the Firm's Manhattan office.