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Milbank Offices
55 HUDSON YARDS
NEW YORK, NY 10001
NEW YORK
United States
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Daniel Perry
Position
Partner, Litigation & Arbitration
Career
Mr. Perry is a seasoned trial lawyer representing clients in federal and state court in complex commercial disputes involving securities and corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, insurance and reinsurance, and financial restructuring. He has extensive experience managing disputes out of court and routinely conducts arbitrations before a variety of domestic and international tribunals. Mr. Perry also represents clients in a range of industries facing various regulatory and criminal investigations.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
Counting major financial institutions among its key roster of clients, Milbank handles a range of commercial disputes concerning breach of contract, in addition to business torts, such as fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and tortious interference with contractor prospective business relations. The New York-based team also has demonstrable experience advising on state and federal regulatory mandates. Global head of the firm’s litigation and arbitration practice, George Canellos jointly leads the team group alongside Daniel Perry, who focuses on disputes involving securities and corporate law, M&A, insurance and reinsurance, as well as financial restructuring issues. Scott Edelman’s ‘judgment is second to none and his advocacy is first-rate’, while David Gelfand is praised for his ‘impressive ability to dive deep’ into class actions, securities and bankruptcy litigation cases.
United States > Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
Milbank has a deep bench of experienced partners in New York, whose track record in some of the most influential, high-stakes, and high-profile cases ever brought under federal and state securities laws sees the firm climb the ranking. The firm frequently acts for issuers, underwriters, banks, broker-dealers, investment advisers, accounting firms, and individuals in securities class actions and derivative suits. Global head of litigation and arbitration George Canellos and practice group leader Daniel Perry oversee the firm’s securities litigation work, for which Sean Murphy is a standout partner. Murphy has tried most of the private securities cases to go to trial under the Investment Company Act of 1940 Act in the last 20 years, winning all of them. Firm chair Scott Edelman handles high-stakes litigation in diverse areas of law, including securities, commercial and white collar. David Gelfand and up-and-coming partners Jed Schwartz and Robert Hora are also key partners in the practice. Edelman, Gelfand and Hora are acting for AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company in eight cases in federal and state courts, including putative class actions, that challenge the company’s 2016 increase in the cost of insurance rates on a block of universal life insurance policies.
United States > Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
Praised for its ‘tremendous acumen’, Milbank assists clients in all facets of corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense, with many of its attorneys having held previous positions with regulatory and enforcement authorities. New York-based George Canellos and Daniel Perry, both experienced trial lawyers, jointly lead the practice alongside Nola Heller, also in New York, who arrived from Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP in September 2023. Adam Fee, who is active in the firm’s Los Angeles office, is a name to note for cross-border fraud and money laundering matters. Antonia Apps left the firm in January 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
- Securities litigation: defense United States > Dispute resolution
- General commercial disputes United States > Dispute resolution
- Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense United States > Dispute resolution
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Finance > Project finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Environment > Environment: transactional
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Antitrust > Cartel