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Daniel G. Swanson Partner Daniel G. Swanson is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, with offices in Los Angeles and Brussels. Mr. Swanson, who co-chairs Gibson Dunn’s highly-regarded Antitrust and Competition Practice Group, is a trial and appellate litigator. His practice focuses on U.S. and international antitrust and competition law, including trial and appellate litigation, class actions, criminal investigations and cartel defense, merger review and government civil investigations, regulatory and competition policy matters, and antitrust counseling. Mr. Swanson is a member of the California and Brussels Bars, and is a solicitor of England and Wales and of the Republic of Ireland. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1984 and holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, where he was a Harvard Teaching Fellow. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit and the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth and Tenth Circuits. He is also qualified to appear before the Courts of the European Union. Chambers USA has reported that “Daniel Swanson has a vast amount of antitrust expertise covering everything from merger investigations to civil and criminal litigation” and has described him as “a highly regarded trial lawyer with a wealth of experience” and as “a ‘tough opponent’ in civil and criminal litigation, alleged cartel matters and IP-related issues.” Who’s Who Legal comments that “Daniel Swanson is a leading competition litigator whose ‘economics PhD is part of what makes him an outstanding attorney,’” and who “scores very highly for his ‘tenacious and persuasive’ litigation practice across a wide range of competition matters.” The Legal 500 places him in a small group of Leading Lawyers for U.S. antitrust and class action litigation. Benchmark Litigation Guide ranks Mr. Swanson as an Antitrust “National Star” and as a California “Litigation Star,” and he has been listed as one of the Best Lawyers in America in both Antitrust Law and Antitrust Litigation. He has twice been named Best Lawyers’ “Lawyer of the Year” for Antitrust Law and Litigation in Los Angeles, most recently in 2016. Mr. Swanson frequently represents clients in connection with antitrust grand jury investigations, and with regard to amnesty, leniency and immunity applications in the United States and the European Union, U.K., Canada, Japan, Australia, and Latin America, including more than 25 international cartel investigations during the last 15 years. Mr. Swanson has served as a Non-Governmental Advisor (NGA) to the Cartels Working Group of the International Competition Network (ICN) and has participated in Annual ICN Meetings in Cape Town, South Africa, Sydney, Australia, Singapore and New Delhi. In 2010, he was invited as part of a joint IBA-ABA delegation to advise the Competition Commission of India on “best practices” in cartel enforcement. Mr. Swanson’s litigation practice has encompassed virtually every aspect of antitrust and competition law. He has litigated claims of alleged price fixing, monopolization and market dominance, predation, leveraging, bundling, standard setting, tying, exclusive dealing, group boycotts, refusals to deal, and price discrimination, among others, and has handled scores of class action lawsuits (e.g., In re Electronic Books Antitrust Litigation, In re Air Cargo Shipping Services Antitrust Litigation, In re Interest Rate Swaps Antitrust Litigation, In re Rubber Chemicals Antitrust Litigation, In re Monochloroacetic Acid Antitrust Litigation, In re Fresh and Process Potatoes Antitrust Litigation, In re Hydrogen Peroxide Antitrust Litigation, In re Polyurethane Foam Antitrust Litigation, In re Automotive Refinishing Paint Litigation, In re Airline Ticket Commission Antitrust Litigation). Mr. Swanson also counsels clients on mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, and handles merger-clearance matters before the FTC, DOJ, CMA and European Commission, and represents clients in merger-related civil litigation.