Daniel Fridman

Practice Areas

Dan has led some of the largest corporate investigations in Latin America, including:

-- An accounting fraud investigation in Brazil of a U.S.-listed public company that resulted in a $100 million restatement of financial results. The Securities and Exchange Commission closed its investigation without taking any enforcement action.

-- A Foreign Corrupt Practices Act internal investigation of a Brazilian multinational company involving the payment of over $120 million in bribes to Brazilian politicians.

-- A Foreign Corrupt Practices Act internal investigation of a major Argentine company implicated in the chauffeur’s notebooks “cuadernos” bribery scandal.

He also focuses his practice on representing companies and individuals facing criminal or civil cases brought by the U.S. Department of Justice, including False Claims Act cases and Anti-Kickback Statute investigations.

Career

He is a former Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General of the United States and was Special Counsel for Health Care Fraud at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, DC. He advised the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General in the George W. Bush Administration on national healthcare fraud enforcement policy, and he testified before the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives committees on law enforcement issues.