Daniel L. Cantor
Partner
Daniel L. Cantor is a partner in O’Melveny’s New York office and a member of the Securities Litigation Practice. Dan has a broad range of experience representing entities of all sizes, as well as individuals, in general commercial litigation, including contract disputes, federal securities and common law fraud actions, regulatory investigations, corporate governance disputes, insurance and reinsurance coverage disputes, and employment matters.
In particular, Dan has extensive experience representing financial institutions in securities litigation, securities sales practice disputes, hiring/raiding disputes and employment disputes. Dan has appeared in state and federal courts and before various dispute resolution organizations.
Illustrative Professional Experience
- Representing a leading securities firm and its employees (including a retail broker and an equity research analyst) in two litigations and an arbitration asserting federal and state securities law claims arising out of the sale of FCC wireless licenses.
- Representing a major financial institution and its employees in litigations brought by public employee retirement/pension funds.
- Representing a top broker-dealer in federal and state litigations arising out of a former employee’s alleged participation in a Ponzi scheme created by a hedge fund.
- Representing former senior executive of a leading mutual fund complex in several nationwide class actions involving trading and sales practices in the mutual fund industry.
- Representing several major national broker-dealers, and their employees in various litigations and arbitrations brought by customers alleging securities fraud and/or sales practice violations.
- Representing a leading national broker-dealer in several NASD arbitrations brought by competitors alleging "raiding" and other improper hiring practices.
- Representing financial investors named as co-defendants with an issuer in a securities fraud litigation.
- Advising private equity firms and their employees in corporate governance matters, including advice as to duties of directors and controlling shareholders.
- Representing an equity research analyst from a leading financial institution in a regulatory investigation over the content of certain research reports.
- Representing the asset management affiliate of a leading financial institution in a contract dispute with another asset manager.
- Representing the manager of a hedge fund in a dispute with his former employer arising out of his move to a competing firm.
- Representing a private equity firm in a series of litigations involving a portfolio company arising out of the unwinding of an investment.
- Representing a nationally-known sports and entertainment company in a contract dispute with a former licensor.
- Representing a major reinsurance pool and several of its member companies in a dispute over reinsurance coverage for a billion dollar insurance settlement between a leading insurance company and an asbestos manufacturer.
Professional Activities
Admitted to Practice, US District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Member, Association of the Bar of the City of New York; American Bar Association (Litigation and Business Law sections); Federal Bar Council