Daniel B. Listwa is an attorney in Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz’s Litigation Department. Daniel represents clients in state and federal court at both the trial and appellate levels. His practice focuses on complex commercial and corporate litigation. Representative matters include successfully representing the leading Ethereum software developer in pathmarking litigation against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; defending a major regional bank against a hostile takeover attempt by the bank’s charitable trust majority owner; and securing a remedial constructive trust on behalf of two healthcare companies following a successful trial in the Delaware Court of Chancery.
In addition to his litigation practice, Daniel writes and speaks on issues of statutory interpretation, conflict of laws, corporate law, and administrative law. His scholarship has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, Texas Law Review, Fordham Law Review, and Yale Journal on Regulation, among others, and has been cited by trial and appellate courts, federal agencies, casebooks, and treatises, including Wright & Miller’s Federal Practice & Procedure, Sutherland Statutes & Statutory Construction, and Hazen’s Law of Securities Regulation. He has been a contributor to the Green Bag Journal of Law, Yale Journal on Regulation’s Notice & Comment Blog, and the Transnational Litigation Blog. He is also a non-resident fellow of the Yale Law School Center for Private Law.
Daniel received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an Articles & Essays Editor of the Yale Law Journal and a Managing Editor of the Yale Journal of Law & Humanities. There he was the recipient of such awards as the Felix S. Cohen Prize in Legal Philosophy and the Judge Ralph K. Winter, Jr. Prize in Law and Economics. He received his M.A. with First Class Honors in Philosophy and Public Affairs from University College Dublin, as the recipient of a prestigious George J. Mitchell Scholarship. Daniel received a B.A. summa cum laude in Philosophy-Economics and Business Management from Columbia University where he was a John Jay Scholar and the recipient of multiple academic awards, including the Albert Asher Green Memorial Prize, awarded to the graduating senior with the highest academic record.
Daniel clerked for the Honorable Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the Honorable Debra Ann Livingston of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.