Daniel J. Dorward***

Associate

Dan Dorward practices primarily in the areas of antitrust, intellectual property and other commercial litigation.

He has experience representing clients in complex litigations, criminal and regulatory investigations and other adversarial proceedings.  In the antitrust area, he has represented clients in connection with criminal Sherman Act and civil treble damages actions.  He has also represented U.S. and foreign clients in the oil and gas, mining, beer and alcohol, pharmaceuticals and electronics industries concerning merger clearance issues in the United States and Europe and has coordinated worldwide merger clearance filings for multi-national transactions.  His litigation experience includes representations of plaintiffs and defendants in a wide range of complex commercial disputes and infringement actions in the courts as well as in ICC and U.S. arbitrations.

Representative matters include:

• Represented a foreign airline in connection with the Department of Justice’s criminal Sherman Act investigation of price fixing of air cargo rates and passenger fares and in connection with follow-on private class actions seeking treble damages for alleged price fixing of passenger fuel surcharges.
• Represented a major petroleum company in a complex commercial arbitration concerning breach of contract and fraud claims in excess $400 million.
• Represented a steel company in an international breach of contract dispute among American, Japanese and Korean parties concerning the fabrication and erection of the Third Tacoma Narrows Suspension Bridge.
• Represented a British carbon products company and its U.S. subsidiaries in connection with criminal price-fixing and obstruction of justice charges brought by the Department of Justice.

Prior to joining AV&H, Dan practiced in the Washington, D.C. and London, England offices of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in that firm’s Litigation group.

Clerkships

• Law clerk to the Honorable Jay C. Waldman, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1998-1999.

Bar & Court Admissions

• Not licensed to practice in Connecticut
• District of Columbia
• Maryland

Education

• University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D. 1998, Magna Cum Laude, Order of the Coif, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law, Senior Editor
• Cornell University, A.B. 1994, with distinction

Publications

• The Forum Non Conveniens Doctrine and the Judicial Protection of Multinational Corporations from Forum Shopping Plaintiffs, 19 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law 141 (1998)