Daniel F. C. Crowley

Practice Areas

Dan Crowley is a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. His practice is focused on public policy issues relating to financial services and capital markets, and he leads the firm’s global financial services policy practice. In the decade before joining K&L Gates, he led the government relations efforts at the Investment Company Institute, The Nasdaq Stock Market, and the National Association of Securities Dealers. Previously, he served for eight years in the U.S. House of Representatives in increasingly senior staff positions including general counsel, Office of the Speaker. Dan was a President George W. Bush appointee at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He is nationally ranked for government relations by Chambers USA (2015-2022), and he is a member of the Economic Club of Washington, D.C.

Professional Memberships

Economic Club of Washington, D.C.

American Bar Association Business Law Section Federal Regulation of Securities Committee

Exchequer Club of Washington, D.C.

Women in Housing & Finance

Republican National Lawyers Association

U.S. Army Reserve, Military Police Corps, Honorable Discharge, 1986

Publications

“Rescuing ESG from the Culture Wars,” Harvard Business Review, 9 February 2023

Quoted, “A 'fiduciary question' looms large over the ESG debate in 2023,” S&P Global and SNL Metals & Mining Daily: East Edition, 26 January 2023

“Turning Down the Heat on the ESG Debate: Separating Material Risk Disclosures from Salient Political Issues,” Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, 1 September 2022

"Takeaways And Next Steps After FSOC's Climate Risk Report," Law360, 22 November 2021

Education