Daniel Silver

Practice Areas

Daniel Silver has over twenty years experience handling high stakes investigations and litigation. Dan focuses on regulatory enforcement and white collar criminal defense matters for both corporate and individual clients. Dan regularly represents clients in matters before the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other federal and state agencies. Dan frequently counsels clients on issues relating to securities fraud, sanctions, AML enforcement, and anti-corruption. Dan has also advised clients on cybersecurity issues including data breach response.

Dan is an accomplished trial lawyer. Most recently, Dan obtained an acquittal for the founder and CEO of a publicly-listed software company following a criminal jury trial in federal court in San Francisco. The case, which involved allegations of securities and accounting fraud arising from a multi-billion dollar acquisition, was touted by the Department of Justice as the largest fraud prosecution in the history of Silicon Valley.

Prior to joining Clifford Chance, Dan spent ten years as a federal prosecutor, serving in several senior leadership positions and as Chief of the National Security and Cybercrime Section within the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. In the U.S. Attorney's Office, Dan supervised a team of more than one hundred federal prosecutors and conducted more than a dozen jury trials.

Career

Brown University (BA, Public Policy) 1999

New York University, School of Law (JD) 2002

Law Clerk to the Honorable Cheryl Pollak, U.S. Magistrate Judge, Eastern District of New York 2003-2004

Law Clerk to the Honorable Harold Baer, Jr., U.S. District Court Judge, Southern District of New York 2005-2006

Joined Clifford Chance as a Partner 2016

Professional Memberships

Federal Bar Council, Criminal Law Committee