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Daniel G. Swanson is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, with offices in Los Angeles and Brussels. Mr. Swanson has been a trial and appellate litigator for over 30 years, and has Co-Chaired Gibson Dunn’s highly-regarded Antitrust and Competition Practice Group since 1996. His practice focuses on U.S., U.K., EU and international antitrust and competition law, including trial and appellate litigation, class actions, criminal investigations and cartel defense, merger review and government civil investigations, regulatory and competition policy matters, and antitrust counseling. Mr. Swanson is a member of the California and Brussels Bars, and is a solicitor of England and Wales and of the Republic of Ireland. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1984 and holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, where he was a Harvard Teaching Fellow. He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit and the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth and Tenth Circuits. He is also qualified to appear before the Courts of the European Union. Chambers USA has reported that “Daniel Swanson has a vast amount of antitrust expertise covering everything from merger investigations to civil and criminal litigation” and has described him as “a highly regarded trial lawyer with a wealth of experience” and as “a ‘tough opponent’ in civil and criminal litigation, alleged cartel matters and IP-related issues.” Who’s Who Legal comments that “Daniel Swanson is a leading competition litigator whose ‘economics PhD is part of what makes him an outstanding attorney,’” and who “scores very highly for his ‘tenacious and persuasive’ litigation practice across a wide range of competition matters.” The Legal 500 places him in a small group of Leading Lawyers for U.S. antitrust and class action litigation. The Institutional Investor’s Benchmark Litigation Guide ranks Mr. Swanson as an Antitrust “Litigation Star,” and he has been listed as one of the Best Lawyers in America in both Antitrust Law and Antitrust Litigation. He has twice been named Best Lawyers’ Antitrust Law “Lawyer of the Year” for Los Angeles, most recently in 2016.