In recent years, Dan has represented numerous corporate clients, trade associations, and nonprofit organizations on a wide variety of public policy matters, including securing federal funds, and has assisted clients in resolving issues before Congress and Executive Branch agencies. Dan has worked with clients who need innovative strategic planning and tireless advocacy in the nation’s capital on issues that include health policy, trade, tax policy, energy, Medicare reimbursement, transportation infrastructure, biomedical research, and economic development. Leaders of hospital systems, universities, publicly traded corporations, small businesses, trade associations, and financial institutions regularly depend on Dan’s assistance in achieving their diverse policy goals in a time of divided government. From drafting legislation to orchestrating Twitter campaigns to prepping witnesses for Congressional hearings, Dan's lobbying engagements rely on a diverse set of skills. In addition, Dan advises U.S. and foreign clients on trade finance and project finance transactions and assists clients in expanding into foreign markets.
Dan’s recent successful client matters include:
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Serving as lead lobbyist for the Committee to Restore Dealer Rights, a nationwide coalition of terminated General Motors and Chrysler dealers that secured hundreds of cosponsors for legislation which would help restore their dealerships, and ultimately obtained unprecedented bipartisan legislation in December, 2009 establishing an arbitration process by which they could seek reinstatement. His work included communicating on an almost daily basis with hundreds of auto dealers, helping prepare them for a major fly-in and Capitol press conference attended by the House Majority Leader, and working on the media campaign, including guidance regarding the coalition’s website content. More than 700 dealerships were reinstated as a result of the Committee’s advocacy campaign. ArentFox Schiff’s effort on behalf of the Committee to Restore Dealer Rights was selected as one of the “Top 10 Lobbying Triumphs of 2009” by The Hill, the highly respected Washington, DC newspaper dedicated to covering the U.S. Congress.
