Daniel Cantu is an associate in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Washington, D.C. office and a member of the firm's Litigation Department with an emphasis on general civil litigation.

Mr. Cantu has broad experience in representing clients before international and domestic arbitration panels and in complex civil suits in state and federal courts and in appeals.  His arbitration practice has focused on major insurance disputes, representing insurers in proceedings involving political and financial risk policies.  In political risk arbitrations, Mr. Cantu has managed complex investigations involving issues of international law and finance and witnesses and documents from North America, South America and Europe.

In federal court, he has defended clients accused of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, the Federal False Claims Act, antitrust laws, securities laws, and intellectual property statutes.  He has worked on matters before federal courts in Texas, Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, and Tennessee.  He has drafted appeals to the First Circuit on third party discovery and the Fifth Circuit on qui tam standing under the False Claims Act.  He has written, with Baruch Fellner and Derry Dean Sparlin, Jr., Challenges in Regulating the Workplace to Prevent Musculoskeletal Disorders, published in Bender's Labor & Employment Bulletin in 2004.  He has represented clients in state courts in matters involving allegations of fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and violations of the corporations law of Delaware and other states.

Mr. Cantu clerked for the Honorable Vanessa Ruiz on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in 2000-01, and graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1999.  At law school, he was comments editor for the University of Chicago Legal Forum, a student intern at the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois, and author of When Should Federal Courts Require Psychotherapists to Testify About Their Patients?  An Interpretation of Jaffee v. Redmond, 1998 University of Chicago Legal Forum 375.  He is an active member of the bars of the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Before becoming a lawyer, Mr. Cantu spent six years as an international economist for the Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President, and four years as an advisor to the Appropriations Committee of the United States House of Representatives.  He has a masters degree in international economic policy from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and B.A. in Latin American history from the University of California, Berkeley.