Dan Wall recently retired from Latham & Watkins after a 42 year career in antitrust. After law school, he joined the DOJ Antitrust Division, where he was assigned to the trial team in U.S. v. AT&T, the historic monopolization action that led to the break-up of the Bell System. After a short stint in the Washington D.C. office of Skadden, Arps, he returned to San Francisco in 1984 as an associate and later partner at McCutchen, Doyle Brown & Enersen. In 1999 he moved to Latham & Watkins, where for over 20 years he led Latham’s growth into one of the top antitrust practices in the world.
Dan’s practice has focused heavily on the Silicon Valley and the evolving field of “high-tech antitrust law.” The many cases he has handled over the years include monopolization claims against iconic tech companies such as Apple, Intel, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Broadcom and Eastman Kodak. Unlike most antitrust litigators, Dan also maintained an active mergers and acquisitions practice. He has represented clients in over 50 deals and has tried several merger challenges, most notably U.S. v. Oracle, the DOJ’s 2004 suit to block Oracle’s hostile takeover of PeopleSoft. The decision in Oracle’s favor was front page news and the National Law Journal named the matter its Top Defense Win of 2004.
Throughout his career Dan has been a prolific writer and speaker on antitrust issues. He was a founding editor of, and frequent contributor to, Antitrust magazine. He has taught or lectured on antitrust at Santa Clara Law, the Stanford Business School, and since 2018 at BerkeleyLaw.
After returning from Latham, Dan joined longtime client Live Nation Entertainment, where he now serves as the company’s Executive Vice President for Corporate and Regulatory Affairs.
Education
A.B., UC Davis (1977)
J.D., Santa Clara Law (1980)