Dan Fridman is an internationally recognized corporate crime and investigations lawyer.

Before founding Fridman, Fels & Soto, PLLC, Daniel Fridman was a Partner at White & Case, LLP, one of the largest law firms in the world, where he helped establish its Latin America Investigations practice. He has been recognized by Chambers USA, the world leader in lawyer rankings, as one of the top white-collar crime and government investigations lawyers in Florida and by Chambers Latin America as one of the top corporate crimes and investigations lawyers in the region.

The key to Mr. Fridman’s success in assisting clients in Latin America is that he has native proficiency in Spanish and is able to conduct internal investigations in Latin America entirely in Spanish or Portuguese, without the need to translate documents or hire interpreters. This ensures that such investigations proceed efficiently and rapidly, with nothing lost in translation. He has recently completed investigations involving Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and South Korea.

He is a former Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General of the United States and was Special Counsel for Health Care Fraud at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, DC. He advised the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General in the George W. Bush Administration on national healthcare fraud enforcement policy, and he testified before the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives committees on law enforcement issues.

He focuses his practice on representing companies and individuals facing criminal or civil cases brought by the U.S. Department of Justice. In a recent False Claims Act case, he defended the CEO of a national pharmacy that sold compounded pain and scar creams that were reimbursed by the TRICARE program. In another False Claims Act case, he defended a major PBM against allegations that the company defrauded the Medicare program by overbilling for diabetes supplies.

He has represented pharmaceutical and medical device company sales representatives in Anti-Kickback Statute investigations, and doctors in civil litigation involving business disputes with national laboratories. He has also handled criminal tax cases where he obtained a sentence of probation for a failure to file the case.

During his time as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of Florida, he prosecuted health care fraud, financial crimes, official corruption, aviation offenses, narcotics offenses, firearms offenses, and violent crimes. He was the lead prosecutor in numerous jury trials. After graduating from Harvard Law School, he clerked for the Honorable Alan S. Gold in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Mr. Fridman served from July 2011 through October 2020 on the Eleventh Circuit Judicial Nominating Commission, which interviews and recommends candidates to the Governor for appointment as circuit and county court judges. He previously served as Chairman of the Commission in 2016. Approximately 40 currently sitting circuit and county court judges went through the JNC process during the time that Mr. Fridman served on the Commission.