San Diego
Daniel (Dan) T. Pascucci is a trusted and internationally recognized advisor in complex cross-border asset recovery, fraud investigations, and high-stakes litigation. He leads sophisticated enforcement strategies with a unique combination of technical skill and commercial insight to help clients recover assets to which they are entitled.
Dan has a proven history of recovering assets that have been fraudulently laundered offshore and hidden in both international and US privacy and tax havens. With a deep understanding of the intricate challenges faced by creditors and claimants, he has led multinational teams through highly sensitive investigation and litigation efforts to enforce judgments and arbitration awards across international borders.
- As global coordinating counsel in the enforcement of a complex cross-border arbitration, secured a $2.9 billion settlement from a multinational corporation after leveraging strategic pressure tactics*
- Led a global investigation to enforce a Singapore arbitration award against Philippine debtor entities. Successfully developed the investigation strategy and factual record to identify the global asset footprint, including significant assets veiled behind a Cayman trust, of the debtors, related entities, and billionaire founder, which resulted in filing enforcement litigation in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY). Served as lead counsel for SDNY litigation through trial, culminating in the defendants agreeing to a $300 million cash settlement shortly after the close of evidence*
- Served as lead trial counsel for a Taiwanese creditor in a complex civil RICO case involving claims against 34 defendants. Successfully defeated more than 30 motions to dismiss and managed millions of pages of written discovery, including processing and analyzing hundreds of gigabytes of data, more than 40 depositions on two continents, and more than 120 discovery disputes before two court-appointed special masters. Defeated summary judgment and in limine motions, resulting in a favorable settlement at the commencement of trial*
Litigation and appeals
- Served as lead counsel in a non-dischargeability action in a US bankruptcy court, obtaining a judgment of non-dischargeability against the defendant company’s CEO based on findings of fraud and alter-ego liability*
- Served as lead counsel for a private investment fund defrauded by a scam Forex platform. Counseled the fund manager through the federal investigation and successfully litigated a forfeiture case against the US government and secured a summary judgment ordering the government to turn over 100% of forfeiture funds to the client and reimburse attorneys’ fees*
- Benchmark Litigation, Litigation Star, 2025
- Best Lawyers in America, Intellectual Property Litigation, 2016-2025,2027; Commercial Litigation, 2016-2025,2027; Mass Tort/Class Actions – Defendants, 2016-2023
- The Recorder, California Trailblazer, 2020
- San Diego Daily Transcript, Top Influential Business Leader, 2017
- San Diego Super Lawyers, Business Litigation, 2013-2017, 2019-2020, 2022-2025
- The International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators, fellow
- Litigation Counsel of America, fellow
- International Bar Association, Litigation Committee and Arbitration Committee, member
- California Bar Association, member
- San Diego Bar Association, member
- Pepperdine University School of Law, JD, cum laude
- Fordham University, BA
- California
- Supreme Court of the United States
- US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- US District Court for the Southern District of California
- US District Court for the Central District of California
- US District Court for the Northern District of California
- US District Court for the Eastern District of California
- Englisch