Taft is pleased to announce that Daniel Solomon has joined the firm's Compliance, Investigations, and White Collar Defense practice as partner in the Detroit and Washington, D.C. offices.
Dan's practice focuses on international corporate compliance, internal investigations, government enforcement actions, and economic sanctions and export controls. He advises companies on compliance with supply chain due diligence laws, including the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA), supplier due diligence, and risk mitigation, with a particular focus on automotive and consumer product industries. Dan also represents companies in all phases of multilateral development bank (MDB) sanctions proceedings.
Prior to joining Taft, Dan was a partner and Asia-Pacific practice lead at a Washington, D.C.-based law firm. During his career, Dan served as General Counsel of SAIC General Motors, one of the largest and most successful automotive companies in China. Prior to that, he was the Lead Counsel of Global Compliance and the Executive Director of Special Investigations and Anti-Corruption for General Motors Company. He was also seconded as an international trade and compliance lawyer at the Middle East operation of a publicly traded prime government contractor client during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.