Daniella P. Main

• Represented a multibillion-dollar insurance company against perpetrators of a highly publicized Ponzi scheme in parallel litigation and arbitration proceedings before the American Arbitration Association and Southern District of New York.
• Represented a multinational medical device manufacturer in various litigations and arbitration proceedings involving breach of contract and related issues before the American Arbitration Association and New Jersey Superior Court.
• Represented a criminal defendant in a case involving constitutional voir dire violations before the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division and New York Court of Appeals.
• Represented a major public policy organization as amicus curiae in a case involving interpretation of a strict liability statute before the New York Court of Appeals.
• Represented multiple major public policy organizations as amicus curiae in a case involving constitutional violations of speedy trial rights before the New York Court of Appeals. 
• Represented a criminal defendant in a case involving the interpretation of a federal money-laundering statute in a cert petition to the U.S. Supreme Court. 
• Represented a major U.S. defense contractor in an executive compensation case before the Massachusetts Appeals Court.
• Represented a major private equity firm in an employee poaching action against a competitor firm before the New York State Supreme Court.
• Represented a global investment management company in an action involving LLC indemnification rights before the Delaware Chancery Court.
• Represented a major wealth management firm in a fraud-related action against an international bank before the American Arbitration Association. 
• Represented an international bank in connection with state and federal investigations of residential mortgage-backed securities practices.
• Represented a privately owned technology company in litigation and arbitration proceedings initiated by an international pharmaceutical and medical diagnostics company involving a disputed contractual right of first refusal before the American Arbitration Association, Southern District of Indiana, and Seventh Circuit. 

Daniella Main is a partner in the Dallas and New York offices and a member of the Litigation & Trial Practice Group. She focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation. Daniella has represented plaintiffs and defendants in a broad range of complex commercial disputes, including litigation involving RICO violations, fraud, breach of contract, right of first refusal and indemnification claims, and agency and fiduciary relationships. She also counsels clients facing parallel state and federal regulatory agency investigations, as well as internal corporate investigations. Her experience spans federal and state practice and appeals, as well as domestic and international arbitration. 

Daniella contributes a significant amount of time to pro bono endeavors, working with public policy and criminal defense organizations to provide criminal appellate representation to her clients. Most recently, she argued for and won, by unanimous consensus, the reversal of her client’s manslaughter conviction before New York’s highest court, the New York Court of Appeals, establishing important legal precedent in the world of constitutional criminal defense. 

Daniella earned her J.D. in 2010 from Emory University School of Law, where she served as the director-in-chief of the Moot Court Honor Society. She earned her B.A. in political science, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007. 

Bar Admissions

• New York

Education

• Emory University (J.D., 2010)
• University of Pennsylvania (B.A., 2007)

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