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- Daniel L. Spiegel
Ambassador Daniel Spiegel is vice chair of the firm's Public Policy Practice Group. He specializes in advising clients on a wide range of international policy issues related to market access, global problem solving, and crisis management. He was instrumental in the opening of the firm’s Seoul office where he spent a significant amount of time and remains deeply involved in Covington’s Korea practice.
Mr. Spiegel's extensive international policy experience enables him to provide domestic and foreign clients with a broad range of legal services, strategic advice, and representation in their relations with both governments and multilateral organizations such as the United Nations, IMF, and the OECD. He is a specialist in the formation of large corporate coalitions to achieve a range of policy objectives. He has also represented sovereign governments from Europe, Latin America, and the Persian Gulf on trade, investment, environmental, and foreign policy matters.
- Represented a broad range of food and non-alcoholic beverage companies before a UN agency setting global health standards on obesity.
- Represented a U.S. based stock exchange in its attempt to acquire a Scandinavian exchange.
- Provided strategic advice to a Fortune 10 company to protect its intellectual property in key developing country markets.
- Represented a South African telecommunications company settle a major dispute with Nigeria.
- Represented a global vaccine manufacturer in its effort to introduce lifesaving products into innovative global programs designed to provide advanced vaccines to poor nations in Africa and Latin America.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Council on Foreign Relations
Previous Experience
- United States Permanent Representative to the European Office of the United Nations, Geneva (1993-1996)
- Department of State, Member, Policy Planning Staff (1979-1980)
- Department of State, Special Assistant to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance (1977-1978)
- U.S. Senate, Legislative Assistant for Foreign Policy to Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (1971-1976)
Brexit Task Force
March 2021
Since the beginning of the Brexit process in 2016, Covington’s Brexit Task Force–comprised of over 40 lawyers and former senior diplomats and policymakers, in London, Brussels, Frankfurt, Dublin, and Washington–has advised clients in a wide range of industries on the challenges and opportunities created by this historic event. While the EU-UK negotiations have ...
February 17, 2021, Covington Alert
The United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom have each taken significant actions in recent weeks in response to reports of oppression of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of China. As discussed in previous client alerts, the U.S. government has repeatedly stated that the Chinese government is engaged in ...
December 2, 2020, Covington Alert
Seizing a “once-in-a-generation” opportunity to work with the Biden-Harris team—potentially the most transatlanticist administration in decades—the European Commission and the European External Action Service today adopted a detailed and comprehensive plan to reinvigorate and reimagine the transatlantic partnership. The proposed strategy will be further debated, ...
October 23, 2020, Covington Alert
Since Covington's last global Business and Human Rights update, there have been significant developments in national, regional, and international regulatory and enforcement initiatives, which have continued to exert pressure on companies to develop or enhance their processes for identifying and mitigating human rights risks in their global operations and value ...
September 17, 2020, Covington Alert
On September 14, 2020, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced five Withhold Release Orders (WROs) against products from certain factories and companies doing business primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of China based on allegations of forced labor. CBP and other U.S. government departments and agencies have repeatedly stated ...
July 8, 2020, Covington Alert
In recent years and with increased vigor in recent months, stakeholders and governments, including the United States, have focused on labor-related and other human rights issues concerning the treatment of Uyghur and other minority Muslim groups in the Xinjiang region of China. In this post, we provide an overview of some of these developments and considerations ...
May 29, 2020, Covington Alert
In this update, we provide an overview of a number of recent international developments in the area of business and human rights ("BHR"). While public policy and corporate agendas have slowed in the past several months as a result of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been recent indications that key stakeholders—including governments, ...
April 25, 2019, Bloomberg Law
Bloomberg Law highlighted Covington's Global Problem Solving team and the efforts of the lawyers who make the capability possible. Sebastian Vos said the group doesn’t just work on problems for clients, but tries to use its resources to anticipate what problems could arise in the future and craft resolutions for them. “We help unlock a situation where a ...
Moving Forward and Looking Back
September 1, 2016, Corporate Counsel
Daniel Spiegel is quoted in a Corporate Counsel article regarding significant changes that occurred in the global marketplace while Paul Dudek was head of the SEC’s Office of International Corporate Finance for 23 years. Spiegel, commenting on “Smaller Companies/Emerging Markets,” says that the growth of emerging markets entering the global economic and trading ...
UK Votes to Leave the EU
June 24, 2016, Covington Alert
The UK has voted to leave the European Union in an advisory referendum. 52% leave - 48% remain. Were the UK to leave the EU, this would have significant implications for the UK and for international businesses operating in the UK. The longer term impact of the decision on the regulatory framework for the UK will depend, in part, on the relationship that the UK ...
April 29, 2016, Global Policy Watch
When the dust settles on 2016, and Congress is receiving year-end grades from political pundits, voters and even self-evaluations from the Members themselves, there will no doubt be a common refrain that election year politics, gridlock and a short legislative calendar have yet again left too many important issues unresolved. But one important piece of...… ...
Fighting 'Superbugs' With Next Generation Antibiotics
July 17, 2014, Law360
Dan Speigel and Anne Pence co-authored this article on the use of antibiotics. "Alarmed by the real health, economic and security risks associated with “superbugs” that are resistant to antibiotics — the lynchpins of modern medicine — President Obama has included anti-microbial resistance as a focus of his 26-nation partnership Global Health Security Agenda. He ...
July 9, 2014, Global Policy Watch
Alarmed by the real health, economic and security risks associated with “superbugs” that are resistant to antibiotics — the lynchpins of modern medicine — President Obama has included antimicrobial resistance as a focus of his 26-nation partnership Global Health Security Agenda. He has just announced a September 2014 White House international conference that ...
Covington Opens New Office in Seoul
November 1, 2012
WASHINGTON, DC, November 1, 2012 — Covington & Burling opens its Seoul office today after securing final approval from the Korean Ministry of Justice and the Korean Bar Association. The new office will be located in the Meritz Tower, at 825-2, Yeoksamdong in the heart of Seoul’s Gangnam business district. “We are honored to be among the first U.S. law firms to ...
May 8, 2012, Covington E-Alert
Covington to Open Seoul Office, Adds William H.Y. Park
March 12, 2012
WASHINGTON, DC, March 12, 2012 — Covington & Burling LLP has applied to open a new office in Seoul and tapped William H.Y. Park, a veteran corporate lawyer based in Korea, to help oversee the expansion. Mr. Park will work closely with former Ambassador to the United Nations Daniel Spiegel, senior of counsel at Covington, who will be the Foreign Legal Consultant ...
May 13, 2010, Covington E-Alert
2/11/2009
WASHINGTON, DC, February 11, 2009 — Covington & Burling LLP is pleased to announce that Ambassador John K. Veroneau, who most recently served as Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, has joined the firm’s international practice as a partner. Mr. Veroneau will be resident in Covington’s Washington office. At USTR, Mr. Veroneau had broad supervisory responsibility ...
June 2, 2008
WASHINGTON, DC, June 2, 2008 — Covington & Burling LLP is pleased to announce that Ambassador Daniel Spiegel has joined the firm as senior of counsel. Mr. Spiegel will be resident in the firm’s Washington office. At Covington, Mr. Spiegel will continue to build and manage large coalitions of global food, alcohol, and medical device companies who are working to ...
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