Daniel
Wu

Practice Areas:

Complex Business. Intellectual Property. Trials.

Client Sectors:

Banking & Finance. Entrepreneurship. Hospitality. Media & Filmed Entertainment. Real Estate Investment and Development. Technology.

Daniel Wu is a partner at FROST LLP. He has practiced commercial litigation at some of the leading law firms in the United States over more than 25 years, representing sector-leading businesses including banks and other financial institutions, motion picture financiers, restaurants, real estate developers, and technology companies. His approach, in pursuit of his clients’ best interests, is at once aggressive, strategic, and practical.

Wu’s commercial litigation practice is broad, with clients calling on him to handle predominantly high-stakes business or intellectual property disputes in state and federal court. While he is known for decades representing banks and financial institutions and is a member of the Bank Operations Counsel Association, Wu also represents technology and real estate interests, restaurant and hospitality clients, entrepreneurs, influencers, and innovators, and high-net-worth individuals. In both plaintiff and defense-side litigation, he has successfully handled matters with breach of contract, business interference, employee misconduct, discrimination, fraud, and various tort claims. His IP work has included a range of copyright, trademark, and patent disputes involving written, audio, and visual works, mechanical and medical devices, and software.

Wu’s experience as an attorney and his engagement with the legal community are comprehensive. Prior to joining FROST, Wu was a Los Angeles-based partner at leading national law firms including Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP, Buchalter, LLP, and Thompson Coburn LLP. His litigation practice is bolstered by criminal defense experience in earlier roles. He has been recognized as a Legal Visionary by the Los Angeles Times and a Top Attorney by Pasadena Magazine. Wu has also served as a judge pro tem in Los Angeles Superior Court, and he is active with the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association and various pro bono projects.

Wu earned a Bachelor of Arts in biology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Juris Doctor from the Pepperdine University School of Law. During law school, he externed for the Honorable Lawrence Crispo. He is licensed to practice law in California and is admitted before the United States District Courts for the Central, Eastern, Southern, and Northern Districts of California, the Eastern District of Texas, the Northern District of Illinois, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth and Federal Circuit.

In addition to his busy law practice, Wu spends time exploring all parts of Mexico, pursuing mixed martial arts such as Krav Maga and Muay Thai, riding motorcycles, and driving sports cars throughout the twisty canyons of Southern California.