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Daniel M.Criswell

Senior Managing Associate
Cleveland

O 216.566.5579

Daniel M.Criswell

Senior Managing Associate

Daniel is a senior managing associate in the Corporate Transactions & Securities and New Ventures practices. He focuses his practice on representing and advising entrepreneurs and emerging companies from formation through funding to exit.

Daniel has also represented commercial lenders, private equity funds, and public and private companies in domestic and cross-border commercial lending transactions and mergers and acquisitions.

While attending law school, Daniel served as a judicial extern for Magistrate Judge Thomas M. Parker of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.

Recognized in Best Lawyers Ones to Watch 2027
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Focus Areas

  • Co-author, “Artificial Intelligence in Corporate Dealmaking,” American Bar Association, Business Law Section, Private Equity & Venture Capital Committee’s Preferred Returns Newsletter, Fall 2025
  • Included in the 2027 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)

Education

  • Case Western Reserve University School of Law, J.D., 2019,
    magna cum laude
    ,

    CWRU Journal of International Law, executive articles editor (2018–2019)

  • Grove City College, B.S., 2016,
    cum laude

Bar Admissions

  • Ohio