Dan Crowley is a partner in the firm's Washington, D.C. office.  His practice is focused on public policy issues relating to financial services and capital markets. He also provides research on public policy matters to institutional investors.

Mr. Crowley represents financial services clients across a broad range of  policy issues including accounting & financial reporting, broker-dealer & securities trading, commodities & futures, corporate governance, depository institutions, derivatives & securitization, hedge funds, insurance, investment management, and mortgage banking & consumer finance. He leads the firm's Capital Markets Reform Group which facilitates coordination across these practice areas on behalf of the firm's policy clients.

Prior to joining K&L Gates, for five years Mr. Crowley was chief government affairs officer at the Investment Company Institute, the national association of the mutual fund industry.  Previously, Mr. Crowley was vice president and managing director, Office of Government Relations, the Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (NASDAQ).  He joined NASDAQ after managing government relations during the spin-off of NASDAQ from its former parent, the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD).  Before joining NASD as vice president, Governmental Affairs, Mr. Crowley served for eight years in the U.S. House of Representatives in increasingly senior staff positions, including: general counsel, Office of the Speaker; general counsel, Committee on House Oversight; and minority counsel, Committee on House Administration.

• Exchequer Club of Washington, D.C.
• Vestry Member, All Saints Church, Chevy Chase, MD, 2009 – present.
• Appointed to the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts (PACA) for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., 2002 – 2009; member of the PACA Executive and Finance Committees.
• Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms, Republican National Convention, 2008.
• General Counsel, Young Republican National Federation, Inc., 1995 – 2001.
• Member of the Bush-Cheney Transition Team (Treasury), 2000.
• Advisor on parliamentary procedure to the government of Indonesia (MPR/DPR) during its first presidential election, Jakarta, September – October 1999 (IFES/USAID).
• Deputy Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, February – March, 1999.
• Counsel (restructuring/personnel), House Republican Transition Team, 1994.
• U.S. Army Reserve, Military Police Corps, Honorable Discharge, 1986.