General Professional Background

Daniel L. Egan is a partner at the firm and focuses his practice on bankruptcy, creditors’ rights, general business litigation and commercial transactions.

Mr. Egan received his Bachelors of Science in Agricultural Economics from the University of California, Davis in 1985 and his Juris Doctorate from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. Mr. Egan practiced law in San Francisco, California from 1989 until 1994 before moving to the Sacramento area, where he practiced with two San Francisco-based law firms before joining Wilke, Fleury, Hoffelt, Gould & Birney, LLP in 2000.

Areas of Current Emphasis

Mr. Egan’s bankruptcy experience includes both creditor, debtor, and trustee representation. Mr. Egan’s creditors' rights practice has included the representation of large financial institutions as well as community banks and large corporate non-bank institutions. Mr. Egan’s practice also includes representation of banks and other financial institutions in the documentation of financing transactions and in out-of-court credit workouts. Mr. Egan has also represented corporate debtors in agricultural and technology based Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases. Mr. Egan’s broader business litigation practice has involved representing large companies and institutions in interpleader actions, declaratory relief actions, lender liability actions, franchise litigation and litigation under California’s unfair competition law.

Mr. Egan is the co-author of Labor Management Laws in California Agriculture, University of California Press (1990) and Unfulfilled Promise: Collective Bargaining in California Agriculture, Westview Press, Boulder, CO (1988), as well as a number of other articles on agricultural labor law in California.

Professional and Business Affiliations

Mr. Egan is a member of the State Bar of California and the Sacramento County Bar Association, Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section (President, 2005). Mr. Egan was also the 1998-99 co-chair of the Agribusiness Committee of the Business Law Section of the California State Bar.

Professional Licenses

Mr. Egan is licensed to practice in all federal and state courts in the state of California.