Daniel R. Guadalupe

Daniel R. Guadalupe serves as a trusted advisor to many domestic and international businesses on a wide range of matters with commercial litigation and transactional experience across the world. He is often called on to arbitrate complex commercial matters in the United States and internationally.

Dan represents clients in commercial litigation and provides “outside” general counsel assistance with a specialty in business strategy, manufacturing and distribution, business disputes of all types, construction, shareholder and LLC member disputes, professional liability, franchise law, arbitrations and mediations, and international matters. Dan is a former President of the New Jersey Hispanic Bar Association and former General Counsel to two consecutive presidents of the Hispanic National Bar Association. He is a former member of the Lawyers Advisory Committee of the U.S. District Court and served on two U.S. Magistrate selection committees.

Dan is counsel to business owners, manufacturers, major pharmaceutical companies, a national dairy products manufacturer, and a global chocolate products manufacturer. He also has been counsel to the Newark Housing Authority, the City of Perth Amboy, and the Perth Amboy Business Improvement District. He has handled and supervised litigation and transactional matters in Switzerland, Spain, Mexico, El Salvador, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico.

Dan is on the exclusive roster of arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association. He formerly served as an International Chamber of Commerce Arbitrator and as an Adjunct Professor at Seton Hall University School of Law.

Early on in his career, Dan wrote the winning trial and appellate briefs for former Governor Tom Kean in an election dispute and received a letter of commendation from the Governor after the New Jersey Supreme Court affirmed the lower courts’ decisions. In 2011, Governor Christie appointed Dan to serve on the Governor’s advisory and policy center for Hispanic affairs in New Jersey.

In addition, Dan served on the Board of Trustees for GlassRoots, Inc., a Newark non-profit that provides opportunities and a nurturing environment for underserved, at-risk youth, ages 10-18, to achieve self-esteem through creative expression, while also learning basic business skills and valuable life lessons. He was also a Board Trustee of CentraState Healthcare System.

Dan is proud of the results he has achieved for clients, some of which are noted here and under the “Experience” section of this biography.  Of course, each legal matter is unique on many levels, and past successes are not a guarantee of results in any other pending or future matters.

Representative Matters

Our firm is proud of the results it has achieved for clients, some of which are noted here.  Of course, each legal matter is unique on many levels, and past successes are not a guarantee of results in any other pending or future matters.

Honors & Recognitions

Selected for inclusion in the list of:

• Chambers USA, Leading Individual New Jersey Litigation: General Commercial, 2024
• Best Lawyers, Commercial Litigation; Litigation – Construction, 2021-2025
  • Selected for inclusion in the list of Best Lawyers, "Hackensack: Lawyer of the Year," Litigation - Construction (2023, 2025)
• New Jersey Law Journal, Mentors, 2020
• New Jersey Super Lawyers, 2011, 2022-2024

The Chambers USA ranking list is published by Chambers & Partners. A description of the selection methodology can be found at https://chambers.com/about-us/methodology.

The Best Lawyers list is issued by BL Rankings, LLC of the selection methodology can be found at https://www.bestlawyers.com/About/MethodologyBasic.aspx..

The Super Lawyers list is issued by Thomson Reuters. A description of the selection methodology can be found at http://www.superlawyers.com/about/selection_process.html.

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Community & Professional

• Former Trustee, CentraState Health System
• Master, The John C. Lifland American Inn of Court
• Member, Supreme Court of New Jersey Disciplinary Oversight Committee, 2009-2012
• Member and Chair of Panel, District XIII Ethics Committee, Office of Attorney Ethics
• Member, Local Federal Rules Revision Committee of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, 1996
• Member, Merit Selection Panel for Selection of U.S. Magistrates (two panels)
• Member, Board of Editors, New Jersey Lawyer, 1997-1999
• Board Member, Glass Roots, Inc., 2007- 2010
• Board Member, American Red Cross Princeton-Trenton Chapter, 1994-1997
• Lawyers Advisory Committee to the Federal Courts, 1996-1999
• New York State Bar Association
• General Counsel, Hispanic National Bar Association, 1992-1994
• Chairman, Hispanic National Bar Convention, 1992
• Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey- President, 1991-1992; Chair, Judicial and Prosecutorial Appointments Committee, 2009-2012
• President, Hispanic Bar Foundation of New Jersey, 1997-2000
• President and Founder, Puerto Ricans in Management Executive Roles (PRIMER), 2007-2009
• Arbitrator, American Arbitration Association (Commercial Litigation and Construction)
• Arbitrator, International Court of Arbitration, International Chamber of Commerce, Paris, France
• Appointed by Governor Christie to Advisory Committee of New Jersey Hispanic Center for Policy and Research, 2011-2013
• Member, New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Complementary Dispute Resolution
• Member, Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey