Dan Ronnen

Dan Ronnen

Chief Compliance Officer, Deputy General Counsel and Observer, Executive Committee

Dan Ronnen is Senior Managing Director, Chief Compliance Officer and Deputy General Counsel for ORIX Corporation USA. He is a member of the Asset Management Investment and Oversight Committee and an observer to the Executive Committee. He joined the firm in 2019 and is based in New York.  Mr. Ronnen is responsible for legal coverage for ORIX USA Group’s Asset Management businesses, as well as compliance for ORIX USA Group, in addition to managing litigation, dispute resolution, and employment law for ORIX USA Group.

Prior to joining ORIX USA, he was a Managing Director at BlackRock, Inc., where he was responsible for legal coverage of the private equity partners and infrastructure businesses. Mr. Ronnen brings extensive experience in the global alternative investments space, having advised business leaders on fund, product structuring, regulatory, compliance and transactional matters as well as carried interest and alternative investment bonus plans.

Before his time at BlackRock, which included time at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers prior to its acquisition by BlackRock in 2006, Mr. Ronnen worked as an associate at the international law firms Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, respectively.

Mr. Ronnen holds a JD from Columbia University School of Law and a BA in Political Science from Rutgers University.