Daniel Arbess

Daniel J. Arbess is an American lawyer, investor and policy analyst. He founded investment firms Xerion Capital Partners and Xerion Investments and co-founded Stratton Investments, Taiga Capital Partners and Triton Partners. He was an affiliate at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and a fellow at the New York-based World Policy Institute. He advised the Czechoslovak (later Czech) government on its economic transition, principally involving privatization policy and transactions. In 1992, at 31, he became the youngest partner in the history of White & Case and Head of its Global Privatization Group. Arbess advised the Czechoslovak government on the restructuring of its auto industry, including the 1991 sale of Skoda Auto to Volkswagen AG for $6.4 billion (at the time, among the largest cross-border M & A transactions in European history), and the restructuring and sale of its downstream petrochemicals industry to a consortium of international oil majors. Arbess' privatization advisory work extended to Russia, Vietnam, Israel and other countries.

Arbess has been a principal investor since 1995, first pursuing restructuring-oriented private transactions in Europe. He is a co-founder of investment firms Taiga Capital, Stratton Investments and Triton Partners and founder, CEO and CIO of Xerion Investments., He was CIO of the $3.25 Billion Xerion Hedge Funds from 2003 to 2014. Xerion's noted investments captured the devolution of Communism and phases of China's economic reforms; the U.S. housing and financial crisis; monetary policy reflation of financial markets after the 2008 crisis; and the restructuring of the U.S. airline and auto industries. He returned investor capital in late 2014 to pursue private interests and purposeful investment opportunities through Xerion Investments and its affiliates.

Boards Arbess is a member of the Board of Directors of the Global Virus Network, the Corporate Advisory Board of Cancer Expert Now and the Finance Working Group of the Healthy Brains Global Initiative. He is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, is a member of the Atlantic Council and advises the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation. He was a co-founder of No Labels, a U.S. political organization promoting collaboration across the political spectrum.

Published works

Daniel J. Arbess (March 15, 2026) Apple's Cheap AI Bet Could Pay Off Big, The Wall Street Journal. Daniel J. Arbess (February 5, 2026) Kevin Warsh's Trilemma: Cutting Rates, Reducing Fed's Balance Sheet & Sustaining Financial Stability, Fortune Magazine. Daniel J. Arbess (January 23, 2026) Iran's Crisis is a Test of U.S. Moral Leadership, Los Angeles Times. Daniel J. Arbess & Guy Goldstein (January 8, 2025) Somaliland Meets the Definition of a State; "Palestine" Does Not, The Wall Street Journal. Daniel J. Arbess (October 29, 2023). "Israel at the Front Line of the Global War on Islamist Terror", The Jerusalem Post.