Daniel is a Partner in the Commercial team.
He works with a wide range of businesses from FTSE 100 and multi-national corporations, through to family-owned businesses and entrepreneurs based in the UK and internationally.
Daniel's day-to-day practice involves advising across the full spectrum of commercial issues which a company may face, ranging from collaborations to distribution agreements, competition matters, intellectual property, and data concerns, as well as advertising and promotional work. He has particular experience in advising on IP and IT matters including SaaS and Cloud solutions.
Many of Daniel’s clients are manufacturers, including high end precision engineering and OEMs. He also has extensive experience in the aviation, hospitality, and high-end consumer goods sectors.
Daniel works closely with in-house teams who are looking to outsource key commercial work and tailors solutions depending on the volume and complexity of such work. Where resource is stretched he works with the wider commercial team to deliver end to end solutions for clients, including handling negotiations with third parties and obtaining business input or signoffs where required.
Whilst much of Daniel’s work is B2B but he does also advise on B2C transactions and works closely with the Regulatory team where matters such as product liability are involved.
Recent examples of how Daniel has supported clients include:
- Advising on multi-jurisdictional distribution agreements including competition law considerations;
- Advising an OEM on a high value government contract and on ongoing procurement work;
- Acting as relationship lead for one of Europe’s largest airlines, including managing the overall relationship and leading Knights multi-disciplinary team;
- Acting for various e-commerce clients, both in terms of running online sales platforms but also third party companies providing services to these clients including marketing and design agencies and software solutions;
- Ensuring the smooth running of a large fintech operation by reviewing and negotiating complex, multi-jurisdictional and high-value IT and SaaS supplier contracts;
- Negotiating an international product licence distribution agreement to mitigate liabilities and potential exposure to litigation under US law; and
- Facilitating refurbishment and modernisation of commercial aircraft through detailed negotiation with owners and third-party suppliers.