Commercial Contracts lawyers

Cyrille Decavele

Partner

CLEACH Avocats

Daan Beenders

Daan is widely regarded as one of the most prominent litigation partners in the Netherlands. Daan specializes in liability and contract law, procedural law and mass claims. Daan leads Van Doorne’s top tier litigation team, which has grown into one of the largest litigation teams in the Netherlands. Before joining Van Doorne as partner and Head of Litigation, Daan was a partner at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek for many years, where he was one of the senior litigators within the dispute resolution group of the firm. Daan represents leading companies and multinationals in complex commercial litigation and class actions, both nationally and internationally. He advises a broad spectrum of leading companies on liability and commercial contracting matters and has been involved as lead counsel in numerous groundbreaking lawsuits in the Netherlands. Daan regularly lectures and publishes on his areas of expertise. He is often cited in leading newspapers and media outlets on litigation and mass claims topics. His expertise has earned him the prestigious ILO Client Choice Award as the best Litigation lawyer in the Netherlands. Daan is recognized as a Leading Partner in two Legal500 categories: Commercial Litigation and Class Actions. Both Daan and his team are highly ranked in the Legal500 and Chambers. Daan has been serving as a deputy judge (rechter-plaatsvervanger) for more than 15 years. Clients Daan is regularly instructed in many of the largest and most complex litigation matters in the Netherlands. His practice spans high‑stakes commercial disputes, collective actions and regulatory litigation. He acts for some of the most prominent and influential companies operating in the Dutch market, including Ahold, Bergman Clinics, Domino’s, FrieslandCampina, Havenbedrijf Rotterdam, Holland Casino, Pon Holdings, Tata Steel, Tommy Hilfiger and Trivium. These clients rely on his strategic insight, his ability to navigate sensitive corporate and reputational issues and his track record in delivering results in high-stake matters.

Van Doorne

Dafna Amster Kahn

Partner

Herzog Fox & Neeman

Dag Sandart

Senior Counsel. Specialises in intellectual property law, dispute resolution, life science, and regulatory issues. Litigations within all IPR fields since 1980. Dag Sandart has acquired a vast experience within patent, trademark, marketing, life science and copyright law. Dag also has a broad experience in contract negotiation.

Sandart&Partners Advokatbyrå KB

Daima Vuilleumier

Counsel

Chabrier Avocats

Damian Maloney

Damian is a partner in Beauchamps' Corporate, Commercial and M&A department, who joined Beauchamps in November 2018 having previously worked as in-house counsel for Oracle Corporation's EMEA operations. As a result, he brings valuable insight and strategic experience, having "been the client". Damian originally qualified as a barrister in 2000. Experienced in all areas of corporate and commercial law, Damian's recent focus has been on complex commercial contracts (cross industry but with particular expertise in the technology space), data protection, franchise agreements, M&A, and cross-border structuring.

Beauchamps LLP

Damiano Battaglia

Partner

PedersoliGattai

Dan Bjerg Geary

Partner

Bech-Bruun

Dan Greatorex

Dan is a Senior Associate advising clients on a wide range of commercial matters including supply and purchase terms, distribution agreements, outsourcing agreements, IT software agreements, reseller arrangements and legal compliance matters. He is praised by clients for his pro-active approach to progressing deals, understanding clients’ business objectives and providing clear, concise legal advice. He regularly advises clients in a broad range of sectors including logistics, technology, sports, media, transport and renewable energy. Recent project experience includes advising: A local authority on its £58.9m purchase of two hybrid solar farms with battery storage, and subsequent management and sale arrangements; An outsourced service provider on its £50m food and consumable UK distribution agreement; A national development bank on the outsourcing of its loan administration IT system; A Championship football club in relation to its lead shirt sponsorship deal, including advising on club, player and coach promotional inventory; Various high-profile professional athletes on their image rights, sponsorship and endorsement agreements; A sports therapy device retailer on its licensing arrangements with the British Olympic Association; An international IT service provider on its suite of supply agreements in respect of its telehealth messaging platform; An IT start-up on various data protection compliance matters relating to its ticketing platform which utilizes facial recognition technology; and A software developer on all contractual documentation relating to the release of its flagship managed services product. Outside oflarge project work, Dan works closely with several of our clients’ in-house legal teams to assist with their day-to-day commercial contracting arrangements. This work typically involves negotiating contracts based on standard terms, understanding the business’ risk profile and providing strategic commercial advice. Dan recently returned from his secondment to a Fortune 500 international outsourced service provider, during which he supported their UK onshore and global offshore operations. This support included assisting stakeholders across the business by restructuring commercial agreements to mitigate against the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Shoosmiths LLP

Dan Kramer

Partner

Thomsons

Dan Tozer

Dan is a technology and data law expert who advises a range of clients from start-ups to multinational organisations on data and technology issues, including advising on GDPR, UK DPA, ePrivacy, technology creation, licensing/provision and implementation. He advises clients in the technology, health, media, conference, travel, education, retail, hospitality and fashion sectors. Dan also advises on intellectual property law and complex commercial transactions, such as franchising and outsourcing.

Keystone Law

Danie Pienaar

Danie Pienaar is a Patent Attorney and has a BEng (Elec) cum laude and an LLB. He is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa. Danie has a decade of experience in drafting patent specifications, particularly in the fields of electronic and computer related inventions. He assists with filing and prosecuting local and foreign patent applications and industrial designs and specialises in drafting commercial agreements relating to intellectual property. Danie advises on competition law issues, specifically in relation to horizontal and vertical agreements, as well as the interface between competition law and intellectual property.

Spoor & Fisher

Daniel Adams

Dan Adams, co-founder of Arbor Law, has over two decades of experience in advising media and technology companies. With a background in both legal practice and business development, Dan brings a unique perspective to supporting startups from inception to exit, as well as advising large corporates. His expertise includes corporate investment deals, commercial contract negotiation, data protection, and intellectual property, making him a trusted partner for founders scaling their businesses. Dan's practical experience as an entrepreneur informs his pragmatic, focused advice to clients.

Arbor Law

Daniel Chinn

Daniel Chinn is a partner and Head of our High-Tech Department. Daniel specialises in representing venture capital and private equity funds, as well as companies in the technology industry. Daniel represents early-stage technology companies from the initial stages of conception and ideation through the establishment of the company, raising capital from investors, contracting with employees, including compensation plans and options, drafting development, product manufacturing, licencing, marketing and distribution agreements, and all the way through public offerings to a possible ultimate exit. Daniel was a partner in the commercial and corporate department of leading law firms, and a partner in Israel Seed Partners, a Jerusalem-based venture capital fund with close to $300m under his management. In addition, he served as the CEO of an Agrotech company. Daniel also served as CEO and the executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Finjan Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: FNJN) where he worked with management to lead the company to significant revenues before being acquired by Fortress Capital. His extensive and varied experience, which enables him to provide legal, business and strategic advice to his clients places him in a unique position in the Israeli hi-tech landscape. Daniel was recognized by the following international ranking guides: The LEGAL 500 recommended his achievements in hi-tech and start-ups,and in commercial law – mergers and acquisitions. Chambers and Partners ranked him a prominent lawyer in technology. IFLR1000 chose him as a leading lawyer in technology and telecom.

AYR – Amar Reiter Jeanne Shochatovitch & Co

Daniel Daeniker

Partner. Practice focuses on corporate governance, mergers & acquisitions and capital markets. Other areas of work include financial services regulation and commercial contracts.

Homburger

Daniel Damboritz

Partner, HighTech

Arnon, Tadmor-Levy

Daniel Eisele

Daniel Eisele specializes in large and complex litigation and arbitration proceedings, commercial contracts and international business transactions in all kinds of industries, in particular in connection with trade and commerce, finance and banking and sports.

Niederer Kraft Frey Ltd

Daniel Lander

Daniel is a partner and Head of Cirio’s Dispute Resolution team. He is an experienced litigation and arbitration lawyer with a particular forte in disputes concerning banking&financing law and insolvency law, but mandates also include disputes concerning inter alia breach of fiduciary duty, insurance law, agency law, setting aside proceedings, general commercial contracts and general liability law. Daniel has extensive international and crossborder experience.

Cirio Advokatbyrå AB

Daniel Levi

Daniel Levi is a partner at Beccar Varela, where he co-heads the firm's Fintech department.

Beccar Varela

Daniel Lundqvist

Partner Daniel Lundqvist is one of Sweden’s leading attorneys within IT-related law, having a particular focus on digital transformation, IoT and strategic sourcing for Swedish industrials, utility companies and banking/insurance. Daniel represents Swedish and international clients in connection with drafting, review and negotiation of complex commercial contracts and strategic projects such as digitalization, cloud services, IT-sourcing, IT-projects and system development/delivery. Daniel also has extensive experience and expertise in data protection, commercialization of data and data-driven innovation.

Advokatfirman Kahn Pedersen KB

Daniel McClean

Daniel McClean specialises in art and cultural property law working with leading artists, estates, advisers, collectors, dealers, galleries, foundations, and museums. Daniel is actively involved in the art world as an independent curator and writer and has commercial gallery experience. Enthusiastic and approachable, he offers bespoke advice tailored to the needs of art world clients, including: artists, collectors, dealers, galleries and museums. He advises clients on a range of contentious and non-contentious issues from disputes involving the ownership, export and authenticity of artworks and antiques to the drafting of agency, consignment, commissioning, and sale agreements. His clients include Artangel (where he is a board member), Tate, La Colección Jumex (Mexico City), Gagosian Gallery, Pilar Corrias Gallery and the Keith Arnatt Estate. He also specialises in intellectual property law and regularly advises artists and photographers on intellectual property agreements and disputes. Daniel is the commissioning editor of ‘Dear Images: Art, Copyright and Culture’ (2002) and ‘The Trials of Art’ (2007). He co-wrote ‘Commissioning Contemporary Art: A Handbook for Curators, Collectors and Artists’, with Louisa Buck and published by Thames & Hudson (Autumn 2012). He writes a regular column for Art Review on art legal issues and teaches Art Law at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art (London). He is a regular writer for the international contemporary art magazines, Art Review and Frieze. Daniel is a member of the Art Law Committee of the International Bar Association.

Howard Kennedy LLP

Daniel Myhre Engell

Senior Associate

Bech-Bruun

Daniel O’Brien

Browne Jacobson LLP

Daniel Preiskel

Current position: senior partner. Specialist area of practice: telecoms and IT. Daniel is a co-founder of PREISKEL & CO LLP and has over 20 years’ experience working in the telecoms sector, advising across the industry and globe. He has been ranked for over 16 years in major independent research guides as one of the world’s leading communications lawyers. He is particularly recognised for commercial and regulatory work in the UK and overseas. Together with his international team of lawyers that he heads up, he provides an outside global-counsel service to clients on a range of legal issues spanning the globe, quite a number of which have no connection with the UK or indeed English law. Daniel recently co-founded the International MVNOx Association and advises MVNOs as well as MNOs from the Far East, Middle East, Europe and Africa, as well as North and South America (sometimes including strategy). He also advises clients on international acquisitions, investments and occasionally on telecoms privatisations. Other types of clients include a major global Korean handset manufacturer, various OTT providers, a major international WIFI provider, mobile data clearing houses, telecoms data centres, minutes’ exchanges and various telecoms resellers. He also advises on cloud issues and software as a service agreements, including a major one recently with BBC Worldwide. Daniel Preiskel is a regular speaker at prestigious international telecoms conferences and was on the Steering Committee of the MEF Privacy in Apps Programme (www.appprivacy.net) that attracted a fair amount of coverage in the press. MEF is the mobile content industry leading forum and Daniel is now on the MEF Global Mobile Money Steering Committee. Daniel plays an important legal role in other leading industry associations: ITSPA (Internet Telephony Service Providers Association), ISPA (Internet Service Providers Association) and the Lexing Network of Emerging Technology Lawyers and FCS (Federation of Communication Services).

Preiskel & Co LLP