Daniel advises individual and corporate clients in the areas of business and corporate law, real estate development, transactions, and leasing, technology and venture capital, and other transactional matters. He leverages his prior experience working as in-house counsel to the largest privately held shopping mall developer in the Northeast to deliver business-focused, practical and effective solutions.
Prior to joining the firm, Daniel worked on multi-million dollar real estate finance and development transactions, commercial leases, due diligence, and various other corporate and transactional activities to support company business. In addition, Daniel has a varied litigation background that he draws upon to counsel clients on how to plan for, evaluate, and act upon litigation risk.
Since joining the firm, Daniel has played an active role in the emerging field of name, image, and likeness (NIL) in college athletics as a natural spinoff of his regular content creators and influencers practice. He has been a NIL panelist at the Temple Sports Business Conference and Syracuse Law’s Entertainment and Sports Law Society Symposium, as well as providing guest lectures at Syracuse University’s College of Law, David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, and Cazenovia College. Daniel has also been quoted in NIL publications and has discussed current legal issues in the NIL landscape on sports law podcasts. In combination with his background as a former Coordinator of Hockey Operations for an NCAA Division I ice hockey program, Daniel is uniquely situated to assist any current or prospective college athlete, as well as any high school athlete in New York, navigate this unchartered and rapidly changing territory.
Daniel is originally from Yorktown Heights, New York, and has resided in the Syracuse area since 2013. He lives with his wife, Georgia, in Manlius, New York.
- “Lecture: Name, Image, and Likeness in College Athletics: Legal Review of Year 1 of the NIL Era,” Syracuse University College of Law (September 19, 2022)
- “Podcast Guest: 1-year NIL Anniversary,” Conduct Detrimental (July 1, 2022)
- “Podcast Guest: Playoff Time and NIL,” M&M&M Across The Board Podcast (May 18, 2022)
- “Podcast Guest: College Sports Law – SCOTUS to the NIL Era,” Conduct Detrimental (May 10, 2022)
- “Panel: Name, Image, and Likeness,” Temple Sports Business Conference (April 15, 2022)
- “Panel: Name, Image, and Likeness in Collegiate Sports,” Syracuse University College of Law Entertainment and Sports Law Society Symposium (March 31, 2022)
- “Lecture: Dawn of a New Era: Name, Image and Likeness pitfalls and caveats,” Syracuse University Falk College of Sport & Human Dynamics (February 7, 2022 & November 4, 2021)
- “Lecture: Name, Image, and Likeness in College Athletics: Anti-Trust Analysis, Alston and its fallout,” Syracuse University Falk College of Sport & Human Dynamics (February 24, 2022)
- “Lecture: Name, Image and Likeness in College Athletics: The Future is Here!,” Cazenovia College (September 30, 2021)
- “Lecture: Pre- and Post- Alston Legal Analysis,” Syracuse University College of Law (September 13, 2021)
- Syracuse University College of Law (J.D., 2016)
- Union College (B.A., with honors, American History, 2011)
- New York
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District
- “T.A. Cunningham left homeless, without football due to ugly side of NIL,” The NIL Deal (September 22, 2022) (quoted)
- “Could Michigan become 1st state to expressively permit NIL at high school level?,” On3 (September 21, 2022) (quoted)
- “Not All College Athletes can Participate in NIL,” Conduct Detrimental (August 31, 2022)
- “Plan in place for Pennsylvania high school student-athletes to profit from NIL,” On3 (July 14, 2022) (quoted)
- “Missouri Governor signs NIL reform, freeing schools to help players land deals,” Spectrum News (June 16, 2022) (quoted)
- “New York representatives say NIL bill would ban collectives,” On3 (June 7, 2022) (quoted)
- “SEC NIL oversight would suffer ‘defeat after defeat in court’,” On3 (June 3, 2022) (quoted)
- “Louisiana moves to give NIL collectives more power,” On3 (June 1, 2022) (quoted)
- “Why Nick Saban, Jimbo Fisher are at heart of Louisiana NIL debate,” On3 (June 1, 2022) (quoted)
- “NIL a no-go for Ohio high school student-athletes,” On3 (May 17, 2022) (quoted)
- “NIL collectives could soon have more impact in Louisiana, Missouri,” On3 (May 13, 2022) (quoted)
- “NIL collectives could soon have more impact in Illinois, South Carolina,” On3 (May 6, 2022) (quoted)
- “‘It’s out of hand right now: Proposal pleases those who want NIL barriers,” On3 (May 4, 2022) (quoted)
- “Caleb Williams a NIL trendsetter by selling apparel at USC spring game,” On3 (April 26, 2022) (quoted)
- “States in SEC footprint alter laws to empower collectives’ impact on NIL, recruiting,” On3 (April 26, 2022) (quoted)
- “Sports Law In 2022 – Key Issues To Watch In North America: NIL and High School Athletics,” LawInSport (December 28, 2021)
- “Tax Trick: Why the New York Rangers Will Be the Away Team for the 2018 Winter Classic at Citi Field,” New York State Bar Association’s Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Journal (Fall/Winter 2017-18)
- “From the Ice to the Courtroom: Analyzing the Relationship Between Professional Ice Hockey and Tort Liability,” The Sports Lawyers Journal (Vol. 23, Spring 2016)
- Syracuse Law Review, Associate Notes Editor
- Hockey Arbitration Competition of Canada, Finalist
- Entertainment & Sports Law Society, President
