Extensive entertainment law experience and a background in corporate and securities law allow Dan to counsel clients concerning a broad range of business and legal issues.  Dan's work with entertainment industry clients involves not only the exploitation and protection of intellectual property rights, but also acquisitions, joint ventures, loans, private placements, and other corporate transactions.

Within the field of entertainment, Dan has a particular focus on theater law, representing producers as well as playwrights and underlying rightsholders.  Among the recently produced or pending Broadway productions for which Dan has served as production counsel are "Elling," "Catch Me if You Can," "Wonderland," "The Miracle Worker," "Legally Blonde," and “Young Frankenstein.”  He lectures regularly on theatrical finance at Columbia University and in other venues, is the former co-chair of the Law Journal Seminars "Negotiating Contracts in the Entertainment Industry," and the co-author, with his law partner Elliot H. Brown, of "A Practical Guide to Theatrical Financing."

Dan also provides personal services to the firm's individual clients.  In particular, Dan negotiates employment contracts for senior executives in a wide range of fields, including media sales, television, publishing, and advertising.  This representation often involves the negotiation of equity-based incentive compensation arrangements for executives in companies backed by private equity.  Dan also supervises the firm’s residential real estate practice, which regularly involves multi-million dollar transactions.

Dan received an A.B.  degree from Brown University (1976), where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and his law degree from New York University (1980).    

Representative Work:

• Representation of entrepreneurs, including independent film producers, seeking to raise capital through private placements. 
• Representation of prominent film producer in securing bank loan for production. 
• Negotiation of partnership arrangements among owners of private companies as well as co-production arrangements among theatrical producers. 
• Negotiation of book publishing contracts for prominent authors and distribution arrangements for independent publishers. 
• Representation of senior executives of public and private companies in connection with employment contracts, including profits interests and other equity-based incentives. 
• Representation of clients purchasing and selling co-ops, condominiums and townhouses in the New York metropolitan area, including recent transaction in excess of $20,000,000.