Daniel Schnapp > Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Daniel Schnapp
Work Department
Entertainment, Technology and Advertising; Technology Transactions
Position
Daniel E. Schnapp is a partner in the Entertainment, Technology and Advertising Practice Group in Sheppard Mullin’s New York office and Team Leader of the firm’s Technology Transactions Team and Esports & Games Industry Team.
Daniel provides strategic counsel and transactional support for multinational corporations, as well as midcap and startup companies, in connection with a wide range of legal and policy issues arising out of the convergence of technology, advertising, entertainment and media, electronic commerce, intellectual property (IP), privacy, data breach, information security, and compliance and risk management, including:
- Digital video and music content licensing and distribution, and related audiovisual broadcasting initiatives on all new media platforms
- Mobile device and online app development and licensing and distribution of social media and networking services and applications
- Cloud-based content distribution models and enterprise cloud computing initiatives
- Video games and interactive entertainment development, publishing, merchandising, promotion, distribution and licensing
- Digital and traditional advertising, sponsorships, product placements and promotional arrangements
- User-generated content ingestion, distribution and syndication
- Strategic alliances and joint ventures “offshore,” “near shore” and domestic information technology, call center, manufacturing and business process outsourcing
- Wireless device and network application
- Electronic publishing and distribution
- Viral marketing, contextual advertising and brand management
- Promotions, sweepstakes and contests compliance
- Record retention and disaster recovery/contingency planning compliance
- Stored value and smart card application development
- Digital signatures and public key infrastructures
- Electronic payment systems and solutions and internet banking
- Software/hardware procurement, development, licensing, distribution and export
- Systems integration and facilities management
- Data warehousing and mining
- Domain name trademark disputes
- Application storage and service provider transactions
- Website hosting and development
- Technology and data export compliance
- Patent and trademark licensing
- Intellectual property audits
Dan was selected in 2008 as one of the “Top 50 IP Attorneys Under 45” in IP Law and Business magazine.
Dan writes and lectures extensively on new developments in the areas of digital content distribution and syndication, cloud-based content distribution models, end user-generated content and social networking initiatives, outsourcing, electronic commerce, electronic payment systems, privacy and information security.
Memberships
Member, Law Firm Advisory Board, Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel
Member, Distributed Computing Industry Association
Member, Mobile Marketing Association
Member, Securities Industry Association’s Root Certificate Authority Initiative; has served as independent counsel to the consortium of financial institutions and regulatory agencies comprising the group
Member, American Bar Association Section of Science and Technology Law; has been an active participant in the section’s various initiatives regarding electronic commerce and information security
Education
J.D., Syracuse University College of Law, 1994, cum laude
B.A., University of Vermont, 1991
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP has an experienced cross-disciplinary technology transactions team which combines a mixtire of corporate, IP, and entertainment and media lawyers. The firm has been particularly busy advising media and entertainment companies on NFT launches, while on the M&A side, it assisted Sony Interactive Entertainment on its acquisition of the Seattle-based videogame developer Valkyrie Entertainment. The ‘responsive and knowledgeable‘ Brian Anderson and Daniel Schnapp in New York jointly lead the team with Michael Orlando in San Diego and Marisa Brutoco in Orange County. ‘Excellent’ associate, Brittany Walter (San Diego), is also singled out for her ‘good eye towards substantive legal issues‘.
Lawyer Rankings
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Firm Rankings
- Government > Government contracts
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Tax > International tax
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)