Dan Schnapp is a corporate and commercial transactional lawyer with more than 30 years of experience advising clients on high-stakes, strategic transactions at the intersection of intellectual property, technology and digital media. His practice focuses on structuring and negotiating strategic transactions that govern how IP and content assets, technology and data are developed, distributed, monetized and protected across evolving digital and interactive environments.

Dan has unique experience counseling clients across multiple industry verticals on the impact of emerging, transformative and disruptive technologies to their respective businesses, including generative artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, for which he assists clients in negotiating complex global licensing arrangements, managing data sourcing and usage rights, model training and output exploitation, preserving and enforcing IP portfolios, and the mitigation and allocation of risk across multiparty commercial frameworks.


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Daniel E. Schnapp

Partner; Co-Leader, AI, Robotics and Quantum Industry Team, Co-Leader, Interactive Media Team, and Co-Leader, Music Team
Sheppard
New York

Practice Area: AI, Robotics and Quantum Industry, Interactive Media and Music

All-Star

WHAT CLIENTS SAY

"Dan truly understands both technology and our industry and negotiates effectively to get deals done."


MY CLIENT PHILOSOPHY

"My approach to every client relationship begins with a single conviction: I am not just their lawyer, I am a stakeholder in their success. I strive for clients to experience our team as a seamless extension of their enterprise, not outside counsel parachuting in at moments of crisis, but trusted advisors embedded in the fabric of their business. It is critical to develop and maintain a genuine fluency in each client's industry, business model, tolerance for risk, competitive landscape, and long-term strategic ambitions. Armed with that understanding, I deliver advice that is not only legally sound, but commercially meaningful, practical, decisive, and specifically calibrated to help our clients achieve their strategic goals. Ultimately, I measure our success not by the elegance of a legal argument, but by outcomes: helping clients innovate boldly, execute their strategies with confidence, and achieve the commercial objectives that drive their businesses forward."

– Daniel E. Schnapp

ALL-STAR BIOGRAPHY

Dan Schnapp is a corporate and commercial transactional lawyer with more than 30 years of experience advising clients on high-stakes, strategic transactions at the intersection of intellectual property, technology and digital media. His practice focuses on structuring and negotiating strategic transactions that govern how IP and content assets, technology and data are developed, distributed, monetized and protected across evolving digital and interactive environments.

Dan has unique experience counseling clients across multiple industry verticals on the impact of emerging, transformative and disruptive technologies to their respective businesses, including generative artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, for which he assists clients in negotiating complex global licensing arrangements, managing data sourcing and usage rights, model training and output exploitation, preserving and enforcing IP portfolios, and the mitigation and allocation of risk across multiparty commercial frameworks.

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+1-212-634-3063

Daniel E. Schnapp

Partner; Co-Leader, AI, Robotics and Quantum Industry Team, Co-Leader, Interactive Media Team, and Co-Leader, Music Team
Sheppard
New York

Practice Area: AI, Robotics and Quantum Industry, Interactive Media and Music

M&A All-Star

ALL-STAR BIOGRAPHY

Dan Schnapp is a corporate and commercial transactional lawyer with more than 30 years of experience advising clients on high-stakes, strategic transactions at the intersection of intellectual property, technology and digital media. His practice focuses on structuring and negotiating strategic transactions that govern how IP and content assets, technology and data are developed, distributed, monetized and protected across evolving digital and interactive environments.

Dan has unique experience counseling clients across multiple industry verticals on the impact of emerging, transformative and disruptive technologies to their respective businesses, including generative artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, for which he assists clients in negotiating complex global licensing arrangements, managing data sourcing and usage rights, model training and output exploitation, preserving and enforcing IP portfolios, and the mitigation and allocation of risk across multiparty commercial frameworks.

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