Our Team

Lexpert/Thomson Canada's Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, 2009-2012 — Repeatedly recommended practitioner in computer and IT law and technology transactions

Chambers & Partners' Chambers Global: World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Client’s Guide, 2009-2013 — Notable information technology lawyer

Best Lawyers in Canada, 2013 — Leading lawyer in technology law

Intellectual Asset Management's IAM Licensing 250: The World's Leading Patent and Technology Licensing Lawyers, 2010-2012 — Leading lawyer globally

Intellectual Asset Management's IAM Patent 1000: The World's Leading Patent Practitioners, 2012 — Leading lawyer globally

Law Business Research’s Who’s Who Legal: Canada, 2010-2012 — Leading lawyer in Internet and e-Commerce

Practical Law Company’s Which Lawyer? Yearbook, 2010-2012 — Leading lawyer in Outsourcing and Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT): Technology

Dan has recently been involved in representing

• a Canadian chartered bank in connection with a structured fee incentive arrangement amending the bank’s network association services agreement with the world’s largest retail electronic payments network
• a Canadian chartered bank in connection with its entering into of a credit card issuer agreement with a global leader in charge and credit cards, pursuant to which the Canadian bank becomes a dual issuer of credit cards in the Canadian marketplace
• The Toronto-Dominion Bank in connection with its $8.5 billion acquisition of the MBNA credit card portfolio receivables
• a Canadian chartered bank in connection with the entering into of a credit card issuer agreement with a global payments and technology company operating the world’s fastest payments processing network, pursuant to which the Canadian bank becomes a dual issuer of credit cards in the Canadian marketplace
• a federal Canadian Crown Corporation in connection with the design, development and acquisition of a customer relationship and management system
• the Toronto Transit Commission with the design, development and outsourcing of a digital media, open standard, fare collection system
• a Canadian telecommunications company in its seven-year outsourcing contract for information technology services and support, pursuant to which the vendor will support transformation by linking its data centre to that of the company and upgrade the company’s data centre facilities and storage capabilities
• a Canadian chartered bank in its seven-year outsourcing and system development agreement for the bank’s securities trading platform and book of record
• a Canadian chartered bank in connection with a structured fee incentive arrangement with the world’s largest retail electronic payments network for the bank’s North American consumer and corporate debit and credit card arrangements
• a Canadian chartered bank in its seven-year corporate and consumer Canadian credit card processing arrangements, being outsourced to one of the world's largest companies for outsourced payment services in the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions; and subsequently, the U.S. affiliate of the Canadian bank in its corporate and consumer credit card processing arrangements with the same credit card processing services provider
• a Canadian chartered bank in respect of its five-year outsourcing of consumer credit card processing arrangements with one of the world's largest companies for outsourced payment services in the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions
• a Canadian chartered bank in the outsourcing of its mortgage origination services agreement
• a Canadian outsourcing services provider in its three-year call centre arrangement with Americatel
• a Canadian outsourcing services provider in its three-year payment processing/call centre outsourcing services agreement with Vistakon
• a North American stock exchange
• in its acquisition of a major bank’s fixed income indices, and related software products and database
• in its strategic alliance with a newswire service for the implementation of a suite of enhanced investor communication tools and the establishment of a disclosure service
• a large Toronto research hospital in its demerger with another large hospital
• a major Canadian bank in its outsourcing of the processing and support services relative to its consumer and commercial Visa credit card accounts
• a Canadian outsourcing services provider
• in its outsourcing agreement with a leading Canadian bank, involving a range of item-processing services via automated bank machines
• in the multibillion dollar outsourcing by three of Canada’s largest banks of certain back-office processing services
• a Canadian outsourcing service provider in several transactions, including in the C$80 million outsourcing by a credit union consortium of its technology banking environment
• one of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies in the C$3 billion sale of its directories business, which included operational agreements relating to the supply of listing information, the printing and publication of print directories, billing and collection arrangements, the use of the company's trademark and logo, transitional arrangements, website linking and other ongoing operational matters
• a provincial energy supplier in the billion-dollar business process outsourcing of its IT, procurement, finance and application development functions

Teaching faculty member, Centre for Outsourcing Research and Education (CORE) 
Member, Board of Directors, CORE
Member, Board of Directors, Canadian IT Law Association (IT.Can)