Focus Areas
Examples of Daniel’s experience include:
- Advising sponsors on the structuring and formation of private investment funds.
- Representing fund managers with respect to SEC registrations, filings and examinations.
- Advising digital assets-focused funds regarding regulatory compliance and SEC examinations, including on matters concerning custody of digital assets.
- Representing a cryptocurrency exchange in its acquisition of a digital assets investment manager.
- Advising a private fund sponsor in the negotiation of an AI service provider arrangement and the drafting and implementation of AI use policies and procedures.
- Constructing private fund sponsor compliance programs and ad hoc policies and procedures.
- Advising funds and their sponsors with respect to conflicts of interest, handling of material non-public information, custody issues and marketing of fund interests.
- Counseling private fund sponsors regarding engagement of placement agents and solicitors and compliance with Regulation D, the Investment Advisers Act and the Investment Company Act.
- Drafting and filing Forms ADV and PF.
- Reviewing fund and investment adviser marketing materials.
- Representing a digital assets company in the tokenization of private fund interests.
- Representing an investment management firm in its $3.9 billion acquisition of a real estate investment trust.
- “SEC Issues Statement on Disclosures for Crypto Asset ETP Registrations,” Thompson Hine Investment Management Update, July 2025
- “China’s Patent Subsidies and the U.S. Response,” American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal, 2014
Education
- The George Washington University Law School, J.D., 2014, with honors,
AIPLA Quarterly Journal, student editor-in-chief
- University of Michigan, B.S.E., 2000
Bar Admissions
- Illinois
- California
Languages
- Mandarin
- SEC Issues Statement on Disclosures for Crypto Asset ETP Registrations,
Investment Management Update
, July 9, 2025