Justin Daniels is a corporate and technology transactions lawyer who works with business owners, C-suite executives, general counsel, and deal teams on high-stakes transactions where technology, data, and risk directly affect enterprise value. His practice spans the full business lifecycle, including M&A, capital raises, complex commercial agreements, and strategic vendor and customer relationships. He has led transactions with an aggregate value exceeding $2 billion.
Justin sits at the intersection of deal execution and complex technology, advising clients on transactions involving Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms, artificial intelligence (AI), data centers and crypto mining operations, autonomous vehicles, drones, and other emerging technologies. Drawing on this breadth of experience, he helps executives and legal teams move beyond abstract AI policy discussions and instead operationalize AI in ways that improve decision-making, risk allocation, and negotiation outcomes. He is the author of the Bloomberg Law article "AI Won’t Make Negotiators Faster – But It Will Make Them Better." He operationalized the thinking from that article by building a custom Harvey AI workflow designed to help dealmakers think more clearly and achieve better results.
Cybersecurity is a core component of Justin's transactional practice, not a standalone discipline. He advises boards, executives, and deal teams on how cybersecurity risk affects valuation, representations and warranties, indemnification structures, insurance, and post-close integration, as well as risk allocation in key customer and commercial contracts. Justin has handled numerous high-stakes data breach matters, including ransomware and wire fraud incidents. While this experience informs his judgment, his focus is on proactively integrating cybersecurity considerations into transactions and long-term vendor and customer relationships.
In October 2022, Justin and his wife, Jodi Daniels, co-authored "Data Reimagined: Building Trust One Byte at a Time," a Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller that explores how organizations can build customer trust through thoughtful privacy and cybersecurity practices. Together, they have co-hosted the "She Said Privacy / He Said Security" podcast since 2021. The podcast is highly rated by multiple podcast rating agencies and features candid conversations with executives, lawyers, and technologists navigating real-world data, privacy, and security challenges.
A nationally recognized speaker, Justin has delivered keynote presentations at major industry conferences, including RSA, on topics spanning AI adoption, cybersecurity risk in M&A, and technological innovation versus privacy and security concerns. His speaking engagements are known for cutting through technology hype and showing how emerging tools actually affect deals, contracts, and enterprise risk.