Daniel Gabriel Email & Phone Number

Dubai, Ae

Daniel is the Global Director for Blockchain, Digital Assets & Central Bank Digital Currencies as the Compliance, Risk & Public Policy Lead. His focus includes compliance frameworks, risk, regulation and overall public policy within the digital assets, digital currency and custody space (including cryptocurrency, NFTs, stablecoins and CBDC). Daniel is currently working on client projects helping to navigate complex compliance issues for large global financial institutions and central banks.

• Global legal regulatory assessment and oversight, transactional expertise and executive leadership across Blockchain, Financial Services and BPO areas• Partnering with third party vendors across differing use cases and industries to create short and long term contractual relationships, go-to-market strategies, minority investments and product development initiatives• Regulatory focus on finance, digital assets, tokenization, blockchain/DLT, banking, capital markets, accounting, insurance, investment advisory, recruitment and procurement• Global Blockchain/DLT regulatory leadership (across all industries and use-cases)• Manage a global team of legal professionals responsible for implementing firm’s global legal blockchain, financial services and Cross-BPO position• Extensively counsel senior leaders, create knowledge capital and deliver training to senior business and legal professionals, including on tokenization, digital assets, currencies and broader finance related issues• Design and implement global regulatory programs from the ground up, negotiating complex regulatory positions with clients, building and managing internal regulatory positions, providing training, conducting risk assessments on deals and creating awareness of legal risk• Working with regulators, external counsel and lobbyists to influence and implement legal change• Responsible for an annual external counsel budget of approximately $2-3 million

• Transformed the Russian legal team, including hiring and training a new Director of Legal for Russia, re-installing internal business confidence in the legal team• Oversaw revised protocols for use of legal services for in-house counsel and the business• Focused on compliance, regulatory and ethics matters, and doing business in the region• Generated substantial cost savings through restructuring patterns of external counsel usage

• Managed 10 lawyers across the “Gallia” Legal Team (France, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg) to ensure legal team, business and client satisfaction. • Managed workload of the Legal Team, ensured delivery of service and managed the assignment of work among in-house lawyers and external counsel

UK transactional role working in financial services sector, primarily focused on complex and standard deals with financial clients and especially Accenture’s largest finance related client, a multinational UK Bank.

• Transform the legal team, including hiring a new Legal Director for the Netherlands, several other lawyers and re-installing internal business confidence in the legal team• Primary report to the Netherlands Country Managing Director and senior members of Accenture• Also managed workload of legal team and negotiated large scale outsourcing deals in excess of US$100 million

USA transactional role included large scale and complex deals with the largest banks, insurance companies and New York stock exchange. Took lead role in the largest financial services sector outsourcing deal on USA West Coast.

Australian transactional role across many sectors, including the financial services and insurance sectors. Took lead role in large and complex outsourcing deals for mining, telecommunications, insurance clients, including the largest outsourcing deal for a multinational Bank in Hong Kong.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Transactional lawyer in the firm’s IP and IT team. Gained significant exposure to deal negotiations across Australia, including managing interstate deals. Lead negotiations of IT services contracts, provided advice on IP issues and managed litigation and arbitration matters. Also focused on marketing to build up the practice and solely introduced a large medical IT company as a primary client.

Sydney, Australia: Bachelor Of Laws (L.L.B)

Sydney, Australia: Bachelor Of Arts (Ba) Majoring In Politics, Graduated With Honours