Daniel Watterson Email & Phone Number

New Zealand

Providing bespoke legal and business services to private clients in the screen and creative industries, leveraging commercial, senior legal, and hands-on industry knowledge. W.E.L's point of difference is that it is by creatives for creatives. Watterson of W.E.L has extensive experience not just as a former senior commercial lawyer, but a successful creative practitioner in the film, television, theatre, and voice industries.W.E.L offers specialist legal and business services to clients in the screen industry who want more than just one-size-fits-all commercial advice. Clients who want bespoke services from someone who’s been where they have, and who really gets it. Someone who understands the people, the process, the policies, the pitfalls, the peculiarities, & the passions, not just the legislative and contractual landscape. A legal advisor who gets it.Contact Dan now for professional legal advice, contract negotiation, legal drafting, and more.

Auckland, New Zealand

Designer and Creative Director for Mind Over Manner's new digital outreach: leveraging digital modes of connection and content creation to reach, engage, and connect with vulnerable teens in a positive way that supports their wellbeing.Mind Over Manner is a charitable organisation that presents theatre inspired workshops to ignite social change in our communities. Our objectives are to strengthen communication and connection with teenagers who think, learn and work differently.

Auckland, New Zealand

www.danielwatterson.com

Daniel Watterson is a highly accomplished actor and voice artist. Some of Daniel’s previous voice clients include international brands such as Heineken, Anchor, Exyte, and Power Rangers.Check out Daniel’s demo reels and featured examples of past work at http://danielwatterson.com/voice-reel/

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Contract specialist, responsible for drafting and advising on commercial contracts, letters, company documents, and other legal instruments.

Auckland

Trust Board member and legal advisor to the Auckland Shakespeare Trust, an arts organisation dedicated to teaching Shakespeare, and producing stage adaptations for young actors.

Arts Educator running Lake House Arts Virtual Realty Club and School Holiday Program, teaching primary and High School students:- VR 360 Painting using Google Blocks and Google Tiltbrush;- creating, filming, and viewing 360 video, using Google Cardboard.

Auckland, New Zealand

General Counsel and Head of Commercial Partnerships:- advising on risk and strategy;- assisting to negotiate commercial contracts and partnerships;- drafting contracts.

Daniel was the international brand ambassador, face and spokesperson, for the international launch campaign of global tech start-up, Kradle Software. For the launch and marketing, Daniel hosted client sponsored events at the largest tech conferences in the world including London Tech Week and Collision Conference (New Orleans).

Auckland, New Zealand

Advisor and Advocate to AUT Students.All manner of student legal advice, with a focus on representing and advising AUT students in disciplinary or dispute resolution with AUT.

Auckland, New Zealand

Senior Investigator in the Professional Conduct Investigation arm of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. Investigating and prosecuting disciplinary charges against Chartered Accountants for breaches of the Code of Ethics and/or professional and technical accounting standards, before Professional Conduct Committees and Disciplinary Tribunals.

Sole counsel representing the Crown in 13 jury trials, plus various pre-trial applications.

London, England, United Kingdom

Scholarship granting 3 months work experience under a number of Judges, barristers, and solicitors in London, including: QEB Hollis Whiteman; Garden Court Chambers; and Judge's Clerk at the Southwark County Court.

Daniel advised and advocated for major commercial clients, across multiple industries and sectors, facing or settling multi-million dollar legal disputes. These were principally contractual in nature, requiring an expert level of understanding about drafting and enforcing contractual rights and responsibilities, as well as advising on strategic and procedural risk.During his tenure at Minter Ellison, New Zealand also experienced the 2008-11 GFC, which meant Daniel’s team assisted and advised many clients about the financial and legal implications of this major economic event.Highlights include settling contractual disputes for (for instance): multi-million dollar joint-venture energy contracts (e.g. exploration, production, exploitation, and distribution agreements); international distribution rights for IT software; asset sale and purchase agreements; lending and securities contracts for major NZ banks; financial services (e.g. tax/audit & assurance) agreements; and health sector service contracts.Daniel also appeared as lead counsel and junior counsel in various civil proceedings in the District Court, High Court, and Court of Appeal. Proceedings were typically high value (multimillion) complex multi-party commercial disputes in such sectors as:energy/competitioncontractprivacy and defamationbanking and summary judgmentinsurancepublic authority liabilityprofessional disciplinaryauditing and financetaxprofessional negligencetreasury

Auckland, New Zealand

Sole author contracted to research and write “Law of Torts: New Zealand Law and Practice Examination Study Guide" (College of Law New Zealand, 2008).

Wellington, New Zealand

2006: Tutor for Case Law (100 level requisite University paper)Teaching groups of 10-20 University students 3 to 4 times every week of the semester. Helping them to understand the material, interrogate the material critically, and pass examinations.2007: Tutor for Tort Law (200 level requisite University paper)Teaching groups of 10-20 University students 3 to 4 times every week of the semester. Helping them to understand the material, interrogate the material critically, and pass examinations.2007: Tutor for Maori and Pacific Island Students - Tort Law Extra tutorials designed to assist disadvantaged, or non-privileged students. *NB: I was also assistant marker for Law of Torts exam, 2008.

Auckland, New Zealand

Acting And Performing Arts

NZ's leading professional school for acting

Bachelor Of Laws (Llb) (Hons, 1St), Ba (Literature, Theatre), Law, Literature, Theatre