Dan Stanton

Dan’s Career

From 2006 to 2014, Dan practised as a corporate lawyer specialising in M&A, private equity transactions and general corporate advisory work in one of the world’s leading law firm’s, practising in the City of London and New York.

In 2014, he left the City to develop his own independent commercial legal practice focused on the SaaS sector. In 2021, Dan founded Clearlake to build a new generation of legal services provider.

Dan’s Experience

Dan’s most recent legal work includes:

Software-as-a-service – Advising an international fintech SaaS provider on its move from an on-premise deployment model to a cloud deployment model, drafting a full set of template cloud SaaS contracts and negotiating a first cloud-based deal with a large financial institution.

Platform-as-a-service – Advising a well-known fintech business on a series of PaaS deals with a number of large financial institutions around the world, as well as working through the detailed intellectual property licensing arrangements with suppliers sitting behind his client’s advanced platform.

Corporate & commercial – Negotiating a complex series of related commercial and corporate investment agreements on behalf of a financial technology company with a major international financial institution to develop a global technology and financial services partnership.

Supply chain IP – Reviewing a financial platform’s various third party licensing arrangements and onward IP commitments to its customers, ensuring licensing compliance throughout the chain and renegotiating terms with suppliers accordingly alongside the client’s internal procurement team.

Business process outsourcing – Advising a SaaS company on a complex administration services outsourcing agreement with a large international outsourcing specialist.

Dan’s Qualifications

The London School of Economics, London, BSc Government, 2003

City University School of Law, London, Graduate Diploma in Law, 2005

BPP Law School, London, Legal Practice Course, 2006

Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England & Wales, admitted October 2008

Dan is a practising solicitor, authorised and regulated by the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority in England and Wales, with authorisation number 413202.