Daniel Rayner is managing partner of Rayner Rowe LLP located in New York City, the firm he founded in 1999. He is admitted to the New York Bar and is also a Solicitor in England. Daniel’s practice focuses on transactional work with an emphasis on the media, entertainment, technology and advertising sectors. He is a member of the board of directors of The National Dance Institute and lives in Manhattan with his wife and two daughters.

Daniel is a graduate of The University of Leeds (B.A. 1982), College of Law Lancaster Gate (CPE, Order of Merit, 1983 and Solicitor’s Finals Examination 1984) and Brooklyn Law School (JD, 1994). He was associated with Kramer Levin and O’Sullivan Graev & Karabell (subsequently O’Melveny & Meyers) before founding the firm.

Daniel’s practice comprises representing corporations and entrepreneurs, primarily in the media, advertising, entertainment and technology sectors, and investors in connection with: mergers and acquisitions; development, financing and distribution of media properties and their sale and financing; executive employment agreements; and emerging growth companies and their financing.

Daniel counsels U.S and U.K public and private corporations at varying stages of growth, from start-up through mature public company in transactions that have ranged from seed financings to $1billion cross-border public takeover and buyout and M&A transactions. 

He represents senior executives in the media and advertising sectors in negotiating their employment and compensation arrangements.

Representative clients in the media and advertising sectors include: Smuggler; Co: Collective; Broadway Near You; Manchester United; Kinetic Content; Raw TV; Atlas Media Corp.; Shed Media; Ricochet; Fabrik (formerly Fuse) Entertainment; STV; DRG; Betty; Twenty Twenty; Northern & Shell and Mentorn.

Representative television series representations include: Betty White’s Off Their Rockers (NBC); Paranormal Witness (NBC); The Taste (ABC); You Deserve It! (ABC); Supernanny (ABC); Gold Rush (Discovery); Locked Up Abroad (National Geographic); Super Manny (ABC); Fat March (ABC); Footballers’ Wives (Touchstone/ABC); Challenge America with Erin Brokovich (ABC); Perez Hilton Superfan (ITV2); Basketball Wives (VH1); Kissinger (National Geographic); Real Housewives of New York City (Bravo); Bethenny Gets Married (Bravo); Thintervention (Bravo); World’s Strictest Parents (CMT and MTV); Freaky Eaters (TLC); Harvest (History); Juvie Parole (A&E), X-Prize (National Geographic), It’s Me or the Dog (Animal Planet).     

Recent client representations in corporate transactions in the media sector include:

-        Fabrik (formerly Fuse) Entertainment (The Killing and Burn Notice) and its principals Mikkel Bondesen and Henrik Bastin in relation to an investment by Pro Sieban Sat1’s Red Arrow Entertainment Group.    

-        Northern & Shell Plc. (Owner of Channel 5 and Express Newspapers) on its sale of OK! Magazine in the U.S and Canada. 

-        Broadway Near You LLC on its fundraising activities and its Stagecast rights acquisition strategy.

-        Kinetic Content LLC in relation to its investment from Red Arrow Entertainment Group.