Daniel J. Gershman, Esq.

Professional Experience

Daniel J. Gershman, Esq. is a Senior-level Associate in FRB’s Corporate & Securities, Digital Assets, Labor & Employment, and Cannabis & Psychedelics Practice Groups.

Leveraging a practice that sits at the intersection of cutting-edge technology, highly regulated industries, and traditional corporate law, Daniel serves as trusted outside counsel to founders, growth-stage companies, investors, and multi-state operators.

Daniel’s corporate and commercial work spans the full life-cycle of an enterprise from entity formation and capitalization through exit. He routinely drafts and negotiates formation and governing documents, agreements related to financings, and legacy and succession planning agreements. His transactional experience includes representing buyers and sellers in equity and asset acquisitions, mergers, and joint ventures. Because these matters often implicate parallel disciplines, Daniel is fluent in the real-estate, intellectual-property, and tax considerations that must be harmonized to close a deal efficiently and compliantly.

In the rapidly evolving AI and data-privacy space, Daniel counsels clients on the full spectrum of data privacy compliance and risk mitigation. He drafts bespoke privacy policies, terms of use, data-processing agreements, and cross-border transfer mechanisms that align with the CCPA/CPRA, the GDPR, and the emerging privacy regimes of other state jurisdictions. Daniel also designs internal governance frameworks, including data-minimization protocols and incident-response plans, thereby equipping clients to innovate while satisfying the mounting expectations of regulators, consumers, and business partners.

Daniel also guides cultivators, processors, distributors, dispensaries, and ancillary-service providers through the labyrinth of corporate, licensing, and regulatory hurdles involved in the New York and New Jersey cannabis industries. He structures ownership and investment vehicles to comply with state residency, social-equity, and financial-disclosure requirements; prepares and negotiates service, management, and equity purchase agreements tailored to cannabis operations.

Across all engagements, Daniel’s goal is to translate sophisticated legal requirements into actionable business strategies. By coupling meticulous attention to statutory detail with a keen understanding of market dynamics, he empowers clients to anticipate risk, seize opportunity, and scale with confidence in an era defined by technological disruption and regulatory change.