Founding Partner
Daniel Vale
Daniel leads the firm's commercial contracts and disputes work, from negotiating agreements to litigating them.
Daniel co-founded Nexum Law with a view that the best contract lawyers understand how agreements fail in court, and the best litigators understand how deals are made.
He negotiates commercial agreements for clients across services, manufacturing and technology, and represents businesses in contract, partnership and shareholder disputes.
His dispute work begins with an early, written assessment of the client's position and a budget by phase.
Daniel's contract work centres on master services, supply and distribution agreements where one side is materially larger than the other. On the disputes side he handles breach of contract claims, partnership and shareholder disagreements and pre-suit negotiations, and he regularly represents clients in mediation before deciding whether litigation is worth its cost.
- Practice areas
- Commercial Contracts, Commercial Disputes and Litigation
- Education
J.D., University of Chicago Law School
B.A., History, Georgetown University
- Bar admissions
Illinois, 2009
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 2009
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 2013
- Professional memberships
Chicago Bar Association, Commercial Litigation Committee
Illinois State Bar Association
- Languages
- English
Experience includes
- Negotiation of master services, supply and distribution agreements
- Representation of businesses in breach of contract litigation
- Shareholder and partnership dispute resolution, including mediation
- Pre-litigation strategy and settlement negotiation
Publications and speaking
- "Limitation of liability clauses after the dispute starts", article, 2024
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