AI Minister In, Tech Department Out – Is the UK Sidelining Tech for AI?

Dan Adams is a co-founder and director of Arbor Law with more than 20 years’ experience advising media and technology businesses on both legal and strategic matters. He began his career in 1999 at City law firms Olswang and Baker McKenzie before moving in-house as Senior Counsel at AOL Time Warner. He then completed an MBA at the University of Oxford and spent several years in senior business development and strategy roles at some of the world’s most recognisable media and technology businesses, including EMI, National Geographic, Dailymotion and ZEFR — before returning to legal practice and co-founding Arbor Law in 2019. This combination of City law training, in-house experience, executive leadership and first-hand involvement as a founder and investor gives Dan a perspective that is genuinely unusual in a legal adviser. He understands the pressures, decisions and trade-offs that founders and leadership teams face, not just as a lawyer looking in, but as someone who has been in the room. Dan has particular experience advising scale-ups from Series A through to exit, and his legal work spans corporate finance, M&A, IP licensing and data privacy.