Commercial Counsel · Executive · Olympian

Daniel
Trenton

Legal precision and an athlete's discipline, applied to healthcare technology, investment, and the counsel of ambitious people.

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Daniel Trenton
Daniel Trenton
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From competitive sport to commercial law and healthcare technology.

Daniel is an Australian-admitted commercial lawyer and technology executive with deep experience in complex commercial transactions, technology agreements, and regulatory compliance for emerging technologies. As founder and Managing Director of a healthcare technology company, and as former CEO of a diversified investment firm, he has led sophisticated negotiations, structured multi-party deals, and consistently balanced legal risk with commercial objectives in fast-moving environments.

His background spans technology innovation, investment management, high-stakes stakeholder engagement, and international governance. It equips him to serve as strategic commercial counsel across diverse client segments and jurisdictions.

Olympic Silver
Sydney 2000
Founded
Lifecycle Technologies, 2015
Admitted
Australian Legal Practitioner
Rank
6th Dan, Taekwondo
II.

Leadership & executive experience.

2026 – Present

Principal

First Green Law & First Green Advisory

First Green Law and First Green Advisory provide dynamic tax, commercial, legal, accounting and advisory services built around the diverse needs of each client, with a practice shaped for family offices and principals managing complex, multi-generational wealth, from structuring and governance through succession.

2015 – Present

Managing Director & Founder

Lifecycle Technologies

Leads a technology company building proprietary software and predictive analytics to optimise treatment timing and personalised healthcare outcomes, structuring investment agreements, securing funding, and navigating precedent-light healthcare and technology regulation.

2019 – 2024

Chief Executive Officer

Jaszac Investments

Strategic direction across a portfolio spanning technology, healthcare, entertainment, property, and venture capital. Led the Western Melbourne Group project, a major sports, entertainment, health and residential precinct in Tarneit, for several years until early 2024.

2017 – 2024

Director & Principal Lawyer

Jaszac Trenton Lawyers

Founded a boutique commercial legal practice serving clients across technology, sport, entertainment, and property, providing practical, business-oriented counsel on complex commercial contracts.

2009 – 2015

Lawyer

JKLegal

Litigation support, contract advisory, and industrial relations counsel for national and international clients across sport, entertainment, and construction.

III.

Sport & governance.

2000 & 2004

Olympic Taekwondo, Silver Medalist

Sydney & Athens Olympic Games

Won silver in the heavyweight (+80kg) division at taekwondo's Olympic debut, Sydney 2000, before a partisan home crowd. Competed again at Athens 2004 and served on the AOC Athletes' Commission.

2008

Head Coach, Australian Olympic Team

Beijing Olympic Games

Led Australia's Olympic taekwondo team as head coach, drawing on his own Olympic competition experience.

2009 – 2024

Senior Vice President

World Taekwondo Oceania

Strategic growth, governance policy, sponsorship negotiations and funding across the Oceania region, working with government bodies and international stakeholders.

2008 – 2014

President

Sports Taekwondo Australia

Led the organisation through reform and expansion, securing major sponsorships, increasing athlete funding, and improving pathways to elite competition.

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Education, honours & patents.

2001 – 2009

Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.)

Monash University

Awarded an Academic Law Scholarship.

Honours

Australian Sports Star Award

National Recognition

Awarded alongside the Academic Law Scholarship, recognising performance across both sport and study.

Patents

Co-Inventor

Lifecycle Technologies

Proprietary methods and systems for determining physiological and immune status, used to optimise treatment timing and personalised healthcare outcomes.