Profession
Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales
Experience
Dan is a corporate partner who specialises in public and private M&A, joint ventures, equity capital markets transactions and corporate restructuring work, with a focus on the financial services (in particular insurance) sector. His transaction experience includes advising:
- AXA on the acquisition of HSBC’s general insurance business and related long-term bancassurance distribution arrangements in Asia and Mexico
- RBS on the consortium bid for ABN AMRO, its Sempra Energy joint venture and its recapitalisations by HM Treasury
- Lloyds Banking Group on the sale of Abbey Life to Deutsche Bank
- on the HSBC rights issue and the IPOs of Promethean and Ocado
- Hershey and Costain on their respective possible bids for Cadbury and Mouchel
- RTL Group on its investments in and disposals of Channel 5 (UK) and Alpha Media Group (Greece)
- on the financial restructurings / sales of GAME Group and DYWIDAG-Systems International
Professional experience
2010 to date Partner, Linklaters LLP
2010 - Secondment to Goldman Sachs, Investment Banking Division
2006 to 2010 Managing Associate, Linklaters LLP
2006 - Secondment to RBS, Group Transactions & Projects
2002 - 2006 Associate, Linklaters
2000 - 2002 Trainee Solicitor, Linklaters
Education
1995 - 1998 London School of Economics, LL.B
Languages
English, German, Spanish
