Dan specialises in private equity transactions acting for PE sponsors, management teams and investee companies. He also focuses on M&A transactions (buy-side and sell-side) for a number of corporate clients and has experience across a variety of sectors.
Recent experience includes advising:
- Livingbridge on its investments into Quorum Cyber and Nourish Care respectively;
- Cow Corner on its disposal of ISMS.online to ECI Partners;
- Cow Corner on the refinancing of One Point Advisory Services and growth investment from Summit Partners;
- 4D Capital on its acquisitions and investments into Hepworth Clay and JJO PLC respectively;
- GEMS Education on various transactions, including the disposal of its international schools based in Singapore and Malaysia respectively, in each case to TPG Capital backed XCL Education;
- the shareholders of Vectare Limited on its sale to TA Associates backed Faria Education;
- YFM and management on the sale of Displayplan to Blackstone backed HH Global;
- the shareholders of Bramble Foods Limited on its sale to LDC and subsequent reinvestment;
- the shareholders of Skycon Ltd on the £45m disposal to Better Collective A/S.
Dan joined Shoosmiths as a Partner in 2020, having trained and qualified at DLA Piper (where he also completed a client secondment to Iron Mountain) followed by joining Eversheds Sutherland in 2015.