Private Equity/M&A
Dan has been a key technology and IP advisor in numerous acquisitions and divestitures representing private equity sponsors and other clients. Representative clients include: Madison Dearborn Partners, Bain Capital, Thomas H. Lee, The Blackstone Group, Apax Partners, Linden Capital Partners, and Water Street Healthcare Partners.
Representative transactions include:
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Francisco Partners in its carve-out acquisition of Capsule Technologies, a provider of medical device connectivity technology, from Qualcomm Inc.
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General Motors in its $2.25 billion investment from the SoftBank Vision Fund in GM Cruise Holdings LLC, GM's autonomous vehicle (AV) business, at a $11.5 billion valuation
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Thoma Bravo in its $950 million carve-out acquisition of Symantec’s SSL business
- Bain Capital with:
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Accenture in its $830 million carve-out sale of the Navitaire travel systems business to, and long-term strategic alliance with, Amadeus SA
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Madison Dearborn Partners in numerous transactions, including: the carve-out of Walgreens Infusion Services from Walgreens, the acquisition of Enterprise DNS solutions provider, BlueCat; and sale of leading over-the-top (OTT) video provider, QuickPlay Media, Inc.
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Thomas H. Lee Partners in numerous transactions, including: the acquisition of online real estate marketplace, Ten-X; the acquisition of enterprise content management software provider, Alfresco Software; the acquisition of advanced parcel sortation system provider, Material Handling Systems; the acquisition of furniture retailer, Art Van Furniture; and the sale of Agencyport Software Corp.
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The Blackstone Group in its acquisition, along with Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division, of Ipreo Holdings LLC
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Apax Partners in its acquisition of Align Networks and One Call Care Management
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Water Street Healthcare Partners in its carve-out sale to Wipro of HealthPlan Services, a technology and business process as a service provider in the health insurance market
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Northwestern Mutual in its acquisition of LearnVest, a web-based financial planning company
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Infosys Limited in its acquisition of Panaya, Inc., a leading provider of automation technology for large scale enterprise software management
Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances
Representative transactions include:
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Joint venture to build fiber optic networks
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Strategic alliance between Japan Airlines and American Airlines
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Joint venture to establish offshore manufacturing facilities
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Strategic alliance to develop and commercialize cloud computing platform
Software and Technology
Representative transactions include:
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$800 million Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) deal
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$100 million enterprise resource planning (ERP) license and implementation
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Proprietary software development and maintenance deals
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Exclusive and non-exclusive source code licenses
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Open source software counseling
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Numerous cloud computing, SaaS and other “as a Service” deals, software license agreements, hosting agreements, software and IT system implementations, and other technology license and services deals
Information Technology and Business Process Outsourcing
Representative transactions include:
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$350 million IT Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) deal
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Multi-billion dollar IT outsourcing initiative involving deals with eight providers
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Multiple telecommunications network services outsourcing deals
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Multi-billion dollar asset management services outsourcing deal
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Numerous other IT and business process outsourcing deals
Pharma and Healthcare
Representative transactions include:
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$350 million drug development collaboration
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Exclusive license and distribution deals
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Acquisition and sale of drug product lines
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Numerous supply and manufacturing agreements
Restructuring / Bankruptcy
Representative clients include: