Daniel Yip

Partner Mergers & Acquisitions Private Equity

New York +1 212 390 4138

Practices

Overview

Daniel Yip is a corporate partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Daniel's practice is focused on public and private company mergers and acquisitions, as well as advising companies with respect to corporate governance, securities and strategic matters, activist defense, joint ventures and other general corporate matters. He regularly acts for public companies and their boards of directors, as well as private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Daniel was an associate at a leading Canadian law firm, where he maintained a broad general corporate practice that included mergers and acquisitions, securities and corporate finance.

Pathfinder Acquisition Corporation (NASDAQ: PFDR), a special purpose acquisition company, in its $537 million business combination with Movella, a fullstack provider of sensors, software, and analytics that enable the digitization of movement

Special Committee of Safehold on its merger with iStar and spinoff of iStar assets

HGGC on its $115 million strategic equity investment in Upland Software

Allwyn Entertainment and KKCG Investment Group in the $9.3 billion NYSE Listing of Allwyn

Durational Capital Management on its acquisition of Casper Sleep Inc.

Wheels, Inc. in its combination with Donlen, LLC

Pathfinder Acquisition Corporation on its proposed $1.4 billion business combination with ServiceMax, Inc.

BBAM on Fly Leasing Limited’s $2.36 billion sale to Carlyle Aviation Partners

Starwood Capital Group on its acquisition of Extended Stay America in a joint venture with Blackstone for approximately $6 billion

Sustainable Opportunities Acquisition Corporation in its $2.9 billion business combination with DeepGreen Metals

Francisco Partners and Renaissance Learning in its acquisition of Nearpod

Stikeman Elliott LLP, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  • Associate, 2017–2020
  • Articled Student, 2016–2017
  • Summer Law Student, 2015

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Thought Leadership

Publications

Judicial Forecasting: When All Is Not As It Seems, 8 H. K. J. Legal. Stud. 169 (2014)

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • Not admitted to practice in New York
  • 2017, British Columbia, Canada

Education

  • University of TorontoJ.D.
    Senior Editor, University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review
  • University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolLL.M.with Distinction
    Associate Editor, University of Pennsylvania East Asia Law Review
  • University of British ColumbiaB.Sc., Chemistry & English Literature