Danny McMann’s practice focuses on private equity. He represents private equity houses and financial sponsors and their portfolio companies on complex cross-border M&A transactions, across a range of industries and geographies.
Danny advises on all commercial legal matters, including acquisitions, carve-out transactions, minority and growth capital investments, exits, secondaries, joint ventures, capital raises, transaction and equity structuring, management incentivisation, governance, due diligence and reputational, regulatory and compliance risks.
Professional QualificationsAttorney-at-law admitted with the Supreme Court of New York
EXPERIENCE
Bain Capital:
on its acquisition of a majority stake in Maesa, a global beauty brand incubator;
on its acquisition of Bugaboo International, a Dutch design company that develops and produces mobility products;
and Cinven on their EUR 5.4b joint public takeover of the German pharmaceutical company Stada Arzneimittel AG;
and Carlyle on their EUR 3.4b joint public takeover offer for the German lighting company OSRAM Licht AG; and
and Advent International in structuring a management equity plan following their DKK17 billion acquisition of card-payment company Nets Holding AS.
EW Healthcare Partners:
on its acquisition of a majority stake in the French pharmaceutical company Laboratoires Majorelle;
on its EUR750m sale of EUSA Pharma;
and Cognate BioServices on their acquisition of Cobra Biologics, a leading international contract development and manufacturing organization; and
on its sale of EUSA Pharma’s critical care business to SERB Pharmaceuticals.
Starr Investment Holdings and ACA Compliance Group:
on the acquisition of Cordium, a leading provider of governance, risk and compliance products and services, from Ares;
on the sale of Cordium Malta Limited, a provider of compliance, risk, accounting and governance services for the investment management industry in Malta; and
on the sale of Wheelhouse Advisors (formerly Cordium Malta Limited), a compliance and accounting business, to Pelican Capital.
Summit Partners:
on the sale of its majority stake in Normec, a technology-enabled provider of testing, inspection and certification services, to Astorg; and
on its investment in Darktrace Limited, an AI company specialising in cyber security and defence systems.
Davidson Kempner European Partners on its joint venture acquisition of the Urban Pubs & Bars business.
SK Capital on its further investment in Archroma, a Swiss-headquartered provider of specialty chemicals.
Siris Capital and Mavenir Group, a software provider for CSPs, in connection with Silver Rock’s USD125m preferred financing investment in the Mavenir Group.
Mothercare Group in relation to the restructuring & administration sale of its franchise and brand business.
Starwood Capital Group:
on its acquisition of a 29.42% stake in London-listed RDI Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT); and
on its investment in CASAFARI, a leading real estate data platform.
Vitruvian Partners:
on its investment in CFC Underwriting, an independent managing general agent; and
on its acquisition of Phlexglobal, provider of electronic Trial Master File systems and services to the life sciences industry, from Bridgepoint Development Capital.
A consortium led by Drakewood Capital on their further investment in the Waybill/Virtus platform and acquisition of Small Tubes Products, a leading U.S. redrawer of niche, small diameter copper and aluminum tubes, from Quilvest.
Indigo Capital on its sale of Premier Research, a leading middle-market contract research organisation, to Metalmark Capital.
TowerBrook Capital Partners:
on its acquisition of Dutch frozen food producer Van Geloven from Lion Capital;
on its sale of a majority stake in Van Geloven to McCain Foods;
on its sale of a minority stake in the TowerBrook group to Wafra; and
on its acquisition of the Metallum group, a European leader in metals trading, recycling and logistics, from Alpha.
Education
Harvard Law School, J.D., 2014
University of British Columbia, B.A. Medal in Arts: Head of Class, 2009
Prior Experience
Danny was a partner in the London office of a top-tier U.S. law firm prior to joining DLA.
