Dan's practice focuses on business transactions and counseling, with emphasis on acquisitions, joint ventures and energy project finance, as well as disputes over ownership of businesses. Clients for whom Dan works participate in numerous industries, including solar energy, petroleum, medical equipment, apparel, semiconductor equipment, biotechnology, software, real estate, retail and banking. Dan joined the firm in 1974.
Education
University of California, Berkeley (A.B., Phi Beta Kappa, 1968); Harvard Law School (J.D., magna cum laude, 1973); Senior Editor, Harvard Law Review. Dan clerked for Justice Tobriner on the California Supreme Court.
Admissions & Courts
California.
Memberships
State Bar of California; Bar Association of San Francisco.
Representative Engagements
- Acquisition of Thermo Cardiosystems by Thoratec. Client: Thoratec.
- Permanent financing for Nellis Air Force Base solar photovoltaic project. Client: MMA Renewable Ventures.
- Development financing for multiple Southern California solar thermal projects. Client: BrightSource Energy.
- Acquisition of Miami Cruiselines by LVMH Möet Hennessy Louis Vuitton. Client: LVMH Möet Hennessy Louis Vuitton.
- Acquisition of ProFound Pharma A/S by Maxygen. Client: Maxygen.
- Sale of controlling interest in the domestic DHL company and substantial minority interest in the foreign DHL company. Client: The estate of the principal founder of DHL.
- Merger of four publicly-traded REITs into a newly-formed, NYSE-traded fifth REIT. Client: Meridian Industrial Trust.
- Petroleum development and oil and gas pipeline consortia in the Republics of Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. Client: Delta International.
- Vishay tender offers for traded minority interests in Siliconix. Client: Special Committee of the Siliconix board of directors.
- Resolution of ownership issues at the U.S. and foreign Esprit de Corp entities. Client: Susie Tompkins.
- Acquisition of the DMD business of VERITAS Software by Sonic Solutions. Client: Sonic Solutions.
- Sale of multiple businesses of Watkins-Johnson. Client: Watkins-Johnson.
- Sale of John LaBatt Limited's U.S. and foreign food businesses to H.J. Heinz & Co. Client: John LaBatt Limited.
- Equity and debt financings for DFS (duty free shops). Client: DFS.
- Negotiated tender offer by Raychem and follow-on merger for publicly-held Sigmaform. Client: Raychem.
- Equity and debt project financing for 500-windmill energy project in California's Altamont Pass. Client: U.S. Windpower.
- Hostile takeover fight for publicly-held Pay Less Drugstores. Client: Jewel Companies, Inc.
- Retailing joint venture between Levi Strauss & Co. and Designs, Inc. Client: Levi Strauss & Co.
- Acquisitions of banks and mortgage companies by Wilshire Financial Services Group, Inc. Client: Wilshire Financial Services Group, Inc.
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