Dan Johnson of Equitable Law - A Short Bio

DAN JOHNSON

Dan is an extremely experienced corporate, commercial and business lawyer. He advises clients in relation to a wide range of transactional and financing matters and often acts in a senior general counsel role for clients, providing comprehensive ‘peace of mind' solutions to the issues they face.

Trained by Eversheds and with an early career including over five years as a Senior Associate with DLA Piper, Dan spent eight years as a Partner with commercial law firms in Central London (latterly comprising nearly four years as a Partner with Martineau), before devoting his full time attention to his legal consultancy business, 'Equitable Law' from 1st January 2011.

Dan qualified as a Solicitor in 1992.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Mergers & Acquisitions (Plus Other Business & Corporate Structure Transactions): Advising on business transactions and public and private company / share acquisitions, disposals, takeovers, mergers, demergers, reorganisations and other forms of M & A deals, both domestic and international.

• Private Securities Finance and Joint Ventures: Involved in all aspects of venture capital and private equity funds and the making, management and realisation of their early and development stage capital investments and leveraged / management buy-out transactions. Regularly acts for management teams and investee companies considering receipt of such finance. Extensive involvement in the formation, operation and dissolution of joint ventures.

• Public Securities Finance and Public Securities Markets Regulation: Advising on flotations, IPOs, secondary fund-raisings and other arrangements for the admission of securities to trading on public exchanges (both in London and on other global bourses), together with on-going regulatory and transactional advice and assistance to participants in such public securities markets. 

• Debt Finance (Including Banking) and Security Arrangements plus Insolvency: Advising on insolvency issues and a range of debt facilities on behalf of lenders (including banks and other debt finance providers) and borrowers.

• Taxation: Advising upon the taxation implications of transactions and financing arrangements.