Burges Salmon LLP

Corporate

Danny is a partner in the firm’s corporate finance team, having joined Burges Salmon’s new Scottish office in 2019. Danny specialises in corporate finance and company law, including M&A, joint ventures, private equity and restructurings. Danny covers a range of sectors, but with a particular focus on the energy sector (notably renewables), food and drink, technology and life sciences/pharma sectors. Recent experience includes: advising Panoramic Growth Equity on its investment in Big Drop Brewing Company; advising Fern Fibre Limited and Octopus Investments on the acquisition of internet service provider M12 Solutions and the Giganet brand together with a £250m funding package; advising Riverstone on the sale of Forsa Energy’s distributed flexible power generation platform to Tiger Infrastructure Partners; advising Calcivis on its equity investment by SIB and Archangels; advising Genus plc on its strategic investment in genetics improvement consultancy, Xelect.

Biggart Baillie, 1997-2005 (Trainee and Associate)

Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP, 2005-2019 (Partner since 2007)

Burges Salmon LLP, 2019-present (Partner)

Law Society of Scotland

University of Edinburgh (LLB (Hons) 1992-1996, Dip. LP (1997)).

Enjoys football, tennis, F1, travelling and music.