DMH Stallard LLP

Corporate

Partner

Provides strategic advice and specialises in mergers, acquisitions, disposals, and project management of cross-border and international transactions across multiple jurisdictions.

Danos is a corporate finance lawyer with a career spanning almost 20 years specialising in mergers and acquisitions, MBOs, disposals, Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs), corporate structuring, bank and private funding (including venture capital and private equity) and security work, off-shore and international transactional work and joint ventures across a broad range of industries.

Danos prides himself on developing strong personal relationships and working closely with entrepreneurs and owner managers with the aim of understanding their specific motivations and needs. This allows him to become their trusted advisor and, in doing so, provide bespoke legal advice, project manage transactions and to negotiate accordingly.

During his career, he has acted for clients in a variety of industries ranging in size from start-ups to £300m+ turnover businesses. As a result, he has developed particular expertise in a number of sectors including: aviation logistics, builders' merchants and suppliers, food, recruitment, market research and analysis, conferences and events, consultancy and procurement, facilities management, manufacturing, travel, retail, energy, IT and insurance, off-shore unit trust and SPVs.

Danos regularly advises his clients on finance and security arrangements (including relating to securing consideration structures in M&A work and day to day commercial operational requirements) as well as group refinancing packages. A recent example of his work includes acting for Network Aviation Group on its receivables finance, term loan and security arrangements across its multi-jurisdictional group structure.

Danos is involved in offering strategic advice and is regularly called on to project manage cross-border and international transactions across multiple jurisdictions.

Work highlights

Acting as Group General Counsel for Network Aviation Group, an aviation cargo logistics and management specialist, advising on various corporate matters, corporate structuring and national/international transactional work.

Advising the selling shareholders of MS Roofing Supplies on its acquisition by Independent Builders Merchant Group.

Advising the selling shareholder of the AVS Group Holdings Limited on the sale of the company to Lawsons Holdings Limited.