Daniel G. Berick Partner

Daniel Berick focuses his practice on securities law, corporate finance and corporate transactional matters. He counsels public and privately held companies in the issuance of equity and debt securities; mergers, acquisitions and dispositions; securities law compliance; and general corporate matters. Dan regularly represents investment banking firms in public and private offerings of securities and in a wide range of other securities matters including financial advisory engagements and fairness opinions. He also advises venture capital firms and private equity and hedge fund sponsors and investors in connection with fund formation and structuring, portfolio company investments, acquisitions and dispositions, and securities and corporate law matters.

Dan is the regional coordinator of the Americas for Squire Sanders’ global Corporate Transactions, Finance & Governance Practice Group.

As he has been in previous years, Dan is listed in the 2012 edition of The Best Lawyers in America for corporate law, securities law, leveraged buyouts and private equity law, and mergers and acquisitions law. In addition, he was named Best Lawyers’ 2011 Cleveland Securities Lawyer of the Year. He was named as an Ohio Super Lawyer for 2011 and 2012 by Thomson Reuters and has been listed in The Legal 500 US as a key member of Squire Sanders’ M&A practice. Dan has been appointed to membership on The Committee on Corporate Laws of the American Bar Association’s Section of Business Law and is a frequent speaker and writer on securities and corporate law topics. He is also a member of the Ohio State Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association’s Sections of Corporation and Business Law, Securities Law, and Banking and Financial Services Law.

Dan is affiliated with numerous other professional associations and organizations including the Association for Corporate Growth and the Society of Corporate Secretaries & Governance Professionals. He has served as the corporate secretary of an AMEX-listed manufacturing company and was the corporate secretary of an NYSE-listed real estate investment trust for more than 13 years, from its initial public offering (IPO) through its acquisition by a private real estate fund in a transaction valued at more than US$1 billion. Dan has also served as director or corporate secretary of a number of privately held companies.

Representative Experience

• Representing one of the largest bank-based US financial services companies in its US$1 billion public offering of senior medium-term notes, its US$625 million public offering of common shares, its US$1 billion at-the-market public offering of common shares, its exchange offers for approximately US$2 billion of publicly held securities, its US$1.75 billion public offering of common shares and noncumulative perpetual convertible preferred stock and its US$750 million public offering of senior medium-term notes.
• Representing a Nasdaq-listed Europe-based global information technology company in connection with its IPO, a US$200 million Rule 144A offering, a US$103 million PIPE offering of ordinary shares, two underwritten public offerings of ordinary shares and its acquisition via a tender offer valued at US$2 billion.
• Representing the underwriters of multiple public offerings of senior debt securities by an NYSE-listed global manufacturer of industrial coatings and sealants, with a total aggregate principal amount of US$700 million. 
• Representing one of the two co-sponsors of a special-purpose acquisition company in connection with its US$375 million IPO.
• Representing the underwriters of a public offering by an NYSE-listed international specialty metals company of five million shares of common stock.
• Representing an NYSE-listed real estate investment trust in its registered direct placement of 1.4 million Common Shares of Beneficial Interest and its Rule 144A offering of US$74.75 million principal amount of Convertible Senior Notes due 2023.
• Representing issuers or underwriters in several de novo community bank IPOs.
• Representing a global specialty chemicals company in connection with the private placement of US$550 million principal amount of its Senior Subordinated Increasing Rate Bridge Notes.

• Representing a Nasdaq-listed Europe-based global information technology company in connection with its acquisition by a French public company, via tender offer, in a transaction valued at US$2 billion.
• Representing a UK-based packaging manufacturer in a US$30 million acquisition, its first in the United States.
• Representing a US-based company listed on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM in connection with its acquisition via merger by a UK-based public company.
• Representing a multibillion-dollar NYSE-listed business information technology and services company in connection with a series of ten strategic acquisitions over a four-year period.
• Representing a private investment group in connection with its acquisition of a significant ownership interest in a National Football League franchise.  
• Representing a private equity fund in connection with its investment in an equity consortium formed for the US$590 million acquisition of a global die-cast metal parts business.
• Representing a privately held pharmacy benefits provider in its US$630 million acquisition via merger.
• Representing a private equity firm in its role as standby purchaser in connection with a public offering of common stock purchase rights by a bank holding company.
• Representing a private investment group in its US$135 million acquisition of a logistics company.
• Representing a private equity fund as standby purchaser in the public offering of preferred stock purchase rights by an oil and gas company.

• Representing a pharmacy benefits technology services business in its structure, formation and initial rounds of venture capital financing.
• Representing a telemedicine services business in its equity restructure and venture equity capitalization.
• Advising in the formation and initial capital raising of a startup consumer products company and the out-license of its core product to a global market leader.
• Representing a business information services and consulting company in connection with its initial venture capitalization and four subsequent investment rounds. 
• Representing a medical diagnostics company in connection with its formation, seed investment and subsequent rounds of venture financing.
• Representing a startup print and online media company in connection with its formation, seed capital and several subsequent venture financings.
• Representing a privately held pharmacy benefits provider in connection with its receipt of US$25 million in initial venture funding and its subsequent US$630 million liquidity event.
• Representing a private equity fund in connection with the development of its specialty equity finance product and numerous investment transactions.

• Representing public pension plans and other institutional investors in connection with the negotiation and structuring of their limited partnership investments in private equity funds, funds-of-funds and real estate opportunity funds.
• Representing a private equity firm in connection with its formation of several single- and multi-strategy onshore and offshore hedge fund vehicles.
• Representing a private investment firm in connection with its making a lead investment in a hedge fund and offshore parallel fund and the structuring and negotiation of its revenue sharing agreement with the fund manager.
• Representing an institutional fund sponsor in connection with a restructuring of its fund-of-funds investment platform.
• Representing a private equity firm in connection with the establishment of a hedge fund concentrating on microcap public equities.
• Representing a fund sponsor group in connection with the establishment of a large-cap quantitative strategy hedge fund and the negotiation of seed investment and marketing arrangements.
• Representing a private equity fund formed to make investments in minority-owned and minority-managed enterprises in connection with its formation and its multiple investment transactions.