Dan Maze is a finance partner in the London office of Latham & Watkins and Co-Chair of the London Finance Department. He has a wide range of experience representing lenders and borrowers in syndicated and private credit leveraged financings, investment grade acquisition facilities, restructurings, and emerging markets loans. His clients include European and US banks, direct lenders and credit funds, and corporate borrowers.

Dan was named by The American Lawyer as its 2015 "Transatlantic Finance Dealmaker of the Year" for his leadership on the US$22 billion cross-border bank and bond financing provided to Altice and Numericable for the acquisition of French telecoms company SFR.

Dan's experience includes advising:

  • A group of 22 mandated lead arrangers on the €8.65 billion US$ and Euro senior secured credit facilities and senior secured notes for CD&R’s acquisition of a 50% stake in Opella, the consumer health division of Sanofi
  • The lead arrangers on the US$8.3 billion financing for Atlas Investissement’s public tender offer for the shares and SDRs of Millicom
  • The mandated lead arrangers on the £1.6 billion term loan B and high-yield bonds for Motor Fuel Group’s acquisition of 340 petrol forecourts from Morrisons
  • Deutsche Bank on the financing of the acquisition by Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners of Valoriza Servicios Medioambientales, the environmental services subsidiary of the Sacyr group
  • JP Morgan as mandated lead arranger on the cross-border US$130 million term loan B credit facility and SEK2.1 billion sustainability-linked revolving credit facility for Oatly
  • A group of direct lenders on the TLB add-on facility for the acquisition by IFS, an EQT portfolio company, of P2 Energy Solutions
  • A group of direct lenders on the financing for EQT’s acquisition of Envirotainer, the leading global provider of mission-critical biopharma transport services
  • The mandated lead arrangers on the £6.6 billion term loan B, revolving credit and high-yield bridge facilities for CD&R’s take-private acquisition of Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC
  • Credit Suisse, Barclays, and HSBC as lead arrangers on the term loan B and revolving facilities for S4 Capital, the digital-first marketing services group
  • The revolving facility lenders on the financial restructuring and refinancing of Matalan
  • Deutsche Bank, Natixis, and Société Générale as mandated lead arrangers on the €1.93 billion cross-border senior secured credit facilities, senior secured notes, and senior notes financing for Banijay Group's acquisition of Endemol Shine
  • The lead arrangers on the US$350 million bridge loan for Impala Platinum's take-private acquisition of North American Palladium
  • The lead arrangers on the first and second lien facilities for the acquisition of WSH Investments by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
  • The lenders on the €135 million and C$145 million second lien facilities for EQT’s acquisition of Azelis
  • The mandated lead arrangers on the €410 million term loan and revolving credit facilities provided to 3i portfolio company, Weener Plastics, to refinance existing debt and acquire Proenfar, a Colombia-based packaging group
  • Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Credit Agricole on the €2.625 billion cross-border senior secured facilities for Altran’s acquisition of Aricent Technologies
  • UBS as sole underwriter of the €320 million first and second lien facilities for BC Partners’ acquisition of Pronovias, a Spanish bridal wear designer
  • The mandated lead arrangers on the €1.625 billion senior credit facilities for Lone Star's acquisition of the Xella Group
  • UBS, JP Morgan, Nomura, Royal Bank of Canada, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch as mandated lead arrangers on the €790 million covenant-lite senior secured facilities for the acquisition of Keter Plastic by BC Partners, as well as the incremental facilities for the bolt-on acquisitions of ABM Italia and Adams Manufacturing
  • The mandated lead arrangers on the senior secured facilities for EQT's take-provate acquisition of Swedish public company, IFS AB
  • Citibank as a mandated arranger on the senior facilities provided to Warburg Pincus and General Atlantic to acquire a 49% stake in Network International, the Emirati payments provider, as well as advising Citi on the conventional term loan and murabaha facilities provided to Network International for the follow-on acquisition of Emerging Market Payments Holdings (Mauritius) Limited
  • EQUATE Petrochemical Company in connection with the US$6 billion bridge facility for the acquisition of ME Global, as well as the US$5 billion conventional and murabaha term and revolving facilities established for the refinancing of the bridge facility
  • The mandated lead arrangers on the €6 billion cross-border bank and bond financing for the acquisition by Altice S.A. of Portugal Telecom from Oi S.A.
  • The mandated lead arrangers on the US$22 billion cross-border bank and bond financing provided to Altice and Numericable Group for the acquisition of French telecoms operator SFR
  • Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, and HSBC as mandated lead arrangers in connection with the US$555 million cross-border, covenant-lite first and second lien facilities provided to Montagu Private Equity for the acquisition of Rexam plc’s pharmaceutical devices and prescription retail packaging divisions
  • Credit Agricole, Goldman Sachs, Nomura, and Natixis as mandated lead arrangers in connection with the €818 million senior covenant-lite facility arranged for the management buy-out of Ceva Sante Animale

Bar Qualification

  • England and Wales (Solicitor)
  • Ontario

Education

  • LLB, Queen's University, 1994
  • AB, Princeton University, 1990