Daniel M. Latham is a partner in the M&A Practice Group, and is resident in the New York office.  Mr. Latham began his legal career with White & Case and represents a broad range of clients in domestic and cross-border public and private mergers, acquisitions, joint venture and restructuring transactions.  Mr. Latham has extensive experience in representing private equity and venture capital firms in connection with their acquisitions and dispositions of portfolio companies and also regularly advises several of the firm's corporate clients in connection with their corporate development initiatives.  Mr. Latham has also advised on several bankruptcy related matters including several Bankruptcy Code section 363 transactions.  He also provides general corporate, partnership and securities law advice.  Mr. Latham is a certified public accountant.

Representative corporate transactions include the representation of:

• Mobile Mini, Inc. in connection with its $715 million stock and cash acquisition of Mobile Storage Group, a portfolio company of Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe;
• Royal Ahold in connection with its $7.1 billion sale of U.S. Foodservice to an affiliate of private equity firms Kohlberg, Kravis Roberts & Co. and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and Ahold's $310 million sale of Tops Markets to Morgan Stanley Private Equity. Mr. Latham also represented Royal Ahold in connection with its acquisition of U.S. Foodservice in 2000;
• Tyco International in connection with its disposition program including the $975 million sale of Tyco Plastics to Apollo Management and the $135 million sale of Tyco's undersea fiber optic network known as the Tyco Global Network to the India-based telecommunications operator Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL);
• WellPoint, Inc. in connection with its sale of United Wisconsin Insurance Company to Accident Fund Insurance Company of America;
• Royal Ahold in connection with its $660 million sale of Ahold's BI-LO and Bruno's supermarket chains to private equity firm The Lone Star Funds. Mr. Latham also represented Ahold in connection with Ahold's acquisition of Bruno's;
• Bowne & Co. in connection with the sale of its global translations business, BGS Companies, with operations in 24 countries to Lionbridge Technologies; and
• Proha Plc, a Finnish publicly traded company, in connection with its acquisition of Opus360, a NASDAQ listed company.

Representative private equity and venture capital transactions include the representation of:

• Nordic Capital in connection with its $4.1 billion acquisition of the ConvaTec division of Bristol-Myers Squibb;
• Quad-C Management in connection with several recent portfolio company sponsor-to-sponsor sales including its sale of MW Industries to Brockway-Moran Partners and Universal Fibers to The Sterling Group;
• Red Diamond Capital in connection with its $120 million acquisition of Avon Automotive from Avon Rubber P.l.c.;
• Deutsche Bank AG in connection its $1.6 billion sale of its late-stage private equity portfolio in a management sponsored buy-out led by MidOcean Capital Partners, which was among the largest and most complex secondary buyouts ever completed;
• BlackSwan Partners in connection with its Series D round investment in Ali Wing Inc., operator of the Giggle chain of retail stores that sell newborn and infant products;
• Quad-C Management in connection with its acquisition of Royal Adhesives and Sealants and the subsequent acquisition by Royal Adhesives and Sealants of the Hardman adhesives and elastomers businesses of Elementis Plc;
• DB Capital Partners in connection with its $500 million acquisition of the Kinetics Group, Inc. from the United States Filter Corporation and DB Capital’s $35 million PIPE investment in Strayer Education;
• Quad-C Management in connection with its acquisition of investments in five private equity portfolio companies from BNP Paribas; and
• DB Capital Partners in connection with its $40 million private equity investment in a joint venture sponsored by Huntsman Corporation and ICI Chemicals.

Representative financial restructuring transactions include the representation of:

• Global Power Equipment Group in connection with its rights offering and backstop equity offering in conjunction with its Chapter 11 plan of reorganization pursuant to which its pre-petition equityholders retained a substantial equity investment in the company post-reorganization;
• Lund International in connection with its out-of-court settlement with its secured lenders and corresponding sale of substantially all of its assets to an affiliate of private equity sponsors Linsalata Capital Partners and Resilience Capital Partners;
• IRMC Holdings, Inc. in connection with four out-of-court debt and equity restructurings and the subsequent sale of IRMC to Guggenheim Partners;
• Communication Dynamics, Inc. in connection with the sale of substantially all of its assets pursuant to sale a order under section 363 of the US Bankruptcy Code; and
• Baring Private Equity in connection with its $55 million stalking horse bid to acquire substantially all of the assets of ACT Manufacturing pursuant to sale a order under section 363 of the US Bankruptcy Code.