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Daniel B. Levine is special counsel in the firm’s Shanghai office and a member of the Corporate practice group. Mr. Levine has extensive experience advising corporations and private equity funds in US and China-based mergers and acquisition, joint venture, foreign direct investment, and “going-private” transactions, as well as in debt and equity financings and restructurings. Mr. Levine was formerly a vice president at Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc., where he worked as collateralized debt obligations stucturer in the Financial Analytics and Structured Transactions Group, focusing on securitizations of bank loans, high-yield debt and consumer loans, and as an M&A banker.
Prior to joining Covington, Mr. Levine was resident in the New York, Beijing and Hong Kong offices of an international law firm. He is fluent in Mandarin.
Representative Matters
- Representation of a leading private equity fund in the formation of the largest veterinary products company in the United States and the subsequent sale of the fund’s interest therein.
- Representation of a leading middle-market private equity fund in the initial and add-on acquisitions forming the largest integrated retail property services firm in North America.
- Representation of a US-listed technology company in the partial spin-off of its Greater China operations.
- Representation of an insurance and administrative services company in the $1.25 billion sale of its Medicare Part D Business and the spin-off of its remaining businesses to its public shareholders.
- Representations of the special committees of a Hong Kong satellite company and a PRC mobile retailer in going-private transactions.
- Representation of other middle-market private equity funds in acquisitions, sales, debt restructurings, dividend-recapitalization and pre-IPO restructuring transactions.
Publications and Speeches
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