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Dan Webb is a Partner in the Corporate Department at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. Mr. Webb’s practice focuses on capital markets transactions and mergers and acquisitions, as well as advising public companies on corporate law, governance and securities law matters. He regularly works with participants in the technology industry. Mr. Webb also works on mezzanine financings.
Mr. Webb’s capital markets practice includes advising issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings and other offerings of common stock, and offerings of high yield debt and convertible debt. His high yield experience includes secured notes offerings—covering first-lien, second-lien and crossing-lien structures—as well as unsecured discount notes and toggle PIK notes. He has also advised on auction-based offerings, including representing the underwriters in the U.S. Treasury’s modified Dutch auction offering of its TARP-related preferred stock investment in Wilshire Bancorp.
Recent capital markets engagements include representation of the underwriters in Apple’s $17 billion bond offering, the largest corporate debt offering in history, representation of the underwriters in the $16 billion IPO of Facebook, the largest technology offering ever and the third largest IPO in U.S. history, representation of the underwriters in the U.S. Treasury’s modified Dutch auction offering of its TARP-related preferred stock investment in Wilshire Bancorp, an offering of senior notes by Ellucian (formerly Datatel), and convertible notes offerings by Micron Technology. Other capital markets transactions include offerings by Associated Materials, Avago Technologies, Bioform Medical, Brocade Communications Systems, CoreLogic, Genomic Health, GLG Partners, Goodman Global Group, Ikanos Communications, Lions Gate Entertainment, lululemon athletica, NetSuite, Rackspace Hosting, RealPage, Seagate Technology, Serena Software, Shutterfly, Tesla Motors and VeriFone Holdings.
His recent M&A experience includes the representation of Silver Lake in connection with its investments in William Morris Endeavor Entertainment and Virtu Financial and the representation of Intergraph Corporation in connection with its $2.125 billion sale to Hexagon AB.
Mr. Webb was recently named by the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journal as one of the Top 20 Lawyers Under 40 for 2013, in recognition of his extensive capital markets and M&A work.
Mr. Webb received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, cum laude, in 2001, his M.A. from U.C.L.A. in 1998 and his A.B. from Harvard University, magna cum laude, in 1996. Mr. Webb is admitted to practice in California and New York.
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California 2005 |
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New York 2002 |
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Harvard Law School, 2001 J.D.
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UCLA, 1998 M.A. |
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Harvard University, 1996 A.B.
magna cum laude |
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