Daniel Serota

Dan’s experience includes representing Fortune 500 companies, private equity funds and their portfolio companies, venture capital funds and other sponsors, financial institutions, insurance companies, and both public and private companies. In particular, he has worked extensively with Amazon for more than a decade providing counsel dozens of transactions across a multitude of their businesses.

Prior to joining Mayer Brown, Dan was a partner at another global law firm in the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity groups.

• Athene Holdings Ltd. in connection with its acquisition of Donlen Corporation from Hertz Global Holdings, Inc.
• Affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc. and affiliates of Athene Holding Ltd. in providing a $500 million of senior secured loan to, receipt of a warrant package to purchase shares of MFA's common stock at varying prices over a five-year period, and its commitment to buy, over the next 12 months, the lesser of 4.9% or $50 million in the common shares of, MFA Financial, Inc.
• Popular in its sale of a 51% interest in EVERTEC to Apollo Global Management.
• Barclays in its acquisition of Lehman Brothers' North American investment banking and capital markets operations.
• Lehman Brothers' pre-bankruptcy exploration of strategic alternatives.
• AIG in its restructuring of ALICO and AIA, the sale of preferred interests in ALICO and AIA to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
• AIG in the restructuring of its joint venture operations in Brazil with Unibanco-União de Bancos Brasileiros.
• UBS acquisition of ABN AMRO’s futures business.
• Reverence Capital in its investment in Sprout Holdings, LLC.
• Wafra in its joint venture with Trinity Industries for the investment and leasing of railcars.
• RBS in the sale of the business of its Argentinean Branch to Banco Comafi.
• Pireaus Bank in its sale of Marathon Banking Corporation to Investors Bancorp.
• Citibank Overseas Investment Corporation sale of A-Shares in Shanghai Pudong Development Bank.
• Matlin Patterson in its investment in Flagstar Bancorp.

Technology, Telecommunications and Media

• Amazon.com in dozens of acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic investments.
• Adelphia Communications in its $17.6 billion sale to Time Warner Cable and Comcast Corporation.
• Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe in its acquisition of Argos Health.
• Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe in its acquisition of EnableComp.
• Merrill Lynch in its sale of its 20% interest in Bloomberg.
• Velo3D in its restructuring and recapitalization.
• A private equity fund in connection with its investment in a cleanroom solutions company.
• SDC Capital Partners in its acquisition of Arcadia Towers.
• Evolution Media Capital in the sale of Matador Content, LLC to Boat Rocker Media Inc.
• An institutional investor in connection with the providing preferred equity financing for the $4.6 billion acquisition of Dun & Bradstreet Corporation.
• Danaher Corporation in its acquisition by tender offer of Sutron Corporation.
• Vista Equity Partners on the sale of one of its portfolio companies.
• EchoStar Corporation in its acquisition of Hughes Communications.
• A private investment firm that invests worldwide in public and private companies, real estate and sovereign debt in connection with its investment in a leading for-profit, post-secondary education and e-learning services provider in the People's Republic of China.
• IMS Health in its proposed merger with VNU (terminated after announcement).
• Microsoft it its sale of its interests in Telewest.

Fintech

• Fiserv in its investment in Pollinate Networks joint venture among Natwest, Fiserv, Mastercard, EFM Asset Management, National Australian Bank, Insight and CIBC.
  Motive Partners in its investment in Pollinate Networks joint venture among RBS, Mastercard, Motive Partners and EFM Asset Management.
  Vista Equity Partners, in its acquisition of a company providing governance, risk and compliance solutions from a leading multi-asset alternative investment firm.

Industrials and Energy

• Wafra in its investments in Global Container International.
• A global asset manager in its investment in Agrifund and AG Resources.
• Huntsman Family Investments in its acquisition of American Pacific Corporation Specialty Chemicals.
• Mitsui in in its acquisition of Steel Technologies.
• Total in its acquisition of Synenco Energy.
• Allegheny Energy in its sale of Mountaineer Gas and certain assets related to its West Virginia gas operations to Arclight Capital.
• Allegheny Energy in its sale of its interests in Conemaugh generation facility to UGI Corporation.

Healthcare, Pharmaceutical and Biogen

• Danaher in its acquisition of Dux Dental and Vettec.
• Medco Health Solutions acquisition of Polymedica.
• Amgen in its acquisition of Ilyspa.
• Amgen in its spin out of Relypsa.
• Amgen in its acquisition of Avidia.
• Amgen in its acquisition of Atlantos Pharmaceutical.
• Pharmacia in its acquisition by Pfizer.

Retail and Hospitality

• A private equity fund and a mattress company in the restructuring and recapitalization of the mattress company.
• Payless ShoeSource in its acquisition of Stride Rite.
• Payless ShoeSource in its acquisition of Collective Brands.
• A premium apparel designer and retailer in its acquisition by a leading investment management firm specializing in direct and fund-of-funds investments.
• Accor S.A. on its acquisition of Grupo Posadas' hotels in South America.
• Rhône in its investment in Coty.

Insurance

• Wellpoint in its acquisition of Wellpoint Health Networks.
• Folksamerica Holding in its acquisition of California Indemnity Insurance Company.
• Lightyear Capital in its sale of a NAU Group to QBE.
• Anthem in its acquisition of Trigon Healthcare.

Real Estate

• Chrysalis Capital and Lubert-Adler in their acquisition of Central Parking
• The St Joe Corporation in Fairholme Funds investment in The St. Joe Corporation
• Vornado Realty Trust in its purchase with Crescent Real Estate Equities of Americold Logistics from a joint venture owned by Vornado Operating Company and Crescent Operating, Inc.

Some of the above matters were handled by Dan prior to joining Mayer Brown.

Publications:

• “FinTech M&A Potential Pitfalls and Regulatory Aspects,” LexisNexis, November 5, 2024.
• “FinTech M&A Potential Pitfalls and Regulatory Aspects,” Lexis Practice Advisor, July 2023.
• “FinTech M&A Potential Pitfalls and Regulatory Aspects,” Lexis Practice Advisor, January 2022.
• “FinTech M&A Potential Pitfalls and Regulatory Aspects,” Lexis Practice Advisor, April 2020.
• “FinTech M&A Potential Pitfalls and Regulatory Aspects,” Lexis Practice Advisor, February 2018.
• “Potential Pitfalls and Regulatory Aspects of FinTech M&A,” Lexis Practice Advisor, December 2016.
• “Restocking The Buyer’s Private M&A Toolkit Post-Cigna,” Law360, October 6, 2015.
• “Standstills Still Needed: Confidentiality Agreements After Martin Marietta Materials,” The M&A Lawyer, September 2012.
• “Allocating Financing Control and Risk in Sponsored Joint Ventures,” The M&A Lawyer, December 8, 2011.
• “Reversing Chinese Reverse Mergers,” Law360, November 7, 2011.
• “Picking Your Poison,” The M&A Journal, Vol.10, No.8, July/August 2010.
• “To Thy Ownself Be True,” The M&A Journal, Vol.10, No.2, February 2010.
• “Determining Fair Value of Liabilities in Acquisitions,” Law360, December 2009.
• “Rethinking Purchase Price Adjustments in Light of Fair Value,” Bloomberg Law Reports: Mergers & Acquisitions, April 13, 2009.