Daniel D. Lewis, P.C.
Overview
Dan Lewis is a partner in Kirkland’s Technology & IP Transactions Practice Group, focusing on acquisitions and sales of businesses for both private equity and public company clients where technology or intellectual property is a key value driver. In particular, Dan has extensive experience in structuring and negotiating carve-out and business separation transactions.
In addition, Dan’s practice includes negotiating other complex commercial transactions such as joint ventures and strategic alliances, outsourcing (BPO and ITO), pharmaceutical drug development and manufacturing, telecommunications, software development and implementation, and licensing (software, SaaS, technology, patent, and brand licenses). His practice also includes advising on intellectual property and technology issues in restructuring and debt finance transactions.
Dan has been recognized in Technology and Outsourcing in Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. He has also been recognized in The Legal 500 United States for Technology: Outsourcing and for Technology: Transactions.
Dan is also actively involved in pro bono matters and has represented a number of clients referred from Lawyers for the Creative Arts.
Experience
Representative Matters
Private Equity M&A
- Thomas H. Lee Partners in numerous transactions, including its:
- sale of HotDocs, its enterprise document automation and assembly business, to Mitratech
- acquisition alongside Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO) of Melax Technologies, a provider of generative AI and natural language processing technology used to extract key information from biomedical textual data
- carve-out acquisition of the semiconductor automation business of Brooks Automation Inc.
- acquisition of AutoStore and sale of minority stake to SoftBank
- acquisition of Auction.com and Ten-X, as well as subsequent separation of businesses and sale of Ten-X to CoStar
- acquisition of enterprise content management software provider, Alfresco Software
- acquisition of advanced parcel sortation system provider, Material Handling Systems
- acquisition of Fortna
- acquisition of House of Design
- acquisition of Carpe Data
- acquisition of bazaarvoice
- acquisition of inriver
- acquisition of Odessa
- acquisition of Adare Pharma Solutions
- acquisition of Nextech
- acquisition of AmeriLife Group
- acquisition of Hightower Advisors
- acquisition of AbacusNext
- acquisition of Insurance Technologies
- sale of Agencyport Software Corp.
- Bain Capital in numerous transactions, including its:
- capitalizing and launching Virgin Cruises, including the long-term license agreement with Virgin Group
- negotiation of brand license agreement with Virgin Enterprises in connection with Bain’s $3.5 billion acquisition of Virgin Australia
- Madison Dearborn Partners in numerous transactions, including its:
- acquisition of Linquest
- acquisition of Lightspeed Systems
- carve-out acquisition of Walgreens Infusion Services from Walgreens
- acquisition of Enterprise DNS solutions provider, BlueCat
- sale of over-the-top (OTT) video provider, QuickPlay Media, Inc. to AT&T
- Apax Partners in numerous transactions, including its:
- acquisition of a majority stake of Herjavec Group and subsequent add-on acquisition of Fishtech Group, LLC.
- acquisition of Align Networks and One Call Care Management
- acquisition of Coalfire, a provider of cybersecurity advisory services
- Transom Capital Group in its carve-out acquisition of the Bose Professional businesses from Bose Corporation
- Francisco Partners in its carve-out acquisition of Capsule Technologies, a provider of medical device connectivity technology, from Qualcomm Inc.
- Thoma Bravo in its $950 million carve-out acquisition of Symantec’s SSL business
- Motive Partners in various matters, including the following:
- carve-out acquisition of majority stake in Tegra118 (f/k/a Fiserv’s Investment Services Business)
- acquisition of InvestCloud, and combination of InvestCloud with Finantix and Tegra118 to create SaaS global wealth solutions platform
- Stone Point Capital in its $6 billion take-private acquisition of CoreLogic®
- TA formation of Advantive through its simultaneous carve-out acquisition of Kiwiplan and acquisitions of Advantzware, DDI Systems, Distribution One, Infinity QS, and VIA
- The Blackstone Group in its acquisition, along with Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division, of Ipreo Holdings LLC
- Reverence Capital Partners in its carve-out acquisition of Ministry Brands
- Water Street Healthcare Partners in its carve-out sale to Wipro of HealthPlan Services, a technology and business process as a service provider in the health insurance market
Public Company/Strategic M&A
- Honeywell (NASDAQ: HON) in its $1.81 billion acquisition of Air Products’ (NYSE: APD) liquefied natural gas (LNG) process technology and equipment business
- Verizon (NYSE: VZ) on the sale of Verizon Media to funds managed by Apollo Global Management, Inc. (NYSE: APO) for $5 billion. The carve-out allows Verizon Media to pursue growth areas of Internet and digital media while Verizon maintains a minority stake
- General Motors (NYSE: GM) in its $2.25 billion investment from the SoftBank Vision Fund in GM Cruise Holdings LLC, GM’s autonomous vehicle (AV) business, at an $11.5 billion valuation
- Accenture (NYSE: ACN) in its $830 million carve-out sale of the Navitaire travel systems business to, and long-term strategic alliance with, Amadeus SA
- Celanese Corporation (NYSE: CE) in its:
- $11 billion acquisition of a majority of DuPont’s Mobility & Materials Business
- $1.15 billion acquisition of ExxonMobil’s Santoprene TPV elastomers business
- Envista Holdings Corporation (NYSE: NVST) in its carve-out acquisition of Carestream Dental’s intra-oral scanners business for $600 million
- Northwestern Mutual in its acquisition of LearnVest, a web-based financial planning company
- Infosys Limited (NYSE: INFY) in its acquisition of Panaya, Inc., a leading provider of automation technology for large scale enterprise software management
Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances
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Joint venture to build fiber optic networks
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Strategic alliance between Japan Airlines and American Airlines
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Joint venture to establish offshore manufacturing facilities
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Strategic alliance to develop and commercialize cloud computing platform
Software and Technology
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$800 million Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) deal
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$100 million enterprise resource planning (ERP) license and implementation
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Proprietary software development and maintenance deals
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Exclusive and non-exclusive source code licenses
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Open source software counseling
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Numerous cloud computing, SaaS and other “as a Service” deals, software license agreements, hosting agreements, software and IT system implementations, and other technology license and services deals
Information Technology and Business Process Outsourcing
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$350 million IT Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) deal
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Multi-billion dollar IT outsourcing initiative involving deals with eight providers
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Multiple telecommunications network services outsourcing deals
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Multi-billion dollar asset management services outsourcing deal
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Numerous other IT and business process outsourcing deals
Pharma and Healthcare
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$350 million drug development collaboration
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Exclusive license and distribution deals
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Acquisition and sale of drug product lines
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Numerous supply and manufacturing agreements
Restructuring / Bankruptcy
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Avaya Inc.
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Caesars Entertainment Operating Co. Inc.
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Energy Future Holdings Corp.
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Cengage Learning, Inc.
Clerk & Government Experience
Judicial ExternHonorable Judge Amy J. St. EveUnited States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Prior Experience
MAHLE Powertrain, LLC, Novi, Michigan
- Project Manager, 2003–2005
- Project Engineer, 2002–2003
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Thought Leadership
Seminars
Moderator, “Negotiating Deals in an Evolving Data Rights Landscape,” Big Data and Its Impact on Outsourcing: Legal and Business Challenges, November 8, 2018
Recognition
Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business
- Recognized in Technology & Outsourcing
The Legal 500 United States
- Recognized in Technology: Outsourcing
- Recognized in Technology: Transactions
Memberships & Affiliations
Chicago Bar Association
Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- Illinois
Education
- University of Chicago Law SchoolJ.D.with Honors
Order of the Coif
- University of MichiganB.S.E., Mechanical Engineering
- University of MichiganB.S.E., Industrial & Operations Engineering