Dan Li

Associate Mergers & Acquisitions Private Equity

New York +1 212 390 6933

Overview

Dan Li is a corporate associate in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Her practice primarily focuses on public and private company merger and acquisition transactions, corporate governance matters and activism defense. Dan has significant experience advising public companies and private equity firms on domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, spin-offs and carve-outs, minority investments and securities offerings.

Prior to joining Kirkland, Dan was involved in the following matters:

  • Charlesbank in its $430 million acquisition of Quotient Technology Inc. the Jacobson and Gershwind Family in the reclassification of MSC Industrial Direct Co.
  • Exelixis in its proxy contest against Farallon Capital Partners.
  • McDonald’s in its proxy contest against Carl Icahn.
  • Resolute Forest Products Inc. in its $2.7 billion sale to Paper Excellence.
  • Aptiv in its $3.5 billion acquisition of Wind River from TPG Capital.
  • The Getty Family in the $4.8 billion business combination of Getty Images.
  • Continental Grain Company in its $4.53 billion acquisition of Sanderson Farms, Inc.
  • Carrier Global Corp. in its $3.1 billion sale of the Chubb business to APi Group Corporation.
  • Kraft Heinz in its $3.2 billion sale of natural cheese business to Lactalis Group.
  • Relatient, Inc. in its acquisition of Radix Health, Inc.
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

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Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2019New York

Languages

  • English
  • Chinese

Education

  • Columbia Law SchoolJ.D.2018

    Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar

    Editor-in-Chief, Columbia Journal of European Law

  • Colgate UniversityB.A., Philosophy & Political Sciencemagna cum laude2015