Daniel Cousens

Dan is an English law qualified M&A partner based in the Warsaw office since 2006. Advises international corporates, financial sponsors, and sovereign wealth funds on M&A in Türkiye, Ukraine, the CEE, and Poland. Co-heads the firm’s Warsaw Corporate/M&A practice, Türkiye Group, Ukraine Group, and CEE Group. Previously spent five years in the Moscow office advising on cross-border corporate transactions. Early career included work for the European Commission and a UK NGO on conflict resolution projects in Georgia. Led on many major transactions in the region and worked with the disputes team on arbitrations.

Transaction experience includes advising:

• Pegasus Airlines on the €154m acquisition of Czech Airlines and its subsidiary Smartwings.

• Qatar Investment Authority on the acquisition of a 30% interest in Istinye Park luxury shopping mall in Istanbul from Doğuş Group, joint venture arrangements with Doğuş Group, and subsequent sale of their interest.

• Metair Investments Limited on the disposal of its Turkish business, the Mutlu Group, to Quexco Inc.

• Qatar Investment Authority on the acquisition of an indirect interest in a concession holder of the Eurasia Tunnel in Istanbul from a South Korean Construction and Gas company, and the resulting joint venture with a Turkish group.

• Getir (ultra-fast delivery group) on various M&A, financing, and corporate matters.

• Interxion (a Digital Realty company) on its acquisition of Greece's largest data centre company, Lamda Hellix.

• Raiffeisenbank A.S. (Czech subsidiary of Raiffeisen Bank International) on its acquisition of a 100% stake in Equa Bank from AnaCap Financial Partners.

• Exim Bank of Romania on its purchase of National Bank of Greece’s 99.28% equity holding in Banca Romaneasca.

• Ukrainian group DCH on the acquisition of the DMZ steel mill from Evraz plc.

• Qatari-based beIN Media Group on the acquisition of Turkish pay-TV provider Digitürk.