Daniel D. Lewis

Practice Areas

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. Dan has substantial experience in structuring and negotiating carve-out transactions involving complex business separations and has led the business separation and technology aspects of numerous high-profile carve-out transactions.

His broader practice also includes joint development and collaboration agreements, pharmaceutical drug development, supply and manufacturing, telecommunications, software licensing and system implementations, outsourcing (BPO and ITO), other forms of IP licensing (know-how, technology, patent, and brand licenses), and IP and technology issues in restructuring and bankruptcy matters. His clients include Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Honeywell, THL Partners and the Celanese Corporation, among others. Dan’s work has been recognized by Chambers, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and Legal 500.

Personal

University of Michigan (B.S.E.), University of Chicago Law School (J.D.).