Danos Athanasi

Practice Areas

Banking, Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions

Career

Danos is a corporate finance lawyer specialising in mergers and acquisitions, MBOs (including VIMBOs and BIMBOs), disposals, corporate structuring, syndicated finance, bank and private funding (including venture capital and private equity) and security work, off-shore transactional work and joint ventures across a broad range of industries.

He has acted for clients in a variety of industries ranging in size from start-ups to £200m+ turnover businesses. As a result, he has developed particular specialisms and expertise in a number of sectors including: aviation, recruitment, logistics, market research and analysis, conferences and events, consultancy and procurement, manufacturing, travel, retail, energy, IT and insurance, off-shore unit trust and SPVs and residential and nursing care home.

Danos regularly advises his clients on finance and security arrangements (including relating to securing consideration structures in M&A work and day to day commercial operational requirements) as well as group refinancing packages. A recent example of his work includes acting for Network Aviation Group on its receivables finance, term loan and security arrangements across its multi-jurisdictional group structure.

Danos is increasingly involved in offering strategic advice and is regularly called on to project manage cross-border and international transactions across multiple jurisdictions.