Dan Peach

Dan advises private equity funds, borrowers and portfolio companies on their domestic and cross-border acquisition financing and other leveraged finance transactions, including leveraged buyouts, acquisitions, infrastructure assets (including digital infrastructure), payment-in-kind/holdco instruments, public-to-privates, preferred equity transactions, fund-level financing, recapitalisations and restructurings, among others.

Dan has acted on deals involving leading private equity funds, including Ardian, BlackRock, Carlyle, DigitalBridge, Global Infrastructure Partners, Hg, H.I.G. Capital, Macquarie, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Warburg Pincus, Telemos Capital and TowerBrook, among others. 

Work highlights

Dan has advised on many market-leading transactions, including:

• Carlyle on multiple transactions, including on the financing for its acquisitions of Groupe Acrotec, Autoform Engineering, Anthesis Consulting and its public-to-private offer for Vectura, as well as its restructuring of Praesidiad and Accolade Wines
• DigitalBridge on multiple transactions, including on the financing for its acquisition of Vantage Data Centers and IslandsTurnar
• Hg on multiple transactions, including on the financing for its take-private of Ideagen, its acquisitions in respect of Auvesy-MDT, Bright, FEFundinfo, JTL-Software GmbH, Geomatikk, Gen II, Pirum, Septeo, Silverfin, SmartTrade and TrackUnit, and its refinancing of Azets and Team.blue, among others
• Warburg Pincus and TowerBrook on the financing for the take-private of The AA Group
• Globalvia and Kinetic on the consortium’s financing for their recommended offer for the take-private of The Go-Ahead Group
• Ardian on its acquisition of Mila, Iceland’s largest telecommunications provider
• Macquarie on its financing in connection with a recommended public takeover of Byggfakta

Dan regularly speaks at Loan Markets Association conferences in London, often on the subject of cash controls in leveraged finance.

Dan holds a Bachelor of Business and a Bachelor of Law from the Queensland University of Technology.