Daniel Lewis

Associate, Dallas
214.953.6078
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Biography

Daniel Lewis is an attorney in the Corporate & Securities and Finance practices of Jackson Walker’s Dallas office. His transactional practice focuses on bank and credit finance, private equity finance, and mergers and acquisitions. Daniel has experience across a wide range of industries including energy, medical, tech, food services, manufacturing, insurance, and oil and gas (particularly upstream and midstream). Daniel represents banks, private lenders, borrowers, sponsors, and other institutional lenders in credit facilities typically ranging from $60 million to $600 million.

In the M&A space, Daniel has extensive experience representing both buyers and sellers across a broad range of industries. Daniel’s deals typically range in size from $5 million to $250 million and run the gamut between private, strategic, and joint venture transactions.

Daniel’s finance work includes bank finance for both lenders and borrowers, private credit for sponsors in LBOs and general refinancing transactions, and venture capital finance as investor counsel. Daniel has advised regional and national banks, private equity companies and oil and gas companies on oil and gas-secured credit facilities, telecommunications, media and technology (“TMT”) credit facilities, industrial facilities, and medical credit facilities. As part of this practice, Daniel has experience drafting and negotiating credit agreements, intercreditor agreements, subordination agreements, guaranties, mortgages, and other security documents, and in advising clients regarding perfection, hedging and usury matters. Daniel has also helped lenders navigate workouts, distressed loans and DIP financings.

Prior to Jackson Walker, Daniel practiced at a prominent international law firm. Before beginning private practice, he served as a judicial law clerk for Judge Don Willett of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Education

B.A., Baylor University

  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Studied abroad at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China

J.D., The University of Chicago Law School

  • Texas Law Society
  • Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Scholarship Recipient

Bar Admissions

Texas

Credit Facilities

  • Advises lenders and borrowers in establishing and refinancing bilateral and syndicated credit facilities across all industries in the middle market, small cap, and micro-cap spaces
  • Drafts primary and ancillary documents for acquisition financings, term loans, revolving loans, restructuring financings, debtor-in-possession (DIP) loans, revolving exit facilities, and amendments to credit agreements

Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Handles asset and stock purchases and sales for private institutions
  • Assists with managing virtual data rooms, conducting due diligence reports, and drafting purchase agreements and ancillary documents
  • Drafts non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements related to potential acquisitions

  • “Critical Distinctions Between Texas and Delaware LLC Law,” CSC CLE Webinar (July 2022)

Mergers and Acquisitions

  • Private-equity-backed trailer rentals, leases, and sales company in strategic acquisition
  • Sale of family-owned property tax and valuation services company
  • Acquisition by private-equity-backed durable medical equipment company of substantially all assets of competitor
  • Represented Auto Parts Plus in bankruptcy sale of substantially all assets to approximately one dozen different purchasers
  • Represented private-equity-backed wood manufacturing and processing company in strategic acquisition
  • Represented private-equity-backed healthcare company in merger with institutional purchaser
  • Represented private-equity-backed healthcare company in carve-out of Houston area hospitals to strategic purchaser
  • Represented real estate investment fund in acquisition of 100% equity interests in five multi-family properties across United States
  • Sale of family-owned insurance company to institutional purchaser
  • Represented family office in purchase of breast pump manufacturer
  • Represented institutional purchaser in acquisition of skilled nursing home and associated real estate
  • Represented prominent real estate brokerage company in formation of joint venture to acquire local brokerage
  • Represented family office in acquisition of distressed fast food chain

Energy and Infrastructure Transactions

  • Represented power generation company in acquisition of natural gas pipeline system serving power generation plant
  • Family office in connection with investment in joint ventures to acquire and convert portfolio of commercial passenger twin engine jet airliners
  • Represented large-cap energy company in acquisition of Central Texas pipeline and related easements and rights-of-way
  • Sale of family-owned heavy machinery company to institutional investor

Finance, Credit and Banking Transactions

  • Represented administrative agent in syndicated asset-based facility for $150 million
  • Represented bank, as administrative agent, sustainability agent, and lender, in connection with a $75 million syndicated credit facility for sponsor-backed fiber internet service providers
  • Represented administrative agent in syndicated reserve-based facility for $85 million
  • Represented administrative agent in syndicated credit facility to landscape and mulch company of approximately $40 million
  • Represented bank in workout of approximately $5 million promissory note
  • Represented private equity firm in the strategic refinancing of debt in connection with a portfolio to provide an extended maturity date with improved financial flexibility and reduced borrowing costs.

Venture Capital Financings

  • Represented investor in connection with Series A investment in healthcare software company
  • Represented investor in Series Seed investment in foreign healthcare technology company
  • Family office in early stage investment in healthcare technology and services company