Bio

Daniel Desmond is a business, finance and municipal attorney experienced in mergers and acquisitions (M&A), general business law, corporate governance and other types of business and finance transactions. His transaction experience ranges from entity selection and formation to general contract review and drafting, as well as conventional, tax-exempt, venture capital and private equity lending transactions, as well as regulatory compliance matters. His experience across those varied fields allow clients to deal directly with him on nearly every aspect of a deal. Dan’s clients range from small and family-owned businesses and start-ups and entrepreneurs to public companies, financial institutions, nonprofits and government clients. Dan also serves as the solicitor to municipal authorities, acting as their general counsel and handling a wide array of legal issues. As part of his finance practice, he also structures tax-exempt bonds and notes for public sector and nonprofit clients. Dan helps to lead the firm’s Practice Excellence initiative, working collaboratively with other attorneys to come up with creative, effective and cost-efficient solutions to our clients’ ever-evolving challenges and needs. A Lancaster native, Dan understands the needs of the community, and he’s put that knowledge to work, both in representing local institutions and serving on the boards of nonprofit and community organizations. Dan’s commitment to client service has led to a wide array of recent transactional work in the fields of M&A, finance, municipal, regulatory and general business: