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Steven Daniels has a broad-ranging corporate practice focused primarily on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, distressed transactions, securities law matters and corporate governance. Mr. Daniels has deep experience representing publicly traded acquirors and target companies, and also has extensive experience representing private company buyers and sellers — including private equity funds and their portfolio companies — in a variety of transactional situations. He frequently represents acquirors and sellers in distressed situations, and has extensive experience advising clients on the corporate aspects of bankruptcy proceedings and workouts, recapitalization transactions and “rescue” financings. Mr. Daniels also advises on issues of Delaware law, including fiduciary duty and corporate governance matters. Mr. Daniels has represented numerous public and private companies as well as investment funds in connection with a variety of negotiated and hostile transactions, including mergers, purchases and sales of securities, assets and business units, tender offers, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, going-private transactions, special committee representations, and activist defense and preparedness engagements.