Dan Dufner Bio

Dan Dufner is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group, and resident in the New York office. His practice focuses on representing US public companies and their boards of directors, on high-profile matters that include domestic and cross-border transactions, spin-off and other reorganization transactions (both friendly and contested), joint ventures, proxy fights and takeovers as well as corporate governance and securities matters. He has worked extensively on a variety of cross-border transactions involving assets throughout the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Dan has extensive experience advising clients in the healthcare, telecommunications and satellite communication services sectors. He regularly advises Elevance Health, Inc. (f/k/a Anthem, Inc.), EchoStar Corporation, DISH Network Corporation, and various SPACs and SPAC Sponsors in the healthcare sector. Dan has been the exclusive winner of Lexology's 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2018 Client Choice Award for New York M&A. He is ranked as a "Leading Individual" for M&A in Chambers USA, Euromoney and Who's Who Legal and has been recognized by The American Lawyer as "Dealmaker of the Week" and "Dealmaker in the Spotlight." Recently, Dan has advised on several industry leading transactions including advising EchoStar Corporation in its terminated definitive agreement under which DIRECTV would have acquired EchoStar's video distribution business DISH DBS, including DISH TV and Sling TV, through a series of innovative debt exchange and financing transactions designed to deliver its balance sheet and improve the company's debt maturity profile.