Danos Athanasi
Partner
Corporate
Danos is a Corporate Finance Lawyer with a career spanning over 20 years specialising in mergers and acquisitions, MBOs, disposals, Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs), corporate structuring, bank and private funding (including venture capital and private equity) and security work, off-shore and international transactional work and joint ventures across a broad range of industries.
Danos prides himself on developing strong personal relationships and working closely with entrepreneurs and owner managers with the aim of understanding their specific motivations and needs. This allows him to become their trusted advisor and, in doing so, provide bespoke legal advice, project manage transactions and negotiate accordingly.
During his career, he has acted for clients in a variety of industries ranging in size from start-ups to £300m+ turnover businesses. As a result, he has developed particular expertise in a number of sectors including: aviation logistics, builders’ merchants and suppliers, food, recruitment, market research and analysis, conferences and events, consultancy and procurement, facilities management, manufacturing, travel, retail, energy, IT and insurance, off-shore unit trust and SPVs.
Danos is involved in offering strategic advice and is regularly called on to project manage cross-border and international transactions across multiple jurisdictions.
Work highlights
GENERAL COUNSEL
Acting as Group General Counsel for Network Aviation Group, an aviation cargo logistics and management specialist, advising on various corporate matters, corporate structuring and national/international transactional work.
ACQUISITION
Advising the selling shareholders of MS Roofing Supplies on its acquisition by Independent Builders Merchant Group.
COMPANY SALE
Advising the selling shareholders of the AVS Group Holdings Limited on the sale of the company to Lawsons Holdings Limited.
Services
Recent articles
Insights
DMH Stallard and Kreston Reeves have advised the shareholders of Naked Foods on its acquisition by Meadow Foods
19/10/2023
Insights
DMH Stallard project managed both the corporate restructure and banking aspects of the transactions from a legal perspective
17/10/2023
Insights
DMH Stallard and Kreston Reeves have advised the shareholders of MS Roofing Supplies (MSR) on its acquisition by Independent Builders Merchant Group (IBMG)
18/07/2023