Daniel Belzer

Daniel Belzer is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in the firm’s Century City office. He is a member of the Private Equity Team and the Emerging Growth/Venture Capital Team.

Areas of Practice

Daniel’s practice focuses mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, investments, joint ventures, equity financings, and other capital raising transactions. In addition, Daniel has a passion for early stage company counseling, often serving as outside general counsel for his start-up clients and advising on business formation and structuring, capital raising transactions, and commercial issues.

Daniel represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, family offices, public and privately held companies, as well as entrepreneurs and start-ups. Daniel is industry agnostic, but has significant experience representing companies in sectors that include industrials, social media, software, private security, communications, lab testing, aviation, manufacturing, healthcare, food and beverage, real estate, hospitality, technology and entertainment.

Daniel is a deal-maker at heart. He brings a hands-on, commercial and solutions-oriented approach to navigating transactions and his clients’ complex issues. Having experience across such a broad cross section of industries and transaction sizes, Daniel takes a tailored approach to each matter, focusing on the client’s business priorities and objectives.

Experience

Representative Transactions

Private Equity/M&A:

• Represented AMN Healthcare (NYSE: AMN) in its acquisition of Stratus Video from Kinderhook Industries for $475 million.
• Represented AMN Healthcare (NYSE: AMN) in its acquisition of MedPartners for $195 million.
• Represented AMN Healthcare (NYSE: AMN) in its acquisition of MSDR for $300 million.
• Represented Aretex Capital Management, LP in the spin-off from existing platform and creation of a new private equity platform and the acquisition of 3 portfolio company investments with a combined value of over $600 million, including $325 million of equity provided by Goldman Sachs and ICG Capital.
• Represented Aretex Capital Management, LP in the acquisition of senior securities of Building Energy 1 Holdings plc, a European-based global alternative energy company.
• Represented Aretex Capital Partners in its acquisition of Alerian, the developer of the energy benchmark Alerian MLP Index.
• Represented Ardian Capital North America in its take private acquisition of PRGX, Inc.
• Represented Ardian Capital North America in its acquisition of Tom Barrow Company.
• Represented Wencor, a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus, in numerous acquisitions including Silver Wings Aerospace, Aviatron, and ASC Industries
• Represented Hygiena, a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus, in numerous acquisitions including Helica Biosystems and Celsis Dairy
• Represented Certified Labs, a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus, in numerous acquisitions including ABC Testing, Kaycha Labs, and Microconsult.
• Represented Service Champions, a portfolio company of Odyssey Investment Partners, in numerous acquisitions including Sierra Air and Swan Heating and Air
• Represented Solis Capital Partners in its investment in ICOM North America.
• Represented StudyKIK in its sale of equity to Kinderhook Industries.
• Represented Vortex Industries in its sale to Warren Equity Partners
• Represented Universal Services of America in its sale of an equity interest to Warburg Pincus.
• Represented Universal Services of America in its sale of an equity interest to Partners Group.

Venture Capital/Emerging Company/Growth:

• Represented Cameo in its Series A financing round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.
• Represented Cameo in its $50 million Series B financing round, led by Kleiner Perkins.
• Represented Cameo in its $100 million Series C financing round, led by Headline Ventures.
• Represented Carenostics in its Series Seed financing round, led by M13 Ventures.
• Represented Visible Ideas in its Series Seed financing, led by Thrive Ventures.
• Represented Agentio in a $4.5 million convertible instrument financing, led by Craft Ventures and Alleycorp.
• Represented Notice Ninja in its Series Seed financing round.
• Represented Home Town Ticketing in a $75 million Series A financing round, led by Nexa Equity.
• Represented Fortistar in a Series A financing for Braven Environmental.
• Represented Carbonfree Chemicals in a convertible debt financing.

Honors

Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch, Best Lawyers, 2023-2024

Rising Star, The Deal, 2021

Articles

• Sheppard Mullin Represents Sony Interactive Entertainment in Agreement to Acquire Insomniac Games, August 19, 2019
• Sheppard Mullin Represents Cameo In $50 Million Financing, June 24, 2019

Corporate & Securities Law Blog Posts

• "Summary of Actions Taken by US Government on Sunday, March 12 in Response to SVB Failure and Related Fallout," March 12, 2023

Media Mentions