Partner, Global Capital Markets, Reed Smith; Founder & Chair | InterLaw Diversity Forum
Daniel is a partner in Reed Smith’s Global Capital Markets practice in their London office, and is a Senior Diversity Consultant to the firm. Daniel’s practice focuses on representing US, UK, European and Asian investment banks and corporate issuers in a wide range of securities transactions, including Rule 144A and Regulation S equity and debt offerings; Category 3, Regulation S transactions for US companies listing in the United Kingdom; rights offerings; exchange offers; equity-linked securities offerings; initial public offerings and secondary and follow-on offerings of equity securities, including SEC-registered transactions.
Daniel is the founder and co-chair of the Forum for US Securities Lawyers in London, a trade association which address US securities issues in the London market across law firms, banks and intermediaries.
Daniel is also the founder and chair of the InterLaw Diversity Forum (now in its 10th year), which seeks to promote inclusion and meritocracy in the legal sector. The InterLaw Diversity Forum currently has more than 4,000 members and supporters from over 215 law firms and chambers, and 285 corporates and financial institutions. Since its founding the InterLaw Diversity Forum has expanded its scope beyond LGBT+ to encompass all strands of diversity and inclusion (including social mobility), with a particular focus on cultural change in the workplace and ‘multiple identities’/intersectionality.
Daniel was a member of the Equality & Diversity Committee at the Law Society of England & Wales for six years and served for six years as a member of the Judicial Diversity Forum organised by the Judicial Appointments Commission. Daniel was admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States in 2013.