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Daniel Cousens

Corporate Partner, Warsaw

“I have enjoyed working with the leading regional corporate groups and international investors on their acquisitions and joint ventures across Turkey, Ukraine, CEE and Russia over the last 15 years and am fortunate to have advised clients through to positive outcomes on some of the most significant and challenging transactions in diverse and sometimes difficult jurisdictions.”

Overview

Professional experience

Education and qualifications

Overview

Dan is an English law qualified lawyer who has been based in the firm’s Warsaw office since 2006. He advises international corporates, private equity sponsors and strategic investors on M&A (private and public) deals, inbound and outbound investments in emerging Europe, particularly in Turkey, Ukraine, the CEE and Poland.

Dan leads the firm’s Warsaw Corporate/M&A practice and co-heads the firm's Turkey desk and is a member of the firm’s CEE and CIS teams.

Before moving to Warsaw, Dan spent five years in the firm’s Moscow office advising on a wide range of cross-border corporate transactions. Early on in his career, Dan worked for the European Commission and for a UK non-governmental organisation on conflict resolution projects in Georgia.

Work highlights

Dan has led on many of the CEE region’s major transactions and has also worked with our disputes team on a number of arbitrations in the region. His transaction experience includes advising:

  • Qatar Investment Authority QIA on their acquisition of a 30% interest in the Istinye Park luxury shopping mall in Istanbul from the Doğuş Group and the resulting joint venture arrangements with co-owners Doğuş Group
  • Interxion, a Digital Realty company, on its acquisition of Greece's largest data center company, Lamda Hellix
  • Raiffeisenbank A.S., a Czech subsidiary of Raiffeisen Bank International on its acquisition of a 100% stake in the Czech retail bank, Equa Bank, from AnaCap Financial Partners
  • Exim Bank of Romania on its purchase of the National Bank of Greece’s 99.28% equity holding in Banca Romaneasca
  • DCH on the acquisition of the DMZ steel mill from Evraz plc
  • Qatari-based beIN Media Group on the acquisition of Turkish pay-TV provider Digitürk

Professional experience

Founder member of TWDW – Warsaw’s largest amateur rowing club.

Education and qualifications

Dan studied English and French law at University College, London and Université Aix-Marseille

He speaks English, French, Russian and Polish.