Daniel J. Belke

DANIEL BELKE focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, including domestic and cross-border public company transactions, private equity transactions, joint ventures, carve-out transactions, tender offers, and equity investments. Dan has represented clients across a range of industries, including consumer and retail, energy, healthcare, and technology. He has served a variety of public and private clients, ranging from family and individual-owned businesses to Fortune 10 and other multi-national corporations, as well as private equity funds. Dan also advises public company clients regarding corporate governance matters and compliance with the requirements of the federal securities laws, the New York Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ Stock Market and other exchange rules. During law school Dan was a James Kent Scholar and served on the board of the Columbia Law Review. He received a B.A. from Colgate University, where he was captain of the men’s soccer team.

Prior to joining Sidley, Dan was a member of an international law firm in both its New York City and Los Angeles offices.

• Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in its US$7.7 billion take-private acquisition of Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: DNB) and its US$4.4 billion take-private acquisition of Alteryx, Inc.
• Roche in its acquisition of 89bio, Inc. (NASDAQ: ETNB).
• Ridgeview Partners in its strategic growth investments in Radiant Logic and PayRange.
• PayRange in its acquisition of TurnsApp.
• DigiCert in its acquisition of Valimail.
• Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID) in its all-cash US$1.4 billion acquisition by an affiliate of STG.
• Houlihan Lokey, Inc. in its acquisition of Triago Management Development.
• Global consulting firm J.S. Held LLC in its acquisitions of Luttrell Wegis LLP and MorrisAnderson.
• Nektar Therapeutics in its sale of its manufacturing facility and reagent supply business to Ampersand Capital Partners.
• ContextLogic (NASDAQ: WISH) in its US$173 million sale of Wish Platform to Qoo10.
• Flex Ltd. (Nasdaq: FLEX) and its Fremont, California-based solar technology subsidiary, Nextracker Inc. (Nasdaq: NXT), in its upsized US$734.2 million initial public offering, making it the largest IPO of 2023.
• Flex Ltd. (Nasdaq: FLEX) in its spinoff of its remaining interests in Nextracker Inc. (Nasdaq: NXT) to Flex shareholders on a pro rata basis.
• UnitedHealth Group in the US$12.8 billion combination of subsidiary OptumRx and Catamaran Corporation, in connection with Optum’s US$4.3 billion acquisition of DaVita Medical Group (and related antitrust divestiture of certain DaVita assets to Intermountain Healthcare) and US$13 billion acquisition of Change Healthcare and related matters.
• ASGN Incorporated in its acquisition of GlideFast Consulting from BV Investment Partners.
• Oaktree Capital Management in its investments in Aspiration and TPI Composites.
• Sumitomo Metal Mining and Sumitomo Corporation in the US$2.2 billion sale of their collective 45% interest in Sierra Gorda Copper S.C.M. (Chile) to South32.
• Amazon.com in its acquisitions of Whole Foods Market and PillPack.
• AT&T in its agreement with TPG Capital that established new DIRECTV to operate AT&T’s former U.S. video business unit and related transactions.
• Concho Resources in its US$13.7 billion acquisition by ConocoPhillips and US$9.5 billion acquisition of RSP Permian.
• Stellantis (formerly Fiat Chrysler Automobiles) in its US$60 billion merger with Peugeot and its US$59.5 billion proposed combination with Groupe Renault (later withdrawn).
• Delta Air Lines in its strategic partnership with LATAM Airlines Group and related US$1.9 billion investment in LATAM.
• Merck KGaA in its US$6.4 billion acquisition of Versum Materials.
• Cheniere Energy in its acquisition of the publicly held shares of Cheniere Energy Partners LP Holdings, LLC not already owned by Cheniere.
• Enbridge in its US$43 billion acquisition of Spectra Energy.
• Gildan Activewear in its acquisitions of Alstyle Apparel and American Apparel.
• BBA Aviation in its US$2.1 billion acquisition of Landmark Aviation and related antitrust divestiture of certain Landmark assets to KSL Capital Partners.
• ZF Friedrichshafen in its US$12.4 billion acquisition of TRW Automotive Holdings.

Some of the above matters were handled prior to joining Sidley.

Dan has been involved in pro bono work in both New York and California. While in New York, Dan was also a teacher’s assistant for courses on M&A at Columbia Law School.