Daniel S. Dokos

Daniel is consistently recognized as a leading lawyer for Banking & Finance by Chambers Global and Chambers USA, where clients note “he's one of the smartest lawyers in the industry” and “an exceptional adviser and invaluable partner in advising clients” who is “very commercial, very responsive and his work is spot-on.” He is recognized as a “Leading Lawyer” for Bank Lending by Legal 500 US, where clients note he is “excellent at working for banks and getting extremely difficult cross-border deals done.” Daniel is also recognized as a “Market Leader” for Banking in the U.S. by IFLR1000. He was named among the 2019 Top 30 “Best of the Best” Lawyers for Banking & Finance by Legal Media Group, recognized as a 2013 Banking “MVP” by Law360 and named a “Dealmaker of the Year” by The American Lawyer for his representation of the lead arrangers in Ford Motor Company’s $18.5 billion financing. Daniel has also been named a “Best Lawyer” for Banking & Finance Law in New York by Best Lawyers in America and recognized as an “expert” in Banking & Finance by Who’s Who Legal.

Experience

• Goldman Sachs, as lender, in connection with commitment papers for a $8.1 billion senior unsecured bridge facility to fund Emerson Electric Co.’s acquisition of National Instruments Corporation (d/b/a NI)
• the administrative agent in an amendment that incrementally adds to, and extends, approximately $6.5 billion in senior secured term facilities and a $567 million revolving credit facility for JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS International B.V. and Tea Forté Inc. (both subsidiaries of JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS Holdings B.V.)
• the administrative agent in a $1.55 billion amended and extended senior unsecured revolving facility for Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
• the administrative agent in a $1 billion amended and extended senior unsecured term facility for Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
• the administrative agent in $200 million senior secured revolving facilities for Etsy, Inc.
• the agent, lead arranger and sole bookrunner in a $300 million unsecured revolving facility for Align Technology, Inc.
• the administrative agent, joint lead arranger and joint bookrunner, in a $125 million senior secured revolving facility for Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. to refinance existing indebtedness
• the administrative agent, collateral agent, joint lead arranger and joint bookrunner, in senior secured facilities for Mavenir Systems Inc. (a portfolio company of Siris Capital Group) to refinance existing indebtedness
• Northeast Grocery, Inc., an entity resulting from the merger of Price Chopper Supermarkets and Tops Markets, LLC, in $873 million ABL revolving and first and second lien term post-merger financing facilities
• Johnson & Johnson in its $10 billion 364-day revolving facility to refinance and reprice existing indebtedness
• General Electric Company in an amended $10 billion senior unsecured revolving credit facility to refinance and extend existing commitments
• General Motors Company in amended and restated $4 billion three-year, and $10.5 billion five-year, senior multicurrency revolving facilities and in a new $2 billion 364-day commercial paper backstop facility
• The Kroger Company in a $2.75 billion amended and extended unsecured revolving facility
• The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. in a $2.5 billion senior unsecured multicurrency revolving credit facility to replace, and increase commitments under, its existing facility
• TE Connectivity Ltd. in an amendment and extension of a $1.5 billion senior unsecured multicurrency revolving credit facility for Tyco Electronics Group S.A.
• the administrative and non-U.S. collateral agent and joint arranger in $478 million term and $150 million multicurrency revolving senior secured credit facilities for Rain CII Carbon LLC and its Canadian, German and Belgian affiliates
• the administrative agent in $378 million first and second lien term and revolving facilities for Pathway Partners Vet Management (n/k/a Pathway Vet Alliance LLC)(a portfolio company of Morgan Stanley Private Equity to refinance existing indebtedness and finance Pathway Partners' purchase of a veterinary ophthalmology company and certain other acquisitions
• Signet Jewelers Limited in a $1.5 billion asset-based revolving credit facility and a $100 million FILO term loan to refinance existing indebtedness; a $1.5 billion extended asset-based revolving credit facility; and its $350 million senior unsecured bridge facility to finance its acquisitions of R2Net, Inc., the owner of JamesAllen.com, and Segoma Imaging Technologies
• White Oak Commercial Finance, LLC (WOCF) (an affiliate of White Oak Global Advisors, LLC) in an extended and upsized $700 million ABL revolving facility primarily to refinance existing indebtedness
• the lead arranger and administrative agent in a $650 million two-tranche senior secured term facility for Bumble Bee Holdings, Inc. and Connors Bros Clover Leaf Seafoods Company (subsidiaries of Bumble Bee Holdco, S.C.A.) to refinance existing senior secured notes and PIK toggle notes
• the administrative and collateral agent in $630 million multicurrency unsecured, senior secured and asset-based facilities to finance Triton's acquisition of acquisition of Werner Co., Inc.
• the administrative and collateral agent in $3 billion senior secured facilities to finance in part JAB's approximately $7.5 billion take-private of Panera Bread Company
• the administrative agent, joint lead arranger and joint bookrunner in $1.3 billion first and second lien term facilities and a $135 million multicurrency revolving facility for Sequa Corporation (a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group), to refinance existing indebtedness and for working capital
• the administrative and collateral agent in $203 million senior secured facilities to finance GTCR's acquisition of Sage Payment Solutions
• the administrative agent in $192 million senior secured facilities for Highgate Hotels, L.P. (a portfolio company of Trilantic Capital Partners) to refinance existing indebtedness
• Speedcast International Limited in senior secured DIP facilities to finance business operations during its chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings
• Softbank Investment Advisors, as lender, in a $35 million senior secured debtor-in-possession facility for Katerra, Inc. to finance business operations during its chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings
• the administrative agent in €670 million term and $100 million revolving senior secured facilities for Coherent, Inc., to finance its $942 million acquisition of ROFIN-SINAR Technologies, Inc.
• the lead arrangers and joint bookrunners in $500 million senior secured facilities to finance JAB Beech's acquisition of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc.
• JAB Holding Company, as leader of an investment group, and Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. in $6.4 billion multicurrency senior secured facilities to finance the investment group's $13.9 billion take-private of Keurig Green Mountain
• the lead arranger and administrative agent in $155 million senior secured credit facilities to finance The Carlyle Group’s acquisition of LDiscovery, LLC
• EMI Music Publishing (at the time a portfolio company jointly owned by, among others, Mubadala Development Company PJSC and Sony Corporation of America) in a $1.2 billion refinancing of its existing senior secured indebtedness
• the lead arranger and administrative agent in $440 million first and second lien credit facilities to finance the acquisition of Research Now Group, Inc. by Court Square Capital Partners
• the lead arrangers in approximately $1.96 billion credit facilities used to refinance the existing debt of RAC Limited and to finance the acquisition by the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) of a stake in RAC Limited from The Carlyle Group and certain members of management
• the lead arrangers in up to €7.6 billion secured multicurrency credit facilities to finance the contribution of the coffee business of D.E Master Blender 1753 N.V. and that of Mondelez International, Inc. into a joint venture
• Signet Jewelers in its $400 million investment grade revolving credit facility and $800 million credit facilities to finance its acquisition of Zale Corporation
• the lead arrangers in $1.3 billion credit facilities for Goldman Sachs and Koch Industries to finance the acquisition of Flint Group
• the lead arrangers in $1 billion multicurrency, senior secured credit facilities to finance the merger of equals of Chesapeake Services Limited (a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group) and Multi Packaging Solutions, Inc. (a portfolio company of Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC)
• the lead arrangers in $1.2 billion senior secured credit facilities for CBS Outdoor Americas (now known as OUTFRONT Media) and $715 million bridge commitments to finance the acquisition by OUTFRONT Media of certain outdoor advertising businesses from Van Wagner Communications, LLC
• the lead arrangers in $405 million term and $33 million revolving credit facilities for Capvis Equity Partners and Partners Group to finance the acquisition of a majority stake in VAT Holding AG
• Doncasters Group Limited in its $1.3 billion credit facilities
• Mubadala Development Company, as a member of the consortium including Sony Corporation, in connection with the $1.25 billion senior secured financing for the consortium’s $2.2 billion acquisition of EMI Music Publishing
• the lead arrangers in the $22.5 billion bridge loan financing for Pfizer's acquisition of Wyeth
• the lead arrangers in Ford Motor Company's historic $18.5 billion secured financing transaction
• the lead arrangers in the $4.4 billion financing for the spin-off of Dr Pepper Snapple Group from Cadbury Schweppes 

Daniel joined Weil in 1998 as a partner and was a member of the Firm’s Management Committee from 2008 through 2016. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1982, where he graduated Order of the Coif and served as notes editor on the Virginia Law Review. He received his undergraduate degree in History from Dartmouth College in 1979.