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Daniel S. Dokos is the chairman of the firm's Banking & Finance practice and a member of the firm's 17-member Management Committee. 

Mr. Dokos has extensive experience in all areas of bank financing with particular focus on acquisition finance and cross-border lending.  He has experience representing both financial institutions and corporate borrowers in connection with leveraged acquisition and recapitalization transactions, syndicated lending, investment grade lending, cash flow lending and asset-based lending, as well as loan restructurings, debtor-in-possession financings and exit financings.

Recent Experience

• Representation of lead arrangers in $155 million and €87 million cross-border refinancing credit facilities for Xerium Technologies
• Representation of lead arrangers in $1.25 billion cross-border refinancing credit facilities for Diversey, Inc.
• Representation of lead arrangers in the $22.5 billion bridge loan financing for Pfizer's acquisition of Wyeth
• Representation of lead arrangers in the financing for the spin-off of Dr Pepper Snapple
• Representation of lead agent and lender in connection with a leveraged term loan financing to media company Nielsen Finance LLC
• Representation of lead arrangers in Ford Motor Company's historic $18 billion secured financing transaction
• Representation of lead arrangers in leveraged financings for Allison Transmission, Jarden Corporation and Payless Shoesource (in connection with its acquisition of Striderite)
• Representation of lead arranger in the leveraged financing for Georgia-Pacific (in connection with its merger into a subsidiary of Koch Industries), Affiliated Computer Services, and Novelis (in connection with its spin-off from Alcan)
• Representation of lead agents in restructurings for Healthsouth, Oxford Automotive, Paragon Trade Brands, Safelite AutoGlass and Key Plastics
• Representation of lead agent in high grade financings for Alcoa, Phelps Dodge, Hydro Quebec and FMC Corporation
• Representation of lead agent in debtor-in-possession financings for Warnaco Group, Service Merchandise and Babcock & Wilcox

Mr. Dokos joined the firm in 1998 as a partner. Mr. Dokos graduated 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.

• Bar Admissions
  California State; New York State

• Education
  Dartmouth College (B.A., 1979); University of Virginia (J.D., 1982)