Dan Schuster-Woldan > Linklaters LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
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Dan Schuster-Woldan
Work Department
Corporate, insurance, restructuring and insolvency.
Position
Dan is a corporate partner based in London, who focuses on the financial services sector, with a particular emphasis on insurance. He has wide-ranging experience in public and private M&A, joint ventures, equity capital markets transactions (including many of the market’s most significant IPOs) and corporate restructuring work. Clients have turned to Dan for M&A advice on projects across Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa, giving him extensive cross-border expertise. He has experience of working on deals that have high levels of public, political and market scrutiny.
Dan’s experience includes advising: Old Mutual on its proposed managed separation (ongoing); Athene Holding on its proposed acquisition of Aegon Ireland (ongoing); AXA on disposals of its UK life insurance and savings businesses and its Portuguese business, and its acquisitions of Mansard Insurance (Nigeria) and of HSBC’s general insurance business in Asia and Mexico (with related long-term bancassurance distribution arrangements); RSA on the sale of its Latin American business to Suramericana and its Italian branches to ITAS Mutua; Julius Baer on the acquisition of Merrill Lynch’s international wealth management business; on the IPOs of Brit Insurance, Royal Mail and Direct Line Group and the HSBC rights issue; RTL Group on its IPO in Frankfurt and its investments in and disposals of Channel 5 (UK) and Alpha Media Group (Greece); RBS on the consortium bid for ABN AMRO and its recapitalisations by HM Treasury; Lloyds Banking Group on the sale of Abbey Life to Deutsche Bank; Hershey and Costain on their respective possible bids for Cadbury and Mouchel; on the financial restructurings / sales of HMV, GAME Group and DYWIDAG-Systems International.
Career
Trained Linklaters; qualified 2002; associate Linklaters 2002-06; secondment to RBS, Group Transactions & Projects 2006; managing associate Linklaters 2006-10; secondment to Goldman Sachs, Investment Banking Division 2010; partner 2010 to date.
Languages
English, German, Spanish.
Education
London School of Economics (1998 LLB).
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
(Leading individuals)Dan Schuster-Woldan – Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
London > Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
(Leading individuals)Dan Schuster-Woldan – Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Risk advisory > Corporate governance
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Employment > Employers
- Real estate > Environment
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Transport > Rail
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Finance > Securitisation
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Water
Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Finance > High yield
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£250m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Real estate > Property finance
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Finance > Trade finance
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers