Daniel Nussen

Partner, Los Angeles

Biography

Overview

Daniel Nussen is a partner in White & Case's Capital Markets practice in Los Angeles. Daniel focuses his practice on securities and corporate law, representing clients on matters involving public and private offerings of securities, '34 Act reporting, corporate governance, and initial public offerings, public mergers, acquisitions and business combinations. Daniel has extensive experience drafting registration statements, public reporting company disclosure documents, proxy statements, securities beneficial ownership filings, and a wide variety of agreements and other transactional documents including operating agreements and joint ventures. Daniel regularly advises companies on general corporate matters, and corporate governance and securities law, including with respect to stock exchange listing requirements for Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange. Daniel has taken numerous companies public through deSPAC transactions across the globe and across a wide variety of industries.

Daniel previously spent three years in the in-house legal department of a major financial institution.

Bars and Courts
California State Bar
New York State Bar
Education
JD
New York University School of Law
BA
Northwestern University
Languages
English

Experience

SPAC Initial Public Offerings

  • Represented Screaming Eagle Acquisition Corp. in its $750 million initial public offering.
  • Represented LAMF Global Ventures Corp. I in its $253 million initial public offering.
  • Represented Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp. in its $1.725 billion initial public offering.
  • Represented Citigroup, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs and BofA Securities and in the $1.38 billion initial public offering of Churchill Capital Corp VII.
  • Represented Deutsche Bank, Barclays and Credit Suisse in the $690 million initial public offering of Apollo Strategic Growth Capital II.

SPAC Business Combinations

  • Represented Flexjet in its US$3 billion business combination with Horizon Acquisition Corporation II.
  • Represented Athena Consumer Acquisition Corp. in its $913 million business combination with Next.e.GO Mobile SE.
  • Represented Zanite Acquisition Corp. in its $2.4 billion business combination with Eve.
  • Represented Colonnade Acquisition Corp. in its $1.57 billion business combination with Ouster, Inc.
  • Represented Apollomics Inc. in its $899 million business combination with Maxpro Capital Acquisition Corp.
Publications

"Private Equity Funds Drive Transformation of SPACs," Bloomberg Law, March 2018

"SPACs: Overview," Practical Law, Practice Note, December 2015