People
Daniel Litowitz
Biography
Dan has over two decades of experience advising U.S. and multinational public companies in a broad range of public and private transactions, including mergers, hostile acquisitions, tender and exchange offers, acquisition and disposition transactions, and joint ventures.
He has advised his clients on several industry transformational deals across industries and regularly advises boards and senior management of his public company clients with their governance issues as well as strategic M&A.
He started his career at Shearman in 1999 and was a member of the M&A practice until 2010; he rejoined Shearman in 2014. Dan was the Deputy Practice Group Leader of the Global M&A Group at Shearman before the merger and most recently, he was Co-Head of the US M&A Group at A&O Shearman.
Practice areas
- Corporate and M&A
- M and A JVs and corporate reorganizations
- Private client
- Financial services advisory and regulatory
- Asset management M and A
- Tech transactions
- Global employment and compensation
- Public company advisory and corporate governance
Sectors
- Financial institutions
- Technology
- Energy
- Private capital
- Private credit
- Industrials and manufacturing
- Automotive
- Capital solutions
Selected experience
- CVS Health Corp. in its $10.6 billion acquisition of NYSE-listed Oak Street Health. This deal was awarded Americas Corporate M&A Mega Deal of The Year - The M&A Atlas Awards, 2023
- CVS Health Corp. in its $69 billion acquisition of NYSE-listed Aetna Inc. This industry-transformative deal was awarded M&A Deal of the Year - The American Lawyer, 2018
- JetBlue Airways Corp. in its attempted $3.8 billion acquisition of Spirit Airlines following JetBlue’s hostile, all cash tender offer to acquire Spirit for $30 per share and its “vote no” proxy campaign against Spirit’s $2.9 billion merger with Frontier Group
- Paramount Global (f/k/a ViacomCBS Inc.) in the $30 billion merger with CBS Corporation, reuniting two companies that separated in 2005. This deal was awarded Most Innovative Deal of the Year - The Deal, 2020
- Liberty Global plc in its re-domiciliation of the listed company from the United Kingdom to Bermuda. This transaction, which required shareholder approval, was accomplished through a U.K. scheme of arrangement
- CVS Health Corp. in the acquisition of US Bioservices Corporation from AmerisourceBergen Corporation
- JetBlue Airways Corp. in the entry into the Northeast Alliance, a strategic partnership with American Airlines
- JetBlue Airways Corp. in its entry into a co-brand credit card agreement with Barclaycard
- JetBlue Airways Corp. in the acquisition of slots from American Airlines, Inc. in connection with the merger of American Airlines, Inc. and US Airways Group, Inc.
- JetBlue Airways Corp. in the sale to Deutsche Lufthansa AG of 19% of JetBlue’s outstanding common stock
Education
- B.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1996
- J.D., New York University School of Law, 1999
Admissions
- New York, 2000