Daniel P. Gibbons
Advises issuers and financial institutions on all forms of capital markets transactions with a focus on fintech, digital assets and other innovative technologies.
Dan represents corporate and financial institution clients in a wide variety of public and private capital-raising transactions, including IPOs, private placements and other equity raises; investment-grade, high-yield and convertible debt issuance; and various leveraged finance transactions. He also advises on strategic transactions, corporate governance, SEC reporting and securities law compliance.
Dan’s transactional practice spans numerous industries, with a focus on fintech, digital assets and other innovative technologies.
He also counsels a broad spectrum of clients – including leading stablecoin issuers, trading platforms, asset managers and other ecosystem participants – on numerous digital asset matters, often advising on the securities law compliance of novel products and innovative financial technologies.
A crypto thought leader, Dan has spoken on panels at leading industry events and has participated as a guest lecturer on digital asset regulation at NYU School of Law.
Experience
Selected Representations
- Robinhood $2.1 billion IPO
- Grayscale Bitcoin Trust approved as world’s largest bitcoin ETF and Grayscale Ethereum Trust approved as the world’s largest ether ETF
- Circle on multiple commercial transactions, including:
- Strategic commercial arrangement with Binance to accelerate global adoption of its USDC stablecoin
- Partnership with Nubank to extend access to its USDC stablecoin to Brazilian Nubank customers
- Launch of USDC smart contract enabling transfers of BlackRock’s tokenized BUIDL fund over the Ethereum Network
- Soho House $420 million IPO
- StoneX Group $550 million senior secured notes offering
- Strategy on its $21 billion at-the-market offering (the largest in history), over $8 billion in convertible notes offerings and inaugural perpetual strike preferred stock offering
- Galaxy Digital on various transactions, including:
- $500 million and $402.5 million exchangeable notes offerings
- C$169.4 million ordinary shares offering
- Proposed domestication to the US and Nasdaq listing
- Clarivate $6.8 billion acquisition of CPA Global and $5.3 billion acquisition of ProQuest
- Delta Air Lines $9 billion SkyMiles secured financings
- ExxonMobil on various offerings totaling over $40 billion of senior notes
Other Experience Highlights
IPOs and Other Equity Offerings
- AC Immune, Affimed, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Clarivate, Clear Channel, Flexion Therapeutics, General Motors, Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Hostess Brands, MicroStrategy Incorporated d/b/a Strategy, Orion Engineered Carbons, Patheon, Red Rock Resorts, Wabtec, WEBTOON Entertainment, ZIM Integrated Shipping Services
Investment-Grade and Convertible Debt
- Avaya, ExxonMobil, Fiserv, Flexion Therapeutics, Galaxy Digital, General Motors, GM Financial, Horace Mann Educators, KKR, Lennox International, OmniCell, Parsons, Semtech, Strategy, Trimble, W.W. Grainger, Workiva, World Wrestling Entertainment
High-Yield Debt and Liability Management
- Acadia Healthcare, Avaya, ATI Physical Therapy, Bombardier, Caesars, Clarivate, Clear Channel, Dun & Bradstreet, Kontoor Brands, Federal Express, iHeart Communications, JW Aluminum, Hilton, Hovnanian, Medallion Financial, Party City, PetSmart, PL Developments, Shutterfly, SPX FLOW, Station Casinos, StoneX, Trinity Industries, Wabash National
Insights
News
Recognition
IFLR1000 – Capital Markets: Equity, United States, Rising Star Partner
Education
- summa cum laude
- Phi Beta Kappa
- University Honors Program
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York