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 $1.05 billion IPO and 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
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