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Daniel E. Fisher Dan is a member of the Corporate and Commercial Practice Group, and is the Mergers and Acquisitions Team Co-Chair. The principal focus of Dan's practice is business and finance transactions. His transactions experience is broad-based throughout many industries, but with particular emphasis in the healthcare, health insurance, restaurant, and energy and natural resources industries. Dan has experience in structuring, negotiating and closing complex mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and reorganization transactions for publicly-held and privately-owned businesses. He also has experience in financing and capital formation strategies for businesses, including venture capital and private equity offerings, commercial loan transactions, and government-backed financing strategies for nursing, assisted living and other healthcare facilities. Dan's practice also includes the representation of existing and start-up businesses in general corporate and commercial matters.
Education
A.B., Business Administration, with Emphasis in Accounting; Political Science Minor, Wittenberg University, 1983
J.D., University of Cincinnati College of Law, 1986
Admitted to Practice
Kentucky, 1986
Courts Admitted to Practice
United States Tax Court, 1986
Professional Memberships and Affiliations
Louisville Bar Association
Kentucky Bar Association
Achievements in Areas of Concentration
Martindale-Hubbell "AV" Rating, indicating very high to preeminent legal ability and very high ethical standards as established by confidential opinions of the members of the Bar
Structured and negotiated numerous mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and other transactions for publicly and privately-owned businesses
Counsel to regional and national assisted living companies in numerous domestic acquisition and divestiture transactions, and recapitalization transactions
Counsel in several mergers and acquisitions of health insurance companies and insurance companies of regional and national significance
Structured and completed several private offerings of securities for closely-held businesses and venture capital transactions; frequent advisor on private capital formation strategies
Counsel to a national energy services company in an approximately $1 billion dollar acquisition of a bankrupt rural electric cooperative
Extensive experience in representing clients in the restaurant industry, including franchising, restaurant development, and mergers and acquisitions in anticipation of initial public offerings
Internship, Internal Revenue Service, Office of District Counsel
Honors and Awards
Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, 2008
Lutheran Scholarship Award, Phi Eta Sigma Freshman Honorary, and Tau Pi Phi Business Honorary, Wittenberg University
Dean's Honors List, University of Cincinnati, 1983-86
Civic and Charitable Involvement
President of the Board of Trustees, The Council on Mental Retardation, Inc. (June 2001 through June 2004)
Trustee, Board of Trustees, The Council on Mental Retardation, Inc.
Finance Chair, Seneca District, Boy Scouts of America
Session Member, Anchorage Presbyterian Church
Former Session Member, Highland Presbyterian Church
Selected Publications and Presentations
"Significant Legal Developments for In-House and Corporate Counsel," Louisville Bar Association, March 2005
"Shareholders, Directors and Officers," "Statutory Law" and "Business Tort and Product Liability" Updates, Corporate Law Update of Greenebaum, February, 2003.
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