Dan Litowitz is the Global M&A Deputy Practice Group Leader and a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions practice.

He has considerable U.S. and global experience in a broad range of strategic transactions, including cash and stock mergers, tender and exchange offers, private equity transactions, stock and asset acquisition and disposition transactions, and joint ventures for U.S. and multinational clients.

Dan started his career at Shearman & Sterling in 1999 and was a member of the M&A practice until 2010; he rejoined the firm in 2014.

• Paramount Global (f/k/a ViacomCBS Inc.) in:
  • its $1.6 billion sale of Simon & Schuster to an affiliate of KKR;
  • its $500 million sale of CNET Media Group to Red Ventures;
  • the $30 billion merger with CBS Corporation (awarded Most Innovative Deal of the Year - The Deal, 2020);
  • the separation of Viacom Inc. and CBS Corporation into two publicly traded companies; and
  • its distribution of its interest in Blockbuster Inc. through a split-off exchange offer
• CVS Health Corp. in:
  • its $10.6 billion acquisition of NYSE-listed Oak Street Health (awarded Americas Corporate M&A Mega Deal of The Year – the M&A Atlas Awards 2023);
  • its $69 billion acquisition of NYSE-listed Aetna Inc. This industry-transformative deals was awarded M&A Deal of the Year - The American Lawyer, 2018; and
  • its acquisition of US Bioservices Corporation from AmerisourceBergen Corporation
• JetBlue Airways Corp. in:
  • its attempted $3.8 billion acquisition of Spirit Airlines for 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;
  • the entry into the Northeast Alliance, a strategic partnership with American Airlines;
  • its entry into a co-brand credit card agreement with Barclaycard;
  • the acquisition of slots from American Airlines, Inc. in connection with the merger of American Airlines, Inc. and US Airways Group, Inc.; and
  • the sale to Deutsche Lufthansa AG of 19% of JetBlue’s outstanding common stock
• Liberty Global plc in:
  • its pending spin-off of Sunrise, its Swiss telecommunications business, as well as its prior €6.3 billion acquisition of Sunrise Communications Group AG;
  • its re-domiciliation of the listed company from the United Kingdom to Bermuda;
  • its acquisition of a 4.92% stake in Vodafone Group plc;
  • the U.S. aspects of its £31 billion joint venture with Telefónica SA to merge their Virgin Media and O2 operations in the UK;
  • the U.S. aspects of its purchase of full control of Telenet Group Holding NV; and
  • its $2.7 billion self tender for its Nasdaq-listed Class A Shares and Class C Shares
• Albemarle Corporation in its acquisition, through a joint venture with Mineral Resources Limited, of the Wodgina Hard Rock Lithium Mine and in the $3.2 billion sale of its Chemetall Surface Treatment business to BASF SE
• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan in its sale of the assets of Meadowbrook Insurance Agency to Arthur J. Gallagher and its $740 million acquisition, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Accident Fund Insurance Company of America, of AmeriTrust Group, Inc. from Fosun International Limited
• Goldman Sachs Bank, on behalf of Marcus, its consumer digital finance business unit, in the $1.9 billion purchase of the General Motors co-branded credit card portfolio from Capital One and in the entry of multiple sales finance lending platforms
• Citigroup Inc. in its acquisition and disposition of various domestic and international credit card portfolios, including its acquisition of the credit card portfolios and entry into related credit card program agreements with Costco, L.L. Bean, Brooks Brothers, Home Depot and Macy’s
• Comenity Bank, a subsidiary of Alliance Data Systems, in the sales of each of the PayPal, HSN and Crate & Barrel credit card portfolios to Synchrony Financial
• Glatfelter Corporation in its $308 million acquisition of the Jacob Holm Group, its separate acquisitions of Georgia-Pacific’s U.S. and European nonwovens businesses for $175 million and $185 million, respectively, its $360 million sale of its Specialty Paper Business Unit to Lindsay Goldberg LLC, its $235 million acquisition of Concert Industries Corp.
• Bunge Limited in its sale of certain of its U.S. grain origination elevators to Zen-Noh Grain Corporation, and its $946 million acquisition of 70% of Loders Croklaan from IOI Corporation Berhad
• Advanced Disposal Services, Inc. in its $4.6 billion public company acquisition by Waste Management, Inc. and related regulatory divestitures to GFL Environmental, Inc.
• Altice USA, Inc. in its spin-off from Altice N.V.
• NBC Universal, Inc. in the restructuring of its investment in ION Media Networks, Inc. (f/k/a Paxson Communications Corporation)
• Cisco Systems, Inc. in its acquisition of Singularity Networks, Inc.
• American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc. in connection with its $1.6 billion cash and stock public company acquisition of Metaldyne Performance Group Inc.
• Wausau Paper Corp. in its $513 million public company acquisition by Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget
• The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation in the sale of its business in Latin America and the acquisition of Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corporation
• The Dow Chemical Company in its $18.8 billion public company acquisition of Rohm and Haas Company and the disposition of its Morton Salt business for $1.675 billion
• Nokia Corporation in its $8.1 billion public company acquisition of NAVTEQ Corporation
• Cadbury Schweppes plc in its divestiture of its Americas beverages business and the listing of Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc. on the NYSE, in its acquisition of the Adams confectionary business from Pfizer Inc. and in the sale of its international carbonated soft drink business to The Coca-Cola Company
• Credit Suisse Group in its $11.5 billion public company acquisition of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc.

• Named Law360 M&A "MVP" (2023)
• Named as a Top Healthcare Lawyer in North America, MergerLinks (2023)
• Recommended Lawyer, M&A/Corporate and Commercial: M&A: Large Deals ($1BN+), Legal 500 USA, 2023