G. Daniel O'Donnell

Partner, Corporate and Securities, Dechert LLC

G. Daniel O'Donnell, chair of the private equity group and member of the firm's policy committee, is a nationally recognized advisor to private equity fund sponsors, corporations, and financial institutions as well as company management, boards of directors, and special committees. He represents clients on public and private mergers and acquisitions-both domestically and internationally-as well as corporate restructurings and corporate governance matters.

Mr. O'Donnell has been recognized for six consecutive years as a top lawyer for corporate/mergers and acquisitions and private equity by Chambers USA, where he has also been ranked among leading lawyers nationally for private equity buyouts. Chambers has praised him as a "fantastic negotiator with great business sense" and a "thoughtful and proactive attorney" who can "make the transaction happen." In addition, Mr. O'Donnell is listed in The Legal 500 (U.S.), which noted in its 2009 edition that he is "a terrific legal thinker with great business judgment." He is also listed in The Best Lawyers in America and as a leading dealmaker in The Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers.

Mr. O'Donnell has been involved in some of the major acquisition activity of the last 30 years, including the sale of Getty Oil to Texaco, the sale of Pennwalt Corporation to Elf Aquitaine, and the sale of Reliance Electric by Exxon Corporation. In addition, he has headed Dechert teams for private equity clients in more than 100 leveraged buyout and leveraged recapitalization transactions, including those involving Flender AG, American Microsystems, California Pizza Kitchen, J&L Specialty Steel, MagnaChip Semiconductor, Ntelos, Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, and Mohawk Industries, Inc. He has also handled many significant restructurings of both public and private companies, including Long John Silver's, O'Sullivan Industries, International Knife & Saw, Inc., Mediq, and Galey & Lord.

Representative Matters
Mr. O'Donnell has led teams on numerous mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions across a wide range of industries, including:

• Intersil Corporation in numerous acquisitions and dispositions, including its: $1.4 billion acquisition of Elantec Semiconductor, Inc., the largest technology transaction of the first quarter of 2002; $529 million acquisition of Xicor, Inc.; $365 million sale of Wireless Networking Products Group to GlobespanVirata, Inc.; $338 million sale of its discrete power business assets to Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation; and acquisitions of Sicom, Inc., Zilker Labs, Inc., D2Audio Corp, and No Wires Needed;
• Court Square Capital Partners and Weston Presidio in their $1.3 billion acquisition of publicly-traded MacDermid Incorporated, a specialty chemical company;
• Church & Dwight in its $380 million acquisition of the Del Pharmaceuticals division from Coty Inc.; its $325 million acquisition of Orange Glo International, a household cleaner products company and maker of OxiClean®; and its acquisition of the SpinBrush toothbrush business from Procter & Gamble;
• The management team of Getty Images, Inc. in the $2.4 billion acquisition of Getty Images by an affiliate of private equity firm Hellman & Friedman LLC and Getty Images Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Klein;
• Citigroup Venture Capital Equity Partners, L.P. and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan in their $1.1 billion acquisition of Worldspan, L.P. (owned by Delta Air Lines, Inc., Northwest Airlines Corp. and American Airlines parent AMR Corp.) and their $1.4 billion sale of Worldspan, L.P. to Travelport Ltd.;
• Swiss Reinsurance Company in its disposition of its Global Asset Protection Services division to XL Insurance;
• AmeriSource Health Corp. in its $3.7 billion merger of equals transaction with Bergen Brunswig Corp. to form AmerisourceBergen Corp.;
• Citigroup Venture Capital Equity Partners, L.P. in its $822 million acquisition of the non-memory business (now known as MagnaChip Semiconductor) of South Korean chip manufacturer Hynix Semiconductor Inc. Also represented MagnaChip Semiconductor in its subsequent $750 million Rule 144A/Regulation S offering, which was the largest high yield bond offering in the United States for a Korean-headquartered company and among the top four priced bond deals in the technology sector in the past three years at the time of issuance;
• Preferred Unlimited, Inc. in its $337 million acquisition, along with Golden Gate Capital, of U.S. Silica from Harbinger Capital; and
• Numerous private equity sponsors or Special Committees in "going private" transactions involving Delco Remy International, Inc., Sybron Chemicals, Cort Business Services, DavCo Restaurants Inc., and Insignia Financial Services.

In addition, Mr. O'Donnell has served as a member of the board of directors of numerous business corporations, including East River Bank.

Professional Activities
Member, Board of Advisors of the Penn Wharton Institute for Law and Economics
Member, Advisor Council of the University of Notre Dame College of Arts and Letters

Publications and Lectures

• Lecture, "Moderating Panel: Finding Gems Under Rocks – How to Drive Value Going Forward in Middle Markets"
• Lecture, "Opportunities and Challenges in Sector-Focused Private Equity Investment"
• Lecture, "Auction Strategies: Maximizing Value for Sellers and Buyers in M&A Transactions"
• Lecture, "KPMG Audit Committee Roundtable"

Education
University of Notre Dame, B.A., summa cum laude, 1973 University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., 1976, Order of the Coif, member of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, recipient of the McCall Prize for graduating first in his class

Bar Admission
Member, Pennsylvania Bar