Daniel Birch

Dan is a partner in the Energy & Natural Resources Group based in Reed Smith’s London office. Daniel has extensive experience advising on a broad range of structured finance transactions across a wide variety of asset classes, with particular experience in structured commodity and strategic equity transactions.

Experience

Representative matters

Advised a Swedish manufacturer of specialty naphthenic oils and bitumen in relation to an inventory monetisation transaction.

Advised an international investment bank on a supply chain intermediation and financing of agricultural commodities.

Advised commodities trading companies on commodities intermediation arrangements in Denmark, Germany, Poland and Spain.

Advised a Swedish manufacturer of specialty naphthenic oils and bitumen in relation to an inventory monetisation transaction.

Advised an international investment bank on a supply chain intermediation and financing of agricultural commodities.

Advised commodities trading companies on commodities intermediation arrangements in Denmark, Germany, Poland and Spain.

Advised a European refinery on a complex inventory monetisation and processing transaction

Advised an American commodities trading company on a series of European financing transactions

Advised an international investment bank on an inventory monetisation in the context of the sale of a refinery

Advised an investment bank as bidder in relation to the auction of a portfolio of commodity derivatives

Advised an international bank on a natural gas storage capacity financing

Advised an international bank on a multi-billion-pound stake build in a publicly listed company through a combination of equity derivatives

Advising a US investment bank on a margin loan over a managed portfolio of listed shares.

Advised an international investment bank on a "take private" margin loan transaction with a complex security package involving BVI, UAE and English law security arrangements

Advised an international investment bank on a margin loan transaction with security over a basket of equity securities

Advised a European investment bank on a repo of various equities listed on the Moscow Stock Exchange

Advised a financial institution on the entry into of a funded collar transaction referencing Shares listed on the integrated Madrid, Bilbao, Barcelona and Valencia Stock Exchanges with Luxembourg law governed security arrangements

Advised the Lenders on a syndicated non-recourse margin loan referencing Shares listed on Frankfurt Stock Exchange with Luxembourg law governed security arrangements

Advised a number of financial institutions on the restructuring of a funded collar transaction referencing Shares listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange with English law governed security arrangements

Advising a financial institution on the entry into of an unfunded collar transactions referencing Shares listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange