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f Dan R. Johnson - Partner - Corporate Group
35 New Bridge Street, London EC4V 6BW U.K.

Tel.: (+44) 0800 763 1235 (D.D.) Email: dan.johnson@martineau-uk.com

Mob.: (+44) 07788 537 187 (Cellphone) Fax: (+44) 0800 763 1285

P.A.: (+44) 0800 763 1232 jean.mudd@martineau-uk.com

Dan Johnson is a Partner within Martineau’s Corporate Group and is based in the firm’s
City of London office. Qualified to practice under English law, Dan is a lawyer whose
work is both national and international, encompassing British and worldwide business in
a wide variety of forms. Dan advises upon, and assists with, a broad range of legal and
commercial issues arising in relation to most aspects of global commerce (and its trading
and financing structures), which involves him in formulating, negotiating, documenting
and implementation of a wide range of ‘peace of mind’ solutions to clients’ requirements.

As a member of the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions Team, Dan specialises in domestic
and cross-border transactional work, usually & broadly involving the exchange of cash for
other business assets (and vice-versa) in all varieties. Dan is also a member of the firm’s
Corporate Finance Team and the firm’s Banking Team and as such is involved in a range
of securities and debt finance arrangements (arising ancillary to his transactional work).

Dan’s predominant areas of work experience and his particular legal expertise include :-

Mergers & Acquisitions (plus other Business and Corporate Structures Transactions)

Extensive involvement with U.K. and overseas business transactions and public and
private company acquisitions, disposals, takeovers, mergers, demergers, reorganisations
and other forms of M & A deals (on the buy, sell and financing side), recently including:-
§ the acquisition for an American private equity house of the worldwide hose
manufacturing operations of U.K. listed company, Senior plc (then in the ‘FTSE
250’) for an GBP £ eight figure amount cash and ‘stub equity’ consideration;
§ acting for a privately owned highly prominent ethnic food manufacturer and
distributor with its ‘buy and build’ programme (prior to the enlarged group being
sold for an undisclosed GBP £ nine figure amount initial cash and ‘earn-out’
consideration to ‘FTSE 100’ company, Associated British Foods plc);
§ the sale of Aspen (Actuaries and Pensions Consultants) plc to ‘FTSE 100’ Capita
Group plc for a GBP £ substantial undisclosed cash consideration; and
§ the acquisition by a management team (as part of a pre-packaged administration
sale and purchase transaction) of the worldwide business and material assets of
‘Strategic Dataworks’, the world's leading supplier of shipping, shipbroking,
communication and documentation software to the maritime industry.

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Venture Capital / Private Securities Finance and Joint Ventures

Substantial involvement with all aspects of venture capital and private equity funds and
their investments, leveraged buy-out transactions (particularly in the U.K. and mainland-
European mid-market) and joint ventures (using various structures), recently including:-
§ Advising the Rainbow Seed Fund upon revisions to its limited partnership
structure, following the receipt of a new round of HM Government funding for
technologies in the public sector - taking its asset base to GBP £10,000,000;
§ Advising a U.K. clearing bank with regard to a GBP £ undisclosed nine figure
amount development capital investment by a private equity house for a minority
interest in a company jointly owned by a consortium of financial institutions; and
§ Acting for the existing (and new second tier) management team in the
restructuring of the equity financing arrangements for a private equity fund
majority owned worldwide travel business with a €120 million annual turnover;

Public Securities Finance and Markets Regulation

Considerable involvement with flotations, IPOs, secondary fundraisings and other

arrangements for the admission of securities to trading on public securities markets (both
in London and on other global stock exchanges), together with on-going regulatory and
transactional advice and assistance to participants in such markets, recently including:-
§ Providing English law advice relating to the flotation on the Johannesburg Stock
Exchange of the world’s first publicly tradable carbon credit derivative security;
§ Legal work relating to new admissions, share issuances and transactions by a
number of companies admitted to trading upon the LSE’s AIM; and
§ Advising and assisting the promoters of various venture capital trusts (VCTs) and
enterprise investment scheme (EIS) funds with their fundraising arrangements,
merger transactions, compliance with financial services and markets legislation
and with the making of their investments and other ongoing issues.

Debt Finance (Including Banking) and Security Arrangements

Significant involvement with a range of structured finance facilities (with related security
arrangements) on behalf of lenders (including one of the U.K.’s largest clearing banks)
and other debt finance providers (of all types) plus their borrowers, recently including:-
§ a large number of trade and acquisition finance facilities for the London, Mumbai
and various other worldwide branch offices of the largest privately owned bank in
India (including the finance for the £80m+ acquisition of the “Typhoo” tea
business from London listed company, Premier Foods plc - and subsequent
finance for that business’ merger with the “Brooke Bond” tea brand business).

Taxation

Advising (generally in tandem with his clients’ established advisers) upon the taxation
implications of all the transactions and financing arrangements in which he is involved.

Additional Information

§ BA (Hons) - Law - Durham University (1989); Qualified as a Solicitor in 1992.

§ Trained with (what is now) Eversheds in Birmingham, West Midlands;
§ Joined (the former) ‘Martineau Johnson’ in 2007 after an early career including
Nabarro (Assistant Solicitor) and DLA Piper (Senior Associate) in London.
§ Resides in Putney, South-West London with Olga & son, Aleks (Born August 2007).

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