Daniel J. Norris
Director
Dan's practice focuses on representing buyers and sellers in merger and acquisition transactions and corporate divestitures, corporate finance transactions including private securities offerings, commercial lending, complex contracting and real estate development. Dan has specific industry experience in insurance, with Real Estate Brokers, in alternative energy, Construction and real estate development, and with Health and Fitness Clubs and Consulting and Professional Services.
Department
Corporate
Areas of Practice
- Merger and Acquisition
- Securities
- Corporate Finance
- Contracts
Representative Clients & Work
- The Masiello Group, Ltd.
- GroSolar
- SIAA, Inc.
- Bank of America
- Brown Brothers Harriman
- Answer is Fitness, Inc
- Represented regional home healthcare medical products company in a $24,000,000 stock sale to the leading national provider of home healthcare products and services.
- Represented public company in the energy industry in $20,000,000 private debt financing.
- Represented Fortune 100 company in the sale of one of its business units and associated real estate.
- Represented specialty outdoor equipment designer and manufacturer in a round of financing from a global leader in the outdoor equipment industry involving the issuance of Series A Preferred Stock and Warrants.
- Represented a leading regional real estate brokerage firm in the restructuring of a joint venture with a Fortune 500 company related to real estate settlement services.
- Represented solar energy company in a financing transaction with a venture capital investor involving the issuance of Series A Preferred Stock.
- Represented New England-based solar energy company with the acquisition of a business in Washington State.
- Serves as corporate counsel to public company held company in the wireless communications industry in merger with a public company.
- Represented employee benefits and property and casualty insurance agency with the sale of its property and casualty line of business in an asset sale to a regional insurance brokerage company.
- Represented founding member of a medical practice with the redemption of his stock by the practice.
- Represented Canadian manufacturing company and its United States subsidiary with a secured financing from the U. S. branch of a Canadian bank and the guaranty of debt the manufacturing company has with a Canadian bank by the U.S. subsidiary.
- Represented company based in New York in the commercial maritime communications industry in the private placement of Series A Preferred Stock and warrants in a negotiated sale to venture capital investors in two rounds.
Admissions
Supreme Court of New Hampshire, U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire; Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
Professional & Association Memberships
New Hampshire Bar Association, Business Law Section; Salem (NH) Bar Association; American Bar Association, Business law Section
Recognition
Dan is a graduate of Leadership New Hampshire Class of 2004 and was named to the Manchester Union Leader's 40 Under Forty list for 2004 Dan is recognized as a Leader in Corporate/M&A work in the 2006 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers.
Community Involvement
- Boys and Girls Club of Greater Salem (NH) Board of Directors, (recipient of the Club's 2007 President Award for outstanding board service.)
- Holds office of Advocate for the Bishop Peterson Counsel of the Knights of Columbus
- Member of the New England Legal Foundation New Hampshire Advisory Committee
- Chair, Town of Salem Charter Reform Committee
- (former) Vice Chair of the Town of Salem (NH) Zoning Board of Adjustment
Career
- J.D., Northeastern University School of Law, 1995
- Law clerk for the New Hampshire Superior Court
- Intern with the Civil Bureau of the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office
- B.A., with distinction, Purdue University, 1992
Recent Publications and Lectures
- The Best Defense to Construction Litigation
- The Series LLC - an Untested Asset Firewall
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