Daniel Abercromby is a partner in the Hong Kong office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and is a member of the firm’s Finance Practice Group. Daniel represents GPs across their various strategies - including private equity, infrastructure, real assets, credit and special situations - in a wide variety of financings in the Asia-Pacific region. Daniel has extensive experience in leveraged and acquisition financings, direct lending transactions and special situations investments, together with the refinancing and restructuring of such transactions. He has worked in Asia for over a decade and has jurisdictional expertise in the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, Greater China, Korea, and Japan.
Daniel is ranked as a leading lawyer for China Banking & Finance: Leveraged & Acquisition Finance in the Chambers Greater China Region guide, where a client noted that “Dan is excellent and my first choice on Asia-related transactions." He is also listed as a notable practitioner for Leveraged Finance in Hong Kong in IFLR1000 and has been named a recommended lawyer for Banking & Finance in Hong Kong in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific guide, which described him as “technically strong, collaborative and very commercial.”
Some of his recent and most significant experience includes advising:*
- Advent International on a number of acquisition finance, structured finance and margin loan transactions, including the leveraged financings for their acquisitions of RA Chem Pharma, ZCL Chemicals, Eureka Forbes, Avra Labs, and TTK Healthcare's pharma business, the refinancing and subsequent recapitalization at exit of facilities for Manjushree Technopak, the refinancing of facilities for The Learning Lab and margin loans in respect of their investments in Aditya Birla Capital and Eureka Forbes
- Blackstone on a number of transactions, including their strategic partnership with HUMAIN to build data centers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a margin loan in respect of their investment in the Embassy Office Parks REIT and leveraged financings for their acquisitions of Global Sources Inc. and Shya Hsin
- DigitalBridge on a number of data center-related financings, including the MYR1.125 billion financing for their purchase of a major stake in the data center business of Malaysian telecoms firm TIME dotcom and the HK$1.8 billion financing for their carve-out acquisition of data center assets in Hong Kong and Malaysia from PCCW
- KKR on various transactions, including the financings for their acquisitions of Samhwa Co., Ltd. from TPG Capital, two Korean waste management companies from SK Ecoplant and the EuroKids K-12 education group
- TA Associates on a number of financings, including the leveraged financing and subsequent refinancing and recapitalization in connection with their acquisition of a controlling stake in Zifo RnD Solutions and the financing in connection with their investment in the AlephYa group of schools
- TPG Capital on a number of financings, including the approximately US$200 million-equivalent bank financing and the subsequent unitranche refinancing for their Singapore, Vietnam, and Malaysia-based education platform
- A number of global special situations investors on complex structured financings (both onshore and offshore) in Korea, Southeast Asia and India
*Includes matters handled prior to joining Gibson Dunn.
Daniel received his Bachelor of Laws (with Honors) and Bachelor of Arts from the University of Auckland. He is admitted to practice in England and Wales and Hong Kong.
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Credentials
Education:
- University of Auckland - 2006 LL.B. (Hons)
- University of Auckland - 2006 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- England & Wales - Solicitor
- Solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong