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Daniel O’Brien

Senior Associate

Team: Legal

Office: London

CONTACT: dan@novara-law.com

Daniel has extensive experience leading clients through all aspects of complex corporate and commercial transactions across the technology, consumer goods and retail, life sciences, and agri-tech sectors. ​He graduated with law and finance degrees from the University of Otago and has experience at global law firm, DLA Piper.


His practice includes representing public and private companies in cross-border M&A transactions, advising venture capital funds and emerging growth companies on the full spectrum of early-stage investments and fundraisings, as well as on their day-to-day legal needs, and advising global private equity clients on the acquisition and disposal of portfolio companies. He is qualified to practice in New Zealand and England and Wales.

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DANIEL’S EXPERIENCE INCLUDES ADVISING:

  • Eppendorf on its acquisition of Genie Inc’s lab automation system from a US founder group.

  • Eppendorf on the successful sale of Bio-ITech B.V. (eLabNext) and related US assets to SciShield Holdings Inc.

  • Nexo on the acquisition of Buenbit, a leading Latin American digital assets platform.

  • Finistere Ventures on its seed investment in Scentian Bio, a New Zealand technology start up that harnesses smell receptors from insects with the goal of biosensing volatiles in food and human diseases.

  • Decentralized Web3 Software Technologies Fund on the recapitalization and exercise of its warrants in relation to a Chicago-based company operating an online marketplace for buying and selling gift cards.

  • Decentralized Web3 Software Technologies Fund on its successful Series D investment in a next-generation gaming company integrating blockchain technology into games to create digital economies where players can own, trade, and monetize in-game assets.

  • A New Zealand-based digital effects company on the sale of its VFX business to a NYSE-listed US acquirer for USD 1.6bn.

  • A large US-based private equity firm on its acquisition of a majority stake in an APAC technology procurement company.

  • New Zealand’s largest retail grocer and its second largest organization, including advising on over 100 of its franchisee and change of ownership transactions.

  • A NYSE listed tech company on the New Zealand aspects of its strategic takeover of a global SAP consulting business, worth over USD 450M.
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