Daniel Ruzi, Associate
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Daniel Ruzi

Associate
Biography

Daniel Ruzi is an associate in the firm’s Corporate and Securities Practice Group. Daniel represents public and private companies, including private equity funds and strategic clients, in connection with a wide range of domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings and other significant corporate governance matters.

Daniel has experience drafting and negotiating the terms of transaction documents, including merger agreements, stock and asset purchase agreements, voting agreements, exclusivity agreements, confidentiality agreements and escrow agreements. Daniel leverages his experience when advising clients on complex issues. His detail-oriented approach ensures that potential risks are identified, key provisions are carefully structured, and clients are positioned to achieve their strategic objectives with clarity and confidence.

Credentials

Bar Admissions

  • New York


Court Admissions

  • Supreme Court of New York


Education

  • Columbia Law School (J.D.)
    • Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
    • Parker School Certificate for Achievement in International and Comparative Law recipient
    • Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, Staff Member
    • Pro Bono Honoree
  • Indiana University Bloomington (B.S., with distinction)
Experience

Representative Experience

  • Avon Products, Inc. in its sale of substantially all of its assets to Natura &Co and its affiliates, effected through a $125 million credit bid in connection with its chapter 11 proceedings.*
  • Brookfield Asset Management and its portfolio company Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC, in the sale of the Power Delivery Business of BHI Energy to United Utility Services (a portfolio company of Bernhard Capital Partners).*
  • Brookfield Asset Management and its portfolio company Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC, in its acquisition of Bartlett Holdings, Inc. (d/b/a BHI Energy) from AE Industrial Partners, LP.*
  • Everstream Solutions LLC (a portfolio company of InfraBridge Investors and DigitalBridge Group) in its sale of certain network assets to Lakefront Fiber.*
  • Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. in its $960 million acquisition of Antares Pharma, Inc.*
  • Johnson & Johnson in its $4 billion registered offering of U.S. Dollar-denominated notes and an aggregate $2.7 billion registered offering of Euro-denominated notes to fund the acquisition of Shockwave.*
  • MGM Resorts International in its $546 million pending sale of MGM Northfield Park to private equity funds managed by Clairvest Group Inc.*
  • Midwest Fiber Holdings LP in its entry into a $285 million stalking horse asset purchase agreement with Bluebird MidWest, LLC, an affiliate of Bluebird Fiber, in connection with its chapter 11 proceedings.*
  • Phoenix Services Topco LLC, a provider of steel mill services to leading, global steel producing companies in the U.S. and abroad, in connection with its chapter 11 cases.*
  • Redbox Entertainment Inc. in its sale to Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, Inc.*
  • Sanofi in its sale of Enjaymo® to a subsidiary of Recordati Industrai Chimica E Farmacuetica S.p.A.*
  • Sunlight Financial Holdings Inc. and its debtor affiliates, a leading solar financial services company, in connection with its prepackaged chapter 11 cases and acquisition by a consortium of established investors in the solar financing industry and its senior secured lender.*
  • Superior Industries International, Inc. in its sale to a group of its term loan investors, including Oaktree Capital Management.*
  • TE Connectivity Ltd. with its re-domestication from Switzerland to Ireland.*

*Includes matters handled prior to joining Snell & Wilmer.

Previous Professional Experience

  • Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
    • Associate
    • Summer Associate
  • Honorable Nicholas G. Garaufis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Judicial Intern