Dan P
Partner, Debt Finance at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDan P is a Partner specialising in debt and leveraged finance with a decade of experience advising private equity funds, borrowers and portfolio companies on complex domestic and cross-border acquisition financings, LBOs, infrastructure and fund-level financing. He has progressed from associate to partner roles at leading global firms and is recognised as a Next Generation Partner in Legal500, reflecting both technical depth and market impact. Dan combines courtroom-calibre transactional structuring with hands-on experience in restructurings, preferred equity and holdco instruments, frequently navigating multi-jurisdictional and public-to-private deals. Unusually for a finance specialist, he brings practical engineering and DevOps instincts from active contributions to major open-source cloud delivery projects like Spinnaker, signalling an aptitude for systems thinking and operational resilience. Based in England, he leverages cross-border legal training and commercial banking experience to deliver pragmatic solutions on high-value, high-complexity financings.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice Banking Corporate Finance and Securities Law, Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice Banking Corporate Finance and Securities Law at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
English, Italian
Github Skills (59)
api-rest10
kubernetes10
google-cloud-platform10
javascript10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
validations10
restful-api10
api-design10
groovy10
testing10
fest10
configuration-management10
git-repository10
validation10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
spinnaker/clouddriver
Jun 2016 - Jul 2021
read and write operations across cloud providers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 8 reviews, 98 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Dan implemented validation for GCE custom machine types within the clouddriver project, focusing on Google Cloud Engine (GCE). They modified code across several files, including test and main groovy files. These changes involve checking the validity of instance types, particularly related to custom machine configurations such as custom-2-2048, and integrating validations of the memory and vCPU count.
gcpproviderscloudcloud-providersazure
spinnaker/gate
Aug 2016 - Mar 2021
Spinnaker API Gateway
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 31 commits, 57 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the Spinnaker API Gateway, specifically the gate-web component, enhancing server group and instance services by adding context and preventing merge issues. They integrated API operation descriptions using Swagger annotations, improving documentation. Further contributions included adding an endpoint for evaluating pipeline expressions and implementing various canary features, including endpoints for configuration, deletion, and results.
api-gatewayapigolanggatewayspinnaker
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