DAN ZACCHEI
President, Special Situations
Dan Zacchei is President, Special Situations, based in New York and has been at Sloane & Company since 2008. He advises a range of public and private companies, investment managers and private equity firms on media and investor communications strategies around special situations, shareholder activism, M&A, restructurings, litigation, crisis management and ongoing reputational positioning.
Recent engagements and representations of note include:
- CVS Health and Aetna in their $69 billion merger and subsequent integration
- New York Life in its $6.3 billion acquisition of Cigna’s Group Insurance business
- eBay in its $4 billion sale of StubHub
- Revlon in its ongoing debt repositioning and associated creditor litigation
- PG&E’s equity holders in the Company’s restructuring
- Issuers and investors in more than 200 shareholder activism and contested M&A situations including:
- Senator and Cannae Holdings in their bid for CoreLogic
- Cubic Corp. in its engagement with Elliott Management
- eBay in its engagement with Elliott Management and Starboard Value
- Genius Brands in its short defense against Hindenburg Research
- D. E. Shaw in its engagements with Emerson Electric, Lowe’s, EQT and Bunge
- Land and Buildings in multiple proxy contests and activist situations
- CymaBay in its proxy contest defense against Engine Capital
- Voce Capital in its proxy contest against Argo Group International
- OncoSec Immunotherapies in its proxy contest defense against Alpha Holdings
- Merrimack Pharmaceuticals in its proxy contest defense against JFL Capital
- HomeStreet Bank in its proxy contest defense against Roaring Blue Lion Capital in both 2019 and 2018
- Luby’s Inc. in its proxy contest defense against Bandera Partners
- Private equity firm Waterton Global Resource Management in its proxy contest against Hudbay Minerals Inc.
- Companies and boards in dozens of confidential activist preparedness assignments
- AmerisourceBergen around opioid-related issues and litigation
- Puerto Rico’s $72 billion restructuring
- Detroit’s Chapter 9
Prior to joining Sloane & Company, Dan was with Ruder Finn, where he worked in the Corporate Advisory group on crises and special situations. Dan graduated from the College of the Holy Cross Cum Laude, with a B.A. in History.