Daniel C. Seale

Dan Seale, Global Chair of the firm’s Banking & Private Credit Practice, represents clients in complex leveraged finance transactions, with a particular focus on acquisition financings.

Having advised on hundreds of transactions over more than two decades, Dan draws on his broad exposure to the global financial markets and its key participants to advise banks, private credit funds, and borrowers on:

• Large-cap syndicated loans
• Middle market loans
• Unitranche loans
• Asset-based loans, including FILO and back leverage financings
• Other private credit transactions

Dan previously served on the firm’s Strategic Client Committee. He is also former Vice Chair of Latham’s Associates Committee and former Local Chair for the Finance Department in the New York office.

Dan served as a judicial clerk to Chief Judge Ronald Lagueux of the US District Court for the District of Rhode Island.

Thought Leadership

• Co-author, “Global Overview,” Private Credit, Chambers Global Practice Guides, March 2025
• Co-author, “US Trends & Development,” Private Credit, Chambers Global Practice Guides, March 2025
• Co-author, “US Q&A,” Private Credit, Chambers Global Practice Guides, March 2025
• Co-author, “United States Lending & Secured Finance,” Legal 500 Country Comparative Guides, April 2021, 2023, 2024
• Co-author, “The Dynamics of European Covenant Lite,” The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Lending & Secured Finance 2023
• Speaker, “Financing an Acquisition,” PLI Leveraged Finance Conference, May 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
• Co-author, “Direct Lending: Fierce Competition and Escalating Deal Sizes Return,” Private Capital Insights, April 2021
• Speaker, “Direct Lending Panel,” PLI Leveraged Finance Conference, May 2019
• Co-author, “Chapter 6: Direct Lending and Other Alternate Capital: Current Direct Lending Terms in 2019,” PLI Leveraged Finance, February 2019
• Co-author, “The Continued Growth of European Covenant Lite,” The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Lending & Secured Finance 2019
• “Expert Q&A on Direct Lending,” Thomson Reuters Practical Law 2017