Legal Services

Danis & Partners LLP provides end-to-end commercial counsel to established businesses, high-growth ventures and institutional investors. Our sector specialists deliver sharp, practical advice across the full lifecycle of a transaction — from structuring and diligence to negotiation, closing and ongoing compliance.

Practice Areas

Eight focused practices, each led by a partner with deep industry experience. We staff matters leanly: a partner, a senior associate and a junior associate — never leveraging you into a pyramid.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Buy-side and sell-side transactions from €10M to €500M. Led 23 mid-market deals in 2024, including carve-outs and cross-border acquisitions. Flat-fee diligence packages available.

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Fund formation, fundraisings, secondary transactions and exits. Advised on €320M of VC investment last year, with termsheets delivered in 48 hours on request.

Commercial & IP Licensing

Draft and negotiate R&D partnerships, software licensing, manufacturing agreements and technology assignment. Full suite of templates tailored to your stack.

Employment & Founders

Executive comp, equity incentive plans, separation agreements and workplace investigations. Regular guidance to CHROs at 14 portfolio companies.

Compliance & Regulatory

GDPR posture, export controls, DAC6 and sectoral use-cases. Half of our team are dual-qualified; they dissect rules into actionable manuals.

International Trade

Trade sanctions, customs planning, foreign direct investment screening. Successfully challenged confiscatory tariff schedules for EU clients in 2024.

Industries

Our matrix structure enables a seamless intersection of legal expertise and real-sector challenges.

Technology & Software

SaaS licensing, patent disputes in semiconductors, AI model company formation.

Financial Services

Aukcijas platform, ROC consult, digital banking charter applications. 7 FinTech mandates active.

Healthcare & Lifesciences

GMP supplier contracts, phase-border data transfers, medical product compliance.

Energy Transition

PPAs, co-permitting, hydrogen pilot site agreements with tax equity architects.

Engagement Process

You will work directly with the partner, not a secretarial desk. Our risk department pre-assembles deadlines, and we begin most matters within 3 business days of intake.

  1. 01

    Intake & legal health check

    Forty-five-minute call, we map deliverables against quarterly committee cycles and flag runout matters before quoting.

  2. 02

    Fixed-fee or allocated-alcance

    For transactions over €2M we offer hourly up-front estimates; for contracts under 1,500 words we charge a flat per-commercial-term fee.

  3. 03

    Structured parallel worksite

    Using a decentralised issue-based evidence board, we cluster multiple witness requirements and deliver a single access key to your operations team, CFO and counsel.

  4. 04

    Negotiation & closeout

    We negotiate responsive redlines asynchronously via secure workspace. Final governance bible handed over with modelled fallback thresholds.

"For every closed matter in the past two quarters, we promised a meet‐competitor clause or equivalent business privilege protection. That discipline becomes the client memory of effective fairness."
— Elena Danis, Managing Partner