About
Dan is a founding member of Rose Camenisch Stewart Mains PLLC and has been licensed and actively practicing since 1984.
Dan is AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rated™ by Martindale-Hubbell® for 2024 and has been since 2003. Dan is listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for 2024 & 2025 in the following practice areas: Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Real Estate Law, Real Estate Litigation and Securities/Capital Markets Law.
Dan was honored as a Kentucky Super Lawyer® for 2025 and prior years. He was also selected to 2024 Top 50 Lawyers in America List.
Dan is a member of the Fayette County, Kentucky and American Bar associations. He was formerly President of the Commercial Property Association of Lexington and is also a Charters Fellow of the Fayette Bar Foundation.
Practice Areas
Dan’s areas of practice include:
- Complex business and investment transactions
- Commercial real estate purchases, sales, leasing and exchanges
- Commercial lending, representing both lenders and borrowers
- Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures
- Equity and debt financings
- Corporate and limited liability company structuring and operations
- Securities offerings and compliance
- Venture capital and private equity transactions
- Business and financial restructurings
- Contract negotiations
- Outsourced general counsel
- Real estate development and construction
- Title insurance and escrow services
- Equine transactions
Representative Transactions
A sampling of Dan’s experience includes:
Complex Business and Investment Transactions
- Technology company in negotiation and sale to division of a public company
- Technology company, in start-up phase including series A and B venture capital rounds, which eventually went public and achieved multi-billion dollar valuation
- Start-up specialty apparel retailer in formation, capitalization, growth phase, operations and ultimate sale in just 4 years for 8 figure sum to public company subsidiary
- A management led leveraged buyout of utility industry accessory equipment manufacturer which has grown exponentially
- Private equity investor in stock acquisition of privately held specialty apparel retailer from second generation ownership
- Private equity group in development and start-up of new concept fitness club that reached profitability in less than one year
- Sale of medical practice to roll-up acquirer
- Acquirer of chain of franchisor-owned national fast-food stores, which were turned around then later sold for multi-million dollar profit to another franchisee
Commercial Lending
- Multiple national, regional and community banks in commercial and industrial loan facilities, including swap and letter of credit transactions
- Regional bank in the documentation and negotiation of forbearance and workout terms for multi-million dollar credit facilities secured by commercial real estate properties located in Florida, Indiana, Kentucky and Alabama.
- Merchant builder in land acquisition and construction loans for development of multiple class A multi-family apartment projects
- Real estate “hard money” nationwide lender and developed overnight lending product employed during the financial crisis to facilitate multi-millions of dollars of short sales and property flips
Commercial Real Estate
- Investor group in acquisition of bank-owned shopping center with non-recourse funding from life insurance company
- Investor group in acquisition and redevelopment of shopping center, including ground lease to national franchisee
- Large home builder in numerous land acquisitions and lending facilities, including participated facilities
- Investor group in acquisition and operation of large portfolio of single family rental homes
- Office property real estate developer in land acquisition and joint venture with medical related tenant
- Developer of mixed-use office and residential condominium project
- Real estate investment group in acquisition of land and development and eventual sale of golf course/residential development
Bar Admissions
- Kentucky, 1984
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court Eastern District of Kentucky
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Kentucky
- Supreme Court of Kentucky
Education
- University of Kentucky College of Law, Lexington, Kentucky
- J.D. – 1984
- Honors: Order of the Coif
- Honors: With Distinction
- Law Journal: Kentucky Law Journal, Staff Member
- University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
- B.S. – 1981
- Major: Accounting
Honors and Awards
- Peer selected for inclusion in the 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, and 2016 edition of Best Lawyers in America® in the areas of: Corporate Law, Litigation – Real Estate, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Real Estate Law, Securities / Capital Markets Law
- AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell® for 2019 and has been since 2003.
- Kentucky Super Lawyer® 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016
- Top Attorneys in Kentucky 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016
- Order of the Coif
- Best Lawyers in America® 2020 and since 2007
- Professional Associations and Memberships
- Fayette County Bar Association, Member
- Kentucky Bar Association, Member
- American Bar Association, Member
- Commercial Property Association of Lexington, past-President
- Fayette Bar Foundation, Charters Fellow
Recognition
