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Daniel Kahan is partner in King & Spalding’s Corporate, Finance and Investments Practice and co-leads both the firm’s Emerging Companies and Venture Capital Group and Fintech Group. His corporate transactional practice focuses on private equity and venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and spin-offs, debt and equity offerings, digital asset transactions, and corporate governance matters. Daniel also regularly advises clients in strategic technology and commercial transactions.
Daniel has worked with companies, entrepreneurs, private equity investors, venture capital investors, and strategic corporate investors and acquirers across a range of sectors, including enterprise software, artificial intelligence, fintech, blockchain, insurtech, cybersecurity, e-commerce, hardware, life sciences, healthcare, and travel.
Daniel is a frequent writer and speaker on startup, fintech, and digital asset topics. He has been recognized by Legal 500 in its Venture Capital and Emerging Companies category, with clients describing him as a “best-in-class attorney” who is “extremely knowledgeable, responsive, and efficient.”
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
A.B., Georgetown University
District of Columbia
Florida
Virginia
October 30, 2025
Ripple Labs Inc. Acquires Palisade Financial Group Ltd.
September 12, 2025
Dan Kahan, Tom Knox, Eric Nyman, Sophia Luckeneder and Alexander Bach Tran counsel Virtru, a Washington, D.C.-based data security company, on its $50M Series D financing
November 24, 2025
OCC Issues Interpretive Letter Permitting Banks to Engage in Additional Crypto Activities
July 23, 2025
Stablecoin Legislation Has Left The Stable
May 12, 2025
Exploring CorpFin’s New Perspective on Covered Stablecoins
October 30, 2025
Ripple Labs Inc. Acquires Palisade Financial Group Ltd.
September 12, 2025
Dan Kahan, Tom Knox, Eric Nyman, Sophia Luckeneder and Alexander Bach Tran counsel Virtru, a Washington, D.C.-based data security company, on its $50M Series D financing
November 24, 2025
OCC Issues Interpretive Letter Permitting Banks to Engage in Additional Crypto Activities
July 23, 2025
Stablecoin Legislation Has Left The Stable
May 12, 2025
Exploring CorpFin’s New Perspective on Covered Stablecoins
October 30, 2025
Ripple Labs Inc. Acquires Palisade Financial Group Ltd.
September 12, 2025
Dan Kahan, Tom Knox, Eric Nyman, Sophia Luckeneder and Alexander Bach Tran counsel Virtru, a Washington, D.C.-based data security company, on its $50M Series D financing
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
A.B., Georgetown University
District of Columbia
Florida
Virginia