Daniel P. Tyrrell

Primary Focus & Experience

Mr. Tyrrell regularly represents private equity sponsors, asset managers, hedge funds, pension funds, portfolio companies, as well as other public and private companies in complex domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, structured and hybrid equity investments, minority investments, reorganizations and restructurings, and other corporate, financing and business combination transactions. Mr. Tyrrell also supports clients in fund-of-one transactions and fund manager seed investments.

Mr. Tyrrell’s practice spans a broad range of industries and focuses primarily on transactions involving power generation assets (including conventional, renewable and other energy transition matters), transmission assets, digital infrastructure and telecommunications assets (including data centers, fiber and spectrum) and aviation assets.

Mr. Tyrrell’s recent representations include:

• Apollo and Brookfield in their $28 billion acquisition, alongside Sumitomo Corporation and SMBC Aviation Capital, of Air Lease Corporation.
• Polaris Technology in the sale of its 440 MW digital infrastructure facility to Core Scientific.
• Blackstone Credit & Insurance in the launch of a new long-term global investment program with Dubai Aerospace Enterprise that targets a $1.6 billion annual deployment to invest in aircraft on lease to commercial airlines.
• Energy Capital Partners in its CAD$775 million preferred equity investment in Green Infrastructure Partners.
• Actis in its acquisition from Sacyr of a portfolio of operating toll roads in Colombia with a total transaction value of $1.6 billion.
• Blackstone in its investment in a strategic aircraft engine leasing partnership in Willis Lease Finance Corporation’s $1 billion inaugural fund to acquire current- and next-generation aircraft engine assets.
• iCON Infrastructure in its acquisition of equity interests from BBH Capital Partners and Allegheny Financial Group in Utility Pipeline Ltd., a provider of natural gas distribution and related services.
• One Investment Management as the anchor investor in FTAI Aviation’s inaugural $2 billion Strategic Capital Initiative fund.
• Grain Management, a leading global investment firm focused on digital infrastructure and global broadband, in its acquisition of T-Mobile's nationwide (US) 800 MHz spectrum portfolio for a combination of cash and Grain’s 600 MHz spectrum portfolio.
• Amber Infrastructure in its strategic combination with Boyd Watterson to create an investment manager with $35.7 billion in assets under management.
• Apollo Global Management in connection with the €1.5 billion investment by Apollo-managed affiliated entities, funds and clients into an Air France-KLM operating affiliate holding the trademark and most of the commercial partner contracts related to Air France and KLM’s joint loyalty program (Flying Blue).
• Onward Energy in the acquisition of 100% of the cash equity interests in various tax equity partnerships owned by affiliates of Global Atlantic Financial Group. The portfolio consists of an approximately 1,171 MWdc operating solar portfolio of 11 utility-scale solar PV projects located across eight states.
• Apollo Global Management in its agreement with Air France-KLM for Apollo-managed funds and entities to make a €500 million investment into an ad hoc operating affiliate of Air France that will own a pool of spare engines dedicated to the airline’s Engineering and Maintenance activities.
• Maverick Aviation Partnership LP, an investment vehicle managed by Carlyle Aviation Partners, in connection with its acquisition of AMCK Aviation’s portfolio of aircraft.
• IIF (JPM’s infrastructure fund) in its acquisition of Enstor Gas, the largest privately owned gas storage company in the US, from an affiliate of ArcLight Capital Partners.
• BCPG in its minority investment in two joint ventures, CCE AcquireCo and SFE AcquireCo, with Advanced Power; and in its minority investment in Carroll County Energy, a 700 MW natural gas-fired, combined-cycle power generation facility.
• Amp Solar Group Inc. in connection with the sale of its US-based renewable energy generation and battery storage business to a consortium comprising funds managed by Fiera Infrastructure Inc. and Palisade Infrastructure Group.
• ActOil Colorado, LLC, an affiliate of a leading US-based financial services organization that provides pension, insurance and investment products and related services, in the sale of its interests in Great Western Petroleum to PDC Energy, Inc. in a cash-and-stock deal valued at approximately $1.3 billion.
• Apollo Global Management and a group of institutional investors in entering into a strategic relationship with Anheuser-Busch InBev to acquire a 49.9% stake in Anheuser-Busch InBev’s US-based metal container plants for approximately $3 billion.
• Apollo Global Management in connection with its acquisition of GE Energy’s approximately $1 billion renewable energy equity investment portfolio.
• M&G Investment Management in its $300 million investment as sole limited partner in Sky Fund I and the simultaneous acquisition of an equity stake in SKY Leasing, the GP of Sky Fund I and subsequent flagship funds.
• A leading global insurance company in its investment in the inaugural and largest aircraft leasing fund targeting the acquisition of mid-life and current-generation aircraft.
• Altavair AirFinance, a leader in commercial aviation finance, in its $1 billion agreement to form a long-term partnership with a leading global investment firm, KKR & Co.
• Voyager Aviation Holdings, LLC in the completion of its exchange offer in an out-of-court financial restructuring transaction.
• Partners Group in connection with its equity investments in Silicon Ranch Corporation, one of the largest independent solar power producers in the US, and the subsequent sale of its ownership stake to Shell.
• Gila River Power in the sale of Unit 4 of the Gila River Power Station to the Salt River Project in Arizona.
• NongHyup Financial Group in its equity investment in and debt financing for the construction of the Cricket Valley Energy Center, a fully permitted 1,100 MW combined-cycle natural gas electric facility located in Dover, New York.
• Orchard Asset Management and Melody Capital Partners in their acquisition of the in-basin mining operations of Preferred Sands, a provider of sand-based proppant solutions to the oil and gas industry, as part of a broader restructuring of the Preferred Sands debt and equity structure.

Recognition & Accomplishments

In 2026, Mr. Tyrrell was recognized as part of Lawdragon’s “The Next Generation,” which honors legal talent shaping the future of the profession. Mr. Tyrrell graduated cum laude from Fordham Law School, where he was a Ruth Whitehead Whaley Scholar.