Our Team

Dave “DJ” Johnson

Dave “DJ” Johnson is an experienced capital markets and corporate restructuring lawyer with extensive global expertise. He has held significant leadership roles prior to his retirement as a partner at international law firm, O'Melveny & Myers LLP. Throughout his career, Johnson has advised issuers, investors, companies, and creditors in complex structured financings and corporate restructurings. He served as a member of O'Melveny's Policy Committee, Managing Partner of the Hong Kong office, Chair of the Transactions Department, and Co-Head of the Capital Markets Group. Additionally, he has been involved in major firm expansions and mergers, contributing to the firm’s growth. DJ holds a JD/MBA from the University of Virginia and has been recognized as one of the leading U.S. capital markets lawyers by Chambers Global Directory and Who’s Who Legal.

Dan Passage

Dan Passage has assisted clients with hundreds of securitizations, structured financings and forward flow transactions involving many “standard” and “esoteric” asset classes since 1992.  He has represented asset originators primarily, but also has represented many investment banks, fund managers and institutional investors in such transactions.  His work has included several “first of kind” and award winning securitizations in sectors including insurance products, residential and commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy assets, copyright and patent royalty receivables and digital cinema receivables.  Dan has received numerous recognitions including “Super Lawyer”, “Legal 500”, “Who’s Who Legal”  and similar designations.  He has led the securitization practices at two major international law firms, and has served on the executive committee of one of them.  He has also been an active member of the opinions committees at several law firms.  Dan has served as a board member of a mid-western manufacturing company with operations in the US and Russia, as an advisory board member for a commercial PACE originator, and as an independent director and independent manager for special purpose vehicles used as issuers, depositors and fund managers across a number of complex financings and securitizations.  He has also served on boards of not-for-profit organizations and on the “Citizens Advisory Committee” reviewing policies and procedures for a large metropolitan police department.