Danae V. Grace

Danae Grace is a transactional lawyer whose practice encompasses a broad range of commercial and business matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, real estate, healthcare, contract drafting and negotiations, and general business transactions. 

Danae graduated with honors from the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where she was named to the Order of the Coif and earned American Jurisprudence awards in Mergers & Acquisitions, Agency & Partnership, Wind Law, and Alternative Dispute Resolution.

While in law school, Danae served as assistant managing editor for the Oklahoma Law Review. She is the author of “The Sky Is Not Falling: How the Anticlimactic Application of Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts to Oklahoma’s Laboratory Report Procedures Allows Room for Improvement,” 63 Oklahoma Law Review 383 (2011), for which she received the Gene and JoAnn Sharp Award for Best Law Review Note and the Frank C. Love Memorial Award for excellence in legal writing. She also served as an intern for the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals.

• Represented the Oklahoma Publishing Company, a 108-year-old family owned company, in the sale of 100% of its stock to Anschutz Corporation of Denver, Colorado. The assets of the Oklahoma Publishing Company at the time of the sale included The Oklahoman, the state's largest newspaper which was founded in 1903; NewsOK.com news website; an ownership interest in Dallas-based Pavestone, LLC, a leading manufacturer of concrete pavers and other landscaping materials; The Broadmoor Hotel, a 5-star, 5-diamond, 744-room resort in Colorado Springs, CO; Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway Company, the world's highest railway that runs to the top of Pike's Peak in the Rocky Mountains; an ownership interest in The Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort & Spa near Austin, TX; numerous other real estate holdings; an extensive art collection by Western Masters; and an interest in the nation's seventh largest cable broadband company.
• Represented a publicly traded bank in a $300 million divestiture of a performing, subperforming and non-performing commercial real estate loan portfolio and real estate owned (REO) properties.
• Represented an Oklahoma company in connection with its purchase of the assets of Dippin’ Dots, Inc. in a Section 363 bankruptcy sale for approximately $12 million funded by five separate loans from two lending institutions.
• Represented The Charles Machine Works, Inc., manufacturer of Ditch Witch underground construction equipment, in its acquisition of both American Augers, Inc. and Astec Underground’s Trencor product line of large trenchers from Astec Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTE).