Daniel Hall

Daniel Hall is a founding partner of Pacific & Plains Capital, a Dallas-based alternative credit investment firm.  He serves on its three-person governing Executive Committee, its Investment Committee and its ESG Screening Committee overseeing all of the firm’s investment activities, capital commitments, and investment strategy. 

Mr. Hall began his investment career at Ares Management, a Los Angeles based alternative asset management firm where he worked for over ten years until 2019.  At Ares, he was a partner, working with the Global Credit Group and the Corporate Strategy Group as a senior executive focused on credit, execution of fund raises and strategic matters.  Mr. Hall was also a founding member of the Insurance Solutions Group at Ares Management.

During his time at Ares Management, Mr. Hall was responsible for leading the establishment and execution of all funds and fund products that invest in leveraged loans, high yield bonds, private credit, distressed credit, special situations and public and private asset backed products including collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), co-mingled funds, funds of one, separately managed accounts and publicly traded and non-traded closed end funds. Mr. Hall also was significantly involved in resolving credit issues relating to assets as well as in- and out-of-court reorganizations and bankruptcy proceedings pertaining to distressed assets. During his tenure, he also led  numerous acquisitions of other asset managers and assets in the CLO and wider credit sector.  Mr. Hall has been a credit professional for over 20 years in both Europe and the U.S. and is regularly involved with industry groups that seek to advocate for investor and manager interests with regulators and government. In addition, Mr. Hall was active in Ares Management's strategy team and corporate management, as part of its Insurance Solutions Group which is mandated to find organic and acquisition-driven opportunities in the insurance sector for both Ares Management and its clients, culminating in the establishment of the Aspida life insurance platform in 2019 in which Mr. Hall was a key team member.  

Between 2001 and 2009 Mr. Hall was an attorney, first at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP in both the London and Moscow offices and then at Clifford Chance LLP in both the London and New York offices.  During this period Mr. Hall was focused on leveraged finance, mergers and acquisitions, fund formation, CLO issuance and other securitization and asset backed securities issuance.  

Mr. Hall is a graduate of the University of Liverpool, where he earned a Bachelor Laws with Honors and the College of Law, Chester where he earned a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice with Distinction.