Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Derek W Baird
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UK
Private Equity: Buyouts - UK-wide
Band 3
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Practice Areas
Corporate Partner in the Firm’s London office advising private equity sponsors, portfolio companies and others on a range of public and private corporate transactions in the UK and around Europe.
Career
Qualified in 1992 becoming Partner in 1999 at Dickson Minto. Prior to joining Simpson Thacher in January 2013, he was a Partner at Allen & Overy LLP.
Personal
Admitted as a solicitor in Scotland in 1992 and in England & Wales in 2001. He received his undergraduate LLB Law degree in 1989 with First Class Honours and his Diploma in Legal Practice in 1990 from Glasgow University.
Derek W Baird
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
22 YEARS RANKED 
CityPoint
One Ropemaker Street
London
Greater London
UK
EC2Y 9HU
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