Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Chairman, Executive Committee: Alden Millard

Administrative Partners: Elizabeth Cooper, Tom Wuchenich

Number of partners worldwide: 280

Number of other lawyers worldwide: Over 1000

Firm Overview:

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is widely recognised as one of the pre-eminent law firms in the world. The firm devotes to its clients the legal talent and skill of over 1000 lawyers with a commitment to hard work, excellence and integrity. Clients around the world in a wide array of industries turn to Simpson Thacher for advice on their largest and most complex transactions and their most challenging legal disputes. The firm offers straightforward, pragmatic advice that recognises the business needs of clients in light of prevailing commercial and legal realities. The firm has played a substantial role in many of the most complex and noteworthy transactions and matters of the last decade. Simpson Thacher was selected as a ‘Practice Group of the Year’ in seven categories by Law360 in 2023, placing it among Law360’s ‘Firms of the Year’ for 2023.

Main Areas of Practice:

M&A:

Simpson Thacher is recognised globally for its role on behalf of parties on all sides of complex public and private M&A transactions, buyouts, stock and asset purchases, restructurings, spinoffs, joint ventures and contested transactions. Simpson Thacher also counsels clients on a broad range of corporate governance and control matters, including proxy contests and challenges by activist investors.

Private Equity:

Simpson Thacher is the world’s leading legal advisor in the private equity sector. Since the earliest days of private equity, clients have sought Simpson Thacher’s advice across the spectrum of private equity activity and the firm continues to be the firm of choice for many of the world’s most sophisticated private equity firms. Simpson Thacher’s scale and depth give it insight into the needs of every participant in private equity transactions: private equity sponsors, senior bank lenders, subordinated and bridge lenders, management and financial investors and underwriters. The firm has ranked among the top 2 law firms in Global Private Equity Announced Deals (by value) by Bloomberg in 10 of the past 15 years and has been named a ‘Private Equity Practice Group of the Year’ by Law360 for 13 consecutive years, including 2023.

Capital Markets:

Simpson Thacher is a leader in capital markets transactions worldwide. The capital markets practice is prized for its reach and range — from Manhattan to Silicon Valley, from London to Hong Kong, São Paulo and beyond. With a uniquely balanced practice, representing both issuers and underwriters, the firm enjoys a premier standing in advising on IPOs and other equity capital markets transactions, as well as high yield debt, convertible debt and investment grade offerings. Clients rely on Simpson Thacher’s mastery of intricate deal structuring and its experience across the full spectrum of products and industries. The firm was named a ‘Capital Markets Practice Group of the Year’ by Law360 in nine of the past ten years, including 2023.

Banking & Finance:

With a widely recognised top-level practice, Simpson Thacher counsels clients on their most sophisticated credit transactions. The firm has ranked #1 or #2 as legal counsel in each of the past 15 years based on overall financing volume by Loan Pricing Corporation. Clients rely on Simpson Thacher to advise on an array of sophisticated credit transactions and financial instruments at all levels of the corporate capital structure. The firm’s practices focus on many areas of the bank and syndicated lending market, including: leveraged finance, acquisition finance, including bridge financing, investment grade finance and project and energy finance.

Litigation:

Clients seek the practice’s advice on high-stakes litigation, cross-border disputes, as well as government and internal investigations in the Americas, Europe and Asia. The Firm offers a substantial bench of talent to resolve a wide array of legal issues. Clients benefit from the practice’s ability to leverage its broad experience and versatility to address their unique legal and business interests. The Firm has been named Litigation Department of the Year for Insurance (2018, 2020, and 2023) and Finance (2017, 2019, and 2022) by New York Law Journal; Insurance Practice Group of the Year (2023) and Technology Practice Group of the Year (2019, 2020 and 2022) by Law360; “Insurance Firm of the Year” (2013-2019, 2021 and 2022), “Securities Firm of the Year” (2018-2020), and “Pro Bono Firm of the Year” (2020 and 2023) by Benchmark Litigation; an “International Elite” Firm for Litigation (2023) by Latin Lawyer; a member of the “GIR 30” (2022) and the “GIR 100” (2015-2023); and awarded “Merger Control Matter of the Year – Americas” (2023) by Global Competition Review, among other accolades.

The litigation practice includes:

■ Antitrust and Trade Regulation

■ Appellate

■ Asia Litigation

■ Bankruptcy Litigation

■ Class Action Litigation

■ Complex Commercial Litigation

■ Equity and Civil Rights Reviews

■ ERISA Litigation

■ False Advertising Litigation

■ Funds Regulatory and Investigations

■ Government and Internal Investigations

■ Insurance and Reinsurance

■ Intellectual Property Litigation

■ International Arbitration

■ International Regulatory and Compliance

■ Mergers and Acquisitions Litigation

■ Product Liability and Mass Tort

■ Securities Litigation

■ Whistleblower and False Claims Act

Private Funds:

Simpson Thacher has one of the world’s pre-eminent private funds practices. The practice is global in scope and covers funds with a wide variety of investment criteria, including buyout, hedge, real estate, energy/infrastructure, credit, secondary, venture capital, fund-of-funds and other types of funds pursuing ‘alternative investment’ strategies. The team provides comprehensive advice to many of the world’s best-known institutional alternative asset managers, as well as smaller first-time funds and independent boutiques. We also have a dynamic, long-standing Registered Funds Practice with a focus on alternative asset managers seeking to access retail investor channels and advising on novel regulatory policy and strategy matters in the United States and Europe.

Real Estate:

The firm’s global real estate practice spans all areas of the real estate industry, including sophisticated real estate finance, sales and acquisitions, restructurings, real estate development, joint ventures, co-investments and partnerships. Simpson Thacher’s synthesis of real estate experience with its leading corporate practices — M&A, capital markets, banking and restructuring — allows the firm to offer institutional real estate investors a single source of advice for their most complex real estate matters. The Firm was named a ‘Real Estate Practice Group of the Year’ by Law360 in eight of the past ten years, including 2023.

Restructuring:

Simpson Thacher’s deep experience in some of the largest and most complex bankruptcies and out-of-court restructurings allows the firm to provide effective, strategic advice to clients across every part of the capital structure, from holders of senior secured debt, to unsecured and subordinated debt, to equity. In addition, the firm’s multidisciplinary Private Capital and Special Situations Investment Group executes complex and bespoke strategic credit, opportunistic equity and rescue finance transactions for a broad range of clients.

Energy & Infrastructure:

Energy companies and their lenders and investors turn to Simpson Thacher for cutting edge legal advice on a broad range of activities throughout the world. The firm is at the forefront of developments in the energy and infrastructure industries, giving the firm the unique perspective necessary to advise a diverse group of clients in all phases of their energy and infrastructure businesses. The practice’s clients work in electric power and transmission; energy transition, renewable and clean energy, including wind, solar and geothermal; electric, gas and water utilities; exploration and production, midstream, refining and petrochemicals, energy services and all segments of the infrastructure sector, including digital infrastructure, airports, ports, bridges and roads.