Mr Lee Meyerson > Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Lee Meyerson
Work Department
Corporate/Mergers and Acquisitions
Position
Head of global Financial Institutions Practice and previous head of global M&A practice. Representations include Toronto-Dominion Bank’s First Horizon acquisition ($13.4 billion) and TD Ameritrade/The Charles Schwab sale ($26 billion); U.S. Bancorp/Union Bank acquisition ($8 billion); TCF Financial/Chemical merger ($3.5 billion) and TCF/Huntington merger ($6 billion); ADS/Bread acquisition ($450 million); People’s United’s sale to M&T ($7.4 billion) and multiple regional bank acquisitions ($2 billion total); IBERIABANK/First Horizon merger ($3.9 billion); WMH/Nationstar Mortgage merger ($3.8 billion); Fifth Third/MB Financial merger ($4.7 billion); Synovus/FCB Financial acquisition ($2.9 billion); KeyCorp/First Niagara acquisition ($4.1 billion); Petrohawk/BHP sale ($15.1 billion); JPMorgan/Bank One merger ($58 billion) and commodities business sale ($3.5 billion); Mellon/BONY merger ($16.8 billion); Toronto-Dominion in $33 billion of U.S. acquisitions; U.S. Treasury $250 billion TARP; Schwab/optionsXpress acquisition ($1 billion). Practice includes financial institutions IPOs, securities offerings.
Career
Partner, 1989.
Education
B.A., magna cum laude, Duke University (1977); J.D., NYU Law School (1981), Law Review editor.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Financial services regulation
(Hall of Fame)Regulatory matters tied to transactions form the core of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP‘s work in this space, with the firm advising banks, private equity houses, payment processors and insurers on deals in the banking and fintech sectors among others. Alongside its transactional expertise, the team also assists with Dodd-Frank and Basel III compliance. Lee Meyerson leads the team out of New York, with a strong track record of overseeing major bank M&A deals, complemented by a capital markets practice that covers a range of debt and equity offerings. Elizabeth Cooper is the name of choice for a number of global private equity houses for major acquisitions and disposals, while Ravi Purushotham handles large bank M&A; both are based in New York. Amanda Allexon joined the firm’s Washington DC office from Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in April 2023, advising on the regulatory aspects of M&A transactions while also representing clients before the Federal Reserve, OFAC and FDIC. April 2024 saw the team further strengthened by the arrival from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP of Sven Mickisch, Matthew Nemeroff and Tim Gaffney in New York and Brian Christiansen in Washington DC.
United States > Finance > Fintech
(Firms to watch)Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has a deep bench of New York-based lawyers serving the firm’s financial institution, crypto and fintech clients, including practice head Lee Meyerson, Michael Osnato and Marc Berger.
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
(Hall of Fame)The ‘well-rounded‘ practice at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP remains a key player on the M&A market and continues to advise on a wide range of impactful and high-value strategic transactions. The team demonstrates significant expertise in representing clients from across the financial services, tech, and infrastructure spheres, with practice head Eric Swedenburg regularly assisting public and private corporations with a diverse array of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. The ‘reliable’ Mark Viera focuses on complex dispositions and leveraged buyouts, Lee Meyerson is noted for his expertise in connection with mergers in the financial services industry, and Alan Klein specializes in shareholder activism and corporate governance issues. Mario Ponce specialises in handling negotiated and hostile M&A transactions, and Elizabeth Cooper concentrates on recapitalizations and investments Katy Lukaszewski, who arrived from Sidley Austin LLP in September 2023, handles complex energy and infrastructure-based transactions. All attorneys mentioned are based in New York.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Hall of Fame United States > Finance > Financial services regulation
- M&A: large deals ($1bn+) United States > M&A/corporate and commercial
- Financial services regulation United States > Finance
- Firms to watch United States > Finance > Fintech
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade > CFIUS
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Tax > International tax
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Project finance
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Finance > Fintech