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Mr Anthony Vernace
Work Department
Corporate/Mergers and Acquisitions
Position
Partner in the Firm’s Corporate Department. Specializes in the representation of private equity firms (and their portfolio companies) and public companies in mergers and acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, recapitalizations and other corporate transactions. Regularly counsels clients on corporate governance, shareholder activism and general corporate and securities law matters. Representations include Blackstone in numerous transactions, including its acquisitions of International Data Group, Phoenix Tower, QTS Realty, Ascend Learning, Chamberlain Group, Vungle, Gates Corporation and Travelport; investments in Advarra, Clari, MagicLab, First Eagle, Life Science Logistics, Array Technologies, Chainalysis, Patria, TaskUs, Simpli.fi, Crocs, Cryoport, Walker Edison, FireEye and Liftoff Mobile; and its sale of HealthMarkets to UnitedHealth; BC Partners in its acquisitions of GFL Environmental, Waste Industries, NAVEX, EAB and Chewy, Inc., and its sale of Teneo; Twitter in its announced acquisition by Elon Musk; Microsoft Corporation in its acquisitions of LinkedIn, Nuance, ZeniMax Media, Nokia Corporation’s phone business, Skype and GitHub, and its announced acquisition of Activision Blizzard; Apria in its sale to Owens & Minor; Genesee & Wyoming in several acquisitions and its sale to affiliates of Brookfield Infrastructure and GIC; and Blue Buffalo Pet Products in connection with its sale to General Mills.
Career
Joined Firm, 2005; Partner, 2014.
Memberships
New York City Bar Association; Excellence Community Schools, Member, Board of Directors.
Education
Columbia Law School (J.D., 2005), Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Columbia Business Law Review; Fordham University (B.S., summa cum laude, 2002).
Lawyer Rankings
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts
(Next Generation Partners)Praised for its ‘knowledge‘ and ‘leadership‘ within the private equity market, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is a regular advisor to many of the largest and most active funds in the market, handling bulge-bracket and volume mandates for the likes of Blackstone, Apollo, and Warburg Pincus, alongside many others. The firm advises on major buyouts and portfolio transactions, including several of the largest deals in the market, and is able to handle complex arrangements such as carve-outs, take-privates, and consortium arrangements such as Blackstone, Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman’s majority investment in Medline Industries, Inc. ‘True leader‘ Marni Lerner co-heads the team, and remains a leading name in the market, regularly handling high-profile deals such as KKR’s $4.7bn buyout of Global Atlantic, which also saw a key role for Katie Sudol. Co-head Elizabeth Cooper is noted for her active work on behalf of Blackstone, most notably the $5bn acquisition of The Chamberlain Group from Duchossois alongside Anthony Vernace, who continues to establish himself as a go-to for major private equity deals. The highly experienced Gary Horowitz
is a senior figure within the team who offers strategic guidance to funds clients, while Palo Alto-based Atif Azher is a key figure for the firm on the West Coast and particularly strong in tech sector transactions. Michael Holick has a growing profile within the market, and is increasingly active on behalf of many of the firm’s bulge-bracket clients and portfolio companies. Lawyers are in New York unless otherwise stated.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners - United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts
- Private equity buyouts - United States > M&A/corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Industry focus > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Industry focus > Insurance: advice to insurers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts
- 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
- Industry focus > Energy transactions: electric power
- Industry focus > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Industry focus > Energy: renewable/alternative power
- Tax > International tax
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Industry focus > Insurance: non-contentious
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- International Trade > International trade
- 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
- Finance > Project finance