Mr Lee Meyerson > Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Showcasing decades of experience in the structuring and negotiation of blockbuster M&A, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP remains a market leader, working with a broad range of strategic clients on a wealth of multi-billion dollar and headline-grabbing transactions, with particular strength in the life sciences, financial services, and technology sectors. Praised for its ‘exceptional level of knowledge‘, the team offers ‘practical advice‘ in the context of cross-border M&A matters, and is a prime destination for private equity firms and their portfolio companies. The ‘excellent‘ Eric Swedenburg is the go-to advisor to several public companies and special committees of boards of directors in M&A, spin-offs, joint ventures and shareholder activism; his practice also includes advising private equity firms and financial advisors in domestic and international transactions. Head of the financial institutions practice Lee Meyerson has an unrivalled reputation for complex mergers in the financial services space. Alan Klein‘s recent highlights include major transactions in the technology sector, such as Microsoft’s $75bn acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Strategic clients, investment banks and private equity firms routinely turn to Mario Ponce for representation in contested and negotiated M&A transactions, restructuring and governance issues. Anthony Vernace has worked on marquee deals on behalf of both public companies and private equity clients. All named attorneys are based in New York. Kathryn King Sudol is no longer at the firm.

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP‘s focus in the financial services regulation field lies in transactions in the space, an offering which is interlinked with the firm’s compliance experience, ensuring banks, insurance companies, securities and mortgage brokers, broker-dealers and credit card issuers are adept at addressing various requirements, including those enacted under the Dodd-Frank Act and Basel III. Lee Meyerson heads the practice from New York, specializing in M&A and capital markets transactions for financial institutions, while Elizabeth Cooper, another key figure from the firm’s executive committee, is recognized for her diverse M&A and corporate transactional knowledge, advising on joint ventures, acquisitions and recapitalizations. Ravi Purushotham is another active member, having been involved in the firm’s advice to TD Bank Group on its acquisition of First Horizon for $13.4bn.