Mr Joseph Kaufman > Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is at the pinnacle of capital markets, representing issuers and underwriters on many of the headline deals in the sector. It has capitalised on its connections to private equity houses, corporate issuers and investment banks. This has earned a sizeable share of the SPAC market and continues to make progress in tech sector offerings. It advised Dell Technologies on its spin-off its 81% equity ownership interest in VMware, which included an $11.5bn to $12bn special cash dividend to all VMware stockholders immediately prior to the spin-off. It also represented the underwriters on Braze’s $572m IPO. The firm has multiple senior practitioners in the team, including outstanding lawyers Kenneth Wallach, Joshua Ford Bonnie, Joseph Kaufman and Roxane Reardon. Ryan Bekkerus and Hui Lin are also key names, along with William Brentani in Palo Alto. All named partners are based in New York unless stated otherwise.