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Jennifer Hobbs

+1-212-455-3524 jhobbs@stblaw.com

Work Department

Corporate/Banking and Credit

Position

Jennifer Hobbs, a Corporate Partner who is a member of the Executive Committee and Co-Administrative Partner of the Firm, focuses on acquisition finance and advises on a broad range of financings for many of the Firm’s leading private equity and corporate clients, including Silver Lake Partners, EQT Partners and the private equity group at Goldman Sachs, together with their portfolio companies. Jennifer has led some of the largest acquisition financings in history, including representing Silver Lake Partners and Michael Dell in the financing of their $27 billion take private of Dell, Inc. and later Dell itself in the debt financing for its $67 billion acquisition of EMC Corporation. She also represented Mars in the debt financing of its historic $22 billion acquisition of the Wm. Wrigley Company.

Education

B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, University of Texas (1989); Masters of International Affairs, Columbia University (1992); J.D., Law Review, New York University (1997).