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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Offices
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NEW YORK, NY 10017-3954
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Mr Eric Swedenburg

Work Department
Mergers and Acquisitions
Position
Co-Head of the Firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice, specializing in M&A and corporate and governance advice for corporations and private equity firms. Represented SiriusXM in numerous matters, including its acquisition of Pandora; Mars across a variety of transactions, including its strategic partnership with KIND; Change Healthcare in its pending sale to UnitedHeath Group; TransUnion in multiple acquisitions, including its acquisition of Neustar, BMC in its all-stock merger with Builders FirstSource; Blackstone in its advisory business spin-off; Vodafone in sale of its Verizon Wireless investment to Verizon; Wyeth in its sale to Pfizer.
Education
Cornell Law School (J.D., 1999; Order of the Coif), University of Virginia (B.S., 1993).
Lawyer Rankings
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
(Leading lawyers)Eric Swedenburg – Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP‘s team of ‘first-rate M&A practitioners‘ has a long-established reputation for expertise across a broad variety of corporate transactions including joint ventures, negotiated and unsolicited mergers and takeovers, minority investments and buyouts. Kathryn King Sudol is also an expert in respect of LBOs, going-private transactions, securities law and strategic investments, serving as practice co-head alongside Eric Swedenburg, who complements his transactional prowess with shareholder activism, corporate governance and general corporate knowhow. Lee Meyerson fronts the firm’s financial institutions practice, handling a plethora of sector-specific deals, while Alan Klein is significantly well-versed in fintech, technology and healthcare-related transactions. Mario Ponce is another integral name to the practice, leveraging three decades worth of experience. Referenced lawyers are based in New York.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading lawyers - United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- M&A: large deals ($1bn+) - 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