Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Co-Head of the Firm’s Environmental Practice, Toby Chun has served as lead environmental counsel for many of his clients’ most environmentally challenging transactions. Toby’s practice focuses on managing the environmental aspects of a wide variety of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets offerings, acquisition financing, and real estate transactions. Drawing upon his experience working on numerous transactions spanning a diverse range of businesses and industries in the United States and around the world, Toby helps his clients achieve their business objectives by evaluating the environmental risks and liabilities associated with target companies and properties, working with environmental consultants to assess and appropriately contextualize known and potential liabilities, negotiating transaction documents on environmental terms consistent with his client’s goals, helping to optimize environmental insurance coverage, managing the resolution of environmental issues, and keeping abreast of the latest developments for emerging contaminants and other environmental topics.

Jie Min is Counsel (New York) in the Firm’s Corporate Department, focusing on mergers and acquisitions and private equity. She has advised corporate clients and private equity funds in connection with a variety of public and private merger and acquisition transactions, leveraged buyouts, minority and strategic investments, and other corporate matters across a broad range of industries.

Yang Wang is a Partner in the Beijing office of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. He represents private equity funds and corporate clients on various mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, corporate finance transactions and other general corporate matters. His recent transactions include advising Apax, Blackstone, Hillhouse, KKR, Macquarie, Primavera, Warburg Pincus and their respective portfolio companies in various leveraged buy-outs and private equity investments in Greater China of over US$20 billion in the aggregate, New Frontier Corporation in its US$1.3 billion acquisition of United Family Healthcare and the buyer consortium in the subsequent $1.6 billion privatization of United Family Healthcare, Xpeng in receiving approximately US$700 million minority investment by the Volkswagen Group and its Series C/C+ equity financing totaling more than US$1 billion, Ant Financial in its US$14 billion Series C equity financing, Alibaba in its US$4.3 billion investment in Suning, and ChemChina in its US$43 billion acquisition of Syngenta AG. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and English.