Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Corporate/Private Equity

Co-Head of the Firm’s Private Equity Mergers and Acquisitions Practice, Marni Lerner has extensive experience representing a mix of private equity and corporate clients, including family and founder-owned companies, in mergers and acquisitions, public and private divestitures, strategic investments and securities law matters. In her more than 25 years of corporate deal making, Marni has consistently worked on a variety of significant, complex and record-breaking transactions for a wide range of clients. Her representations have included KKR and its portfolio companies on transactions involving Simon & Schuster, Omnissa, Instructure, Neighborly, Teaching Strategies, OverDrive Holdings, BMC, Del Monte Foods and Internet Brands. Marni has also advised Charlesbank Capital Partners, Integrum and Butterfly Equity, among others.

Joined Firm, 1991; Partner, 2000.

New York City Bar Association.

J.D., Harvard Law School, 1991 (cum laude); B.A., Amherst College, 1988 (summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa).