Firm Description

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is one of the world’s leading international law firms. The Firm was established in 1884 and has more than 800 lawyers. Headquartered in New York City with offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, São Paulo, Tokyo and Washington, D.C., the Firm provides coordinated legal advice and transactional capability to clients around the globe.

Clients in a wide array of industries and in jurisdictions around the world turn to Simpson Thacher to help them address their evolving business challenges. We devote our full legal talent and skill on behalf of our clients with a commitment to hard work, excellence and integrity. Building on over 125 years of experience, the Firm advises many of the largest corporations in the world and has played a substantial role in many of the most complex and noteworthy transactions of the last decade.

Simpson Thacher is one of the world’s preeminent law firms in public and private mergers and acquisitions. The Firm is recognized globally for its role on behalf of parties on all sides of complex merger and acquisition transactions and is the worldwide leader in private equity legal representation, offering comprehensive service to its clients on all aspects of buyouts, as well as on minority investments, restructurings, spin-offs, joint ventures, contested transactions and fund formation. We have been a pioneer in the development of various acquisition and financing techniques in the leveraged buyout field and have engineered many of the largest leveraged acquisitions ever completed.