The Firm is representing Paramount Global in connection with its proposed merger with Skydance Media, LLC. The terms of the agreement value the combined company at an enterprise value of approximately $28 billion. Completion of the transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions, and the transaction is expected to close in 2025. Paramount is a leading global media, streaming and entertainment company that creates premium content and experiences worldwide. Driven by iconic consumer brands, Paramount’s portfolio includes CBS, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount and Pluto TV. Skydance is the diversified media company founded by David Ellison in 2010 to create high-quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences. The Simpson Thacher team included: Eric Swedenburg, Katherine Krause, Elias Rosenblatt, Muaaz Maksud and Millen Trujillo (M&A); Jamin Koslowe, Kristy Fields and Guanxiong Xu (ECEB); Jonathan Goldstein, Andrew Mandelbaum, Emma Wang and Jiha Min (Tax); Brian Steinhardt and Patrick Wolff (Banking & Credit); Hui Lin (Capital Markets); Jonathan Lindabury and Nathan Utterback (Derivatives); Lori Lesser and Bobbie Burrows (Intellectual Property); Sara Razi and Daniel Owsley (Antitrust); Michael Isby (Environmental); and Krista McManus and Dennis Loiacono (Real Estate).
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is one of the world’s leading international law firms. The Firm was established in 1884 and has more than 1,300 lawyers. Headquartered in New York with offices in Beijing, Brussels, Hong Kong, Houston, 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. This website contains attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
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Partners Leah Malone, Martin Bell, Stephen Blake and Linton Mann III, and Counsel Emily Holland authored an article titled, “What the Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Decision Means for ESG, and Other Key Trends,” which was published by the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. The article outlined several key decisions and developments impacting the ESG space, including the recent Supreme Court decision overruling the Chevron deference. The article further addressed how these decisions may more broadly impact companies’ strategic considerations and the future of environmental and ESG regulation. Read More: https://lnkd.in/eR-MjqVv
Simpson Thacher Attorneys Author Article on Key Decisions Shaping the ESG Landscape
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Simpson Thacher is advising Webster Financial Corporation, the holding company for Webster Bank, N.A., on a strategic transaction that involves the formation of a private credit joint venture with Marathon Asset Management. The joint venture will deliver direct lending solutions to sponsor-backed middle market companies. The partnership combines each firm’s credit expertise, private equity sponsor relationships and standing in the middle market with Marathon’s 26-plus years of experience in asset management and Webster Bank’s full banking product suite that serves companies primarily in the middle market. Webster Financial Corporation is the holding company for Webster Bank, a leading commercial bank in the Northeast that provides a wide range of digital and traditional financial solutions across three differentiated lines of business: Commercial Banking, Consumer Banking and Healthcare Financial Services, one of the country's largest providers of employee benefits and administration of medical insurance claim settlements solutions. Marathon is a leading global credit manager with $23 billion of capital under management. The Simpson Thacher team includes Jaclyn Starr, Thomas Bell and Benjamin Cermak (Funds); Amanda Allexon and Spencer Sloan (Financial Institutions); and Andrew Purcell (Tax).
Webster Bank Forms Private Credit Joint Venture With Marathon Asset Management
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Simpson Thacher is representing EQT’s BPEA Private Equity Fund VIII in connection with its recommended cash acquisition of the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Keywords Studios Plc at 2,450 pence per share, which was announced on 3 July 2024. The acquisition values Keywords’ share capital at £2.1 billion on a fully diluted basis, and implies an enterprise value of approximately £2.2 billion. The acquisition is expected to be implemented by way of scheme of arrangement, subject to the approval of Keywords’ shareholders. CPP Investments and Temasek will co-invest alongside EQT. Keywords is admitted to trading on AIM and is a global provider of fully integrated creative and technology-enabled solutions to the video games and entertainment industries. The Simpson Thacher team includes Ben Spiers, Lucy Gillett, Jewel Zhu, James Evelegh, Laura Harris, Beanka Chiang and Andrew Mon (Corporate – U.K.), and Antonio Bavasso and Josh Buckland (Antitrust).
EQT Announces Recommended Cash Acquisition of Keywords Studios Plc
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Litigation Partner Chet Kronenberg, who is President of the Board of Directors of LevittQuinn Family Law Center, co-authored an article with LevittQuinn’s Director of Legal Services Lucia Reyes in the Daily Journal titled, “Why Legal Counsel Is Crucial In Ensuring Successful Permanent Placement of Children.” The article explores the recent California Court of Appeals decision in In Re: Andrew M., concerning whether to terminate the parental rights of a 5-year-old’s biological parents when his long-term foster parents sought to adopt him. The article further details the critical role counsel play not just for foster parents, but also in non-dependency cases, in advocating for permanent placement of children and establishing long-term stability and security. Read More: https://lnkd.in/enf__-Ea
Chet Kronenberg Co-Authors Daily Journal Article on Importance of Counsel in Permanent Placement of Children
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Simpson Thacher advised New Mountain Capital in the formation and raising of New Mountain Partners VII, L.P. Fund VII closed at its hard cap of $14 billion in third party capital commitments, and at $15.4 billion in aggregate capital commitments, including the capital commitments from New Mountain and its professionals. New Mountain Capital is a leading growth-oriented alternative investment firm headquartered in New York. The firm currently manages private equity, strategic equity, credit and net lease real estate funds with nearly $55 billion in assets under management. The Simpson Thacher team includes David Greene, Matthew Leighton and David Whelan (Funds); Andrew Purcell (Tax); and Mary Touchstone and Ashley Gold (Credit); as well as Catherine Kidd, Amanda Ng, Juhi Kaushik, Jacob Fritts, Joshua Katz, Sean Park, Katie Lunt, Emma Snover, Max Tawil, Anna-Carolina Zwinge, Sam Boorstein, E.R Rolwes, Benjamin Blinken, Conner Johnson, Vihan Khanna, Gavin Jaco, Nate Yang, Emily Owen, Kunzhao Cao, Angela Yu, Corinne Belkoff, Cheryl Daly, Maria Fernandez Garcia, Siqi Zhao, Maurice Golding, Tobi Olajubu, Tom Fu, Craig Wickham and Alexandra Speiss (Funds); Adam Hersch and Shareef Salfity (Tax); Jeanne Annarumma (ECEB); Jessica Paletsky, Jacklyn Kornstein and Bret Johanneson (Credit); and Nadia Bonnet and Elena Klayn (Luxembourg).
New Mountain Capital Completes $15.4 Billion Fundraising
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Simpson Thacher is representing BTG Pactual in connection with its proposed acquisition of M.Y. Safra Bank, FSB. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions. BTG Pactual is the largest investment bank in Latin America and operates across several segments including Investment Banking, Corporate Lending and Business Banking, Sales and Trading, Wealth Management and Personal Banking and Asset Management. In the U.S. it currently provides asset management and broker dealer services to individual and institutional clients. At the end of March 2024, BTG Pactual managed more than USD 327.4 billion of assets for clients worldwide, with equity of USD 10.4 billion and total assets of USD 113.6 billion. M.Y. Safra is a Federal Savings Bank that is privately owned and headquartered in New York City, where it focuses on providing innovative products and solutions to personal, business and private banking clients, as well as lending in the commercial and residential real estate markets. Clients include high net worth individuals, family offices and businesses. The Simpson Thacher team includes Grenfel Calheiros, Ravi Purushotham, Malik Ladhani, Isaac Cattan and Doug Ogata (M&A); Lee Meyerson, Amanda Allexon, Spencer Sloan and James Fine (Bank Regulatory); Jeannine McSweeney, Laura Gallo and Mtume Sangiewa (Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits); Jonathan Goldstein and Adam Hersch (Tax); Lori Lesser, Corina Holland and Sarika Pandrangi (Intellectual Property); and Krista McManus (Real Estate).
BTG Pactual to Acquire M.Y. Safra Bank
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Partner Meaghan Kelly was featured in a Global Investigations Review (GIR) article titled, “The 40 Under 40 in 2020: Where Are They Now,” which highlighted the recent successes of individuals who were named to the GIR 2020 “40 Under 40” list profiling leading young investigations specialists from around the world. Meaghan, who is a key member of the Firm’s Funds Regulatory and Investigations Practice and has carved out a unique niche advising private equity sponsors, hedge funds, venture capital funds, credit funds, infra funds, real estate funds and registered funds on a host of SEC regulatory matters, was recognized in the latest feature as being elevated to partner in 2021. Read More: https://lnkd.in/dcw3bEkg
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Clare Gaskell was recognized for her work advising KKR on several market-shaping deals, including its recommended offer for Smart Metering Systems and its sale of a majority stake in A-Gas, among other achievements. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eAR4fjS4
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The Firm is representing Blackstone in connection with its announced tender offer and subsequent related transactions to take Infocom Corporation (“Infocom”) private. Infocom, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, is a leading provider of digital comics in Japan and its IT services business provides services to hospitals and other general corporations. Infocom’s Mecha Comic is one of Japan’s top providers of online comics and the market leader for Japanese women 30 years old and above. Blackstone commenced the tender offer on June 19, 2024. The Simpson Thacher team includes Anthony King, Sonya Ho and Tiffany Shih (M&A); Etienne Renaudeau and Pauline Patat (Antitrust); Shahpur Kabraji, Andrew Bechtel, Alvin Kwong and Chenyu Cui (Finance); Meredith Jones and Jenna Al-Malawi (Tax); and Steven Klar, Peter Thomas, Richard Zhang and Jean-Baptiste Rioual (Funds).
Simpson Thacher Represents Blackstone in Tender Offer to Acquire Infocom Corporation
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